Star Wars Empire at War LAN game fix

Aug 01, '07 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: mlsmithjr

After about 30 minutes of frustration in trying to get Empire at War to host a game on my LAN, including patching both machines to the latest version, I finally figured out the cause of the problem. For me, it was the Parallels en2 and en3 network drivers. Empire at War was defaulting to the last active ethernet driver that had an address, and it happened to be en3 (with the fake Parallels address).

The fix is simple: To play the game, disable en2 and en3 and enable when finished. You can do so in Terminal with these commands:

# To disable:
$ sudo ifconfig en2 down
$ sudo ifconfig en3 down

# To enable:
$ sudo ifconfig en2 up
$ sudo ifconfig en3 up
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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