Far Cry 2 and Hamachi Multiplayer LAN

SET UP HAMACHI WITH FAR CRY 2 TO PLAY MULTIPLAYER !
What do you need to know first ?
These settings worked for me.
I have WINDOWS XP and HAMACHI VERSION 1.0.3.0
You can try these settings with WINDOWS VISTA but i'm not sure if it works.

How to do it?

Download Hamachi

Once downloaded and installed properly, go to "START" >> "Control Panel" >> "Network Connections"

In the window "Network Connections", you see on top the option "Advanced". ("Advanced is where "File","Edit","View", etc is) In the drop-down menu "Advanced", you see "Advanced Settings..."

In "Advanced Settings..." window you see the tab "Adapters and Bindings". You will also see a list of connections, such as Local Area Connection and/or Wireless Network Connection and/or Hamachi.

Select Hamachi in that list. Whilst Hamachi is selected, you see on the right, an arrow UP and arrow DOWN.
Well, once you have selected Hamachi, press the arrow UP until hamachi is on top of the list.

Now press the OK button of the window and RESTART your pc.


After your pc is restarted, start up Hamachi (in most cases Hamachi is already started up automatically).
Once hamachi is started up, then you have to the "Settings" OR "Status and Configuration". (You can access the settings by pressing that RIGHT BOTTOM button that looks like a star or sun)
Once you got into your configuration, the only thing you have to check is the "connection settings of hamachi".

How do you check your connection settings?
If you opened up the configuration of hamachi, then you see a window popping up. On the left, you see that you can select different tabs. On default, you are already in the right tab named "Status" (The icon is a blue ball with white a exclamation mark).
In this tab you will see "Connection" typed in bold and a button underneath it, that says something like "Detailed configuration ..". Click "Detailed configuration ..".
A window of the "Connection Preferences" pops up.

The settings should be as following:

"Connecting via Proxy" >> "Use Internet Browser settings"
"Authentication" >> leave that blank
"Connecting through NAT" Thick box of both UDP and TCP. Give UDP port number 9004 and TCP port number 9004 as well !
I have turned on these ports because i have a router. So you might open up the ports in your router as well.
Press the OK button and you are all set up !!

We are almost there!

Start up Far Cry 2
Go to "Multiplayer" and "Create" an OFFLINE account !
You should know that hamachi is used to make your computer think that you only have a LAN (Local Area Network) connection. So, after account creation, you choose "LAN" and then you get the option to choose to "Create" of "Join" a LAN game.
Let's say on hamachi there's people that said they will host a game Far Cry 2 with TeamDeathmatch, then you have to choose, JOIN Lan Game.
After that you get a list of things.
The first thing you see is: "Game Mode". The default is on "Deathmatch". Change it to "Team Deathmatch" first and then click on "List Matches".
You will be seeing a list of available servers that are currently running under TeamDeathmatch mode !
Exclamation It is very important that you change the game mode first for the servers of the gametype you want to find. If you can't find any TeamDeathmatch servers, then you have to go back to previous screen and change the game mode to Deathmatch or Capture the Diamonds and click on "List Matches".

For people that want to find servers running with hamachi for Far Cry 2, i found a link that you check to know where you can find hamachi server games.
This link provides you all the servers available

Just click on one of the network names and it opens up automatically with hamachi.


Have fun, play fair and see you on the battlefield !

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