C&C The First Decade / Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge

Hey all,
I have been wracking my brain for weeks now, trying to play C&C First Decade with Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge over the LAN, it will only run on IPX networking which I could setup with 2x XP machines, I have Vista Ultimate on my PC, and XP on another, I found some drivers for IPX to work on Vista, didn't work ... So I loaded Hamachi which had built-in IPX support. Now when I open RA2, it no longer says IPX unavailable, it shows 00 00 00... So it can see my Hamachi adapter with IPX support, great! The other XP machine has Hamachi installed, and they are both VPN'd (Connected) on the same Hamachi Network. They don't see each other... The XP machine shows a few IPX networks, I have tried switching to them all, even put the Hamachi adapter and the LAN adapter to the top of the preferred networks list. This was sort-of a breeze with both XP, but with Vista it's looking to be a bit tricky. I have no firewalls running on either machine and I am pretty cluey when it comes to networking (TCP/IP that is) ... So in conslusion, HELP!! Hehe

Thanks all, hope to hear from someone soon!

Restore vista computer?

To what? XP? No way, Vista Ultimate is.. Well the name says it all, it's Ultimate! For the sake of playing RA2 it doesn't sum up going backwards. There has to be a way to do it. I am not %100 about how IPX works, but there has to be an emulator, meaning both machines communicate via TCP/IP, then translate to IPX. Surely it can't be too hard? Says me, the guy asking for help! :P

I never got Yuri's revenge working either from the Decade tribute DVD U bought....

OK, well I did a bit more searching around, I found Kali, I loaded it then it said I have to pay? BAH! I think it's a rip-off of GameSpy, so I loaded GameSpy, Great, both PC's could see the lobby and I created a game. ... LAUNCH ... Then once the games are started, they just open up to the Main Menu of the game. I looked at the listed IPX network adapter whilst in the game then, it looked like it ignored all the other IPX addresses but GameSpy's software driven adapter, shows 0's and F's, "00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff" - If it's any help to people looking for the answers!

Hi Rome,

Theres two things you can try...

PvPGN (Player vs Player Gaming Network) is a gaming network server emulation project supporting C&C also RA2 Yuri's revenge,
PvPGN :: What is PvPGN?

This is for installing IPX on Vista 32bit...
Starbase01.com | IT (PC related) | IPX/SPX in Vista

Let us know if you have any success..

Steven

They sound promising, I'll have to give it a go when I get home, I'll let you know how I travel!

Thanks a million!