(Settlers III)On Win 8 and 7 various bugs while playing multiplayer between those two systems | Forums

[ceiJee]

Hi guys

today me and my girlfriend tried to play S3 on two laptops with Wind 8 and Win 7 on it. We got a game started, playing against 3 CP without a problem, but after 15 mins we both were kicked out of the match and we tried to load a safegame which i made. After that we had no chance to load, join or start a saved multiplayer game again. We tried all different ways we had, saving on both laptops, tried to load multiplayer games on both laptops etc. First time we could join into the same lobby, but after starting the game, the game crashed on the Win 7 Laptop. After that there where no way to get into the same lobby, the game always told us that our savegames or damaged. After all we could not play a multiplayer game and went with a few ours kampange on S6. Some of you got same issues? Maybe this problem is caused because on Win 7 and 8? I am a little sad and angry that it doesnt worked because i hab the hope that the game finally, after 15 years, would work without multiplayer problems. I hope you will fix those problems in the future!

Best regards
ceiJee

[edejay]

Hi !

We have exactly the same problems !
Yesterday we played with friends, we were 4 human players + 2 computers. After a while, we saw one of us leave the game when it was not. It was impossible to keep playing !
We wanted to resume the game with a backup. It was impossible for everyone to connect to it. Some had "damaged file", or "non-existent backup", etc.
Today, I played with my wife against 5 computers. Everything was fine, then suddenly, desynchronization ...
It's unbearable ... Buy a game in 2018-2019 with which we can not even play in multiplayer ... Scandalous ... I really hope that these problem of backup, stability of the game and desynchronization will be corrected. For now, I just feel like I've been ripped off ! Regarding the stability of the game, I feel that it is even worse than the old version.

[bastol85]

Same issues here, had win 10 + win 7 computers in game, although I don't think it's OS related.

We could never load multiplayer saved games, be it auto or manual saves.