Hamachi Talk:Gaming

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Does anyone know how to configure "Halo 2" or "Halo" with Hamachi?

Screenshot?

hi,

"Some games are not intelligent when it comes to having more than one network adapter, and you may need to re-prioritize your network adapter order. Go into Network Connections > Advanced > Advanced Settings > and put the Hamachi adapter at the top of the list."

Can anyone make screenshots? Is it in XP or Vista?

EDIT: added screens: Windows Vista: http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-vista/change-network-adapter-priority-in-vista/ and Windows 2000/XP: http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/change-network-adapter-priority-in-xp2000/)

XP and Vista issues

We found out some interesting things about Hamachi gaming with XP and Vista. First is, you don't have to host games with Vista, when Vista clients are used. It also works with XP serving a game. But you have to configure Hamachi on the Vista client "properly". Most of the things are already written in this article (like setting automatic metric and 5.0.0.1 as gateway, putting the Hamachi connection top of all connections,...), but this only may help with Vista 32bit. We had the issue, that all these setting do not help with Vista 64bit. Here you have to set the metric of the broadcast adress. We sniffed the network-traffic with a linux hamachi client, listening to broadcasts. And the Vista 64bit client did not send any udp broadcast via his hamachi interface. It looks like the metric is wrong for the broadcast adress (255.255.255.255). Now just get the number of the hamachi interface (command line: netstat -rn) and change the metric:

route change 255.255.255.255 mask 255.255.255.255 <your hamachi ip> metric 1 if <number of your hamachi interface>

This did the trick, and the Vista 64bit client could see and join games, even hosted on a XP machine. HTH Corben 07:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

HamachiGamingFix download crashes

Using the HamachiGamingFix download from Rapidshare, crashes after I select the Hamachi IP.

Each and every time. Thoughts?

Here's the error that comes up in the command prompt.

Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range.
Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
  at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(ExceptionArgument argument, ExceptionResource resource)
  at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException()
  at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
  at HamachiWrongInterfaceBroadcastPcapHack.Program.Main(String[] args)

Hamachi and Metrics

Hello I just wanted to verify some stuff with the way metrics and Hamachi. My experience with metrics with Hamachi is that they should not be set to automatic. My experience with games is that there are a large amount of games such as Call of Duty 5 Co-Op that seem to use the Metric over the Priority, at least in Vista and 7 anyway. I have found it's best to add the gateway for hamachi, "5.0.0.1" and set the metrics so that when you use the console "route print" command Your Hamachi IP is lower than your LAN IP except on the gateway where it's the opposite.

I created a screenshot [1] of what I use there. I am have some issues with one game at the moment Supreme Commander : Forged Alliance doesn't want to show up in the browser but CoD 5 Co-op is working.

Vergil TDS 16:01, 31 December 2009 (UTC)