How to play NFS:MW on lan

[vamsi_krishna]

Hello,

I have purchased NFS MOSTWANTED BE from ebay three moths ago, and i installed on my pc and my brother's(we are in same house). we have used D-link router to share 386kbps tata broadband connection. Now, we both of us want to play as apponents. I dont know how to configure or ping the computer. I know there are quite intellectual guys who knows about this. Please help me. If you tell me step by step i will be more thankful.

Query:

Is this official what i am doing?(To install same copy on two computers).

[Ethan_Hunt]

Hi Krishna. What you'll need to do is download the V1.3 patch first. Apply it on both the machines. Now the trick is to assign the following in your LAN properties:
Eg:
(For Host PC)

IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (or whatever is picked up as the default one)
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1

Select Use Preferred DNS and then insert the following:
Preferred DNS: 192.168.0.1

Then click on advanced and select WINS tile and type:
Add>type 192.168.0.1>Add

Finally make sure the firewall is off from the LAN properties.

(For Client PC)

IP Address: 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (or whatever is picked up as the default one)
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1

Select Use Preferred DNS and then insert the following:
Preferred DNS: 192.168.0.1

Then click on advanced and select WINS tile and type:
Add>type 192.168.0.1>Add

Finally make sure the firewall is off from the LAN properties here as well.

Now host the game & check if it gets picked up on both PC's or not. I had tried it in a local cafe where the gateway of the host PC was the same for all PC's & it detected every connection just fine. But while trying to connect on our local LAN it didn't work. I have to try this trick myself but will be worth a shot. Let me know if it works.

I dont know how to configure or ping the computer

It's pretty easy. If you have shared the connection via a standard ethernet cable then you should have assigned IP addresses to each computers. Just check the IP address of one of the PC & ping that IP from the second machine to check physical connectivity. To ping a machine, Click on Start menu - RUN & then type in cmd. Once in the command prompt type 'ping 192.168.1.1' (or whatever the IP of the other machine is) & hit enter. If you get a reply then it's properly connected. If it says timed out then there is a problem in the connection.

Is this official what i am doing?(To install same copy on two computers).

Technically it's not possible to play online with same copy on 2 different machines simultaneously as you can't share the same CD key. Unless you have applied a no-dvd check to it or if it's a multi-license copy, which I doubt it is. You need 2 different CD keys for every session. So yeah it's not really "official".

[vamsi_krishna]

Soooo....... shy to say. I've applied NO-dvd patch.

And thanks your tutorial,tip worked.

Thanks once again.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Good on you mate. I'll probably be trying it out on my LAN tonight.

[Faun]

i remember playing it with my bro

[Ethan_Hunt]

Yeah. It's totally fun. I mean the game isn't too hard on the resources either so it runs smoothly even on a normal onboard. I used to play for hours in a cafe before I got my own rig.