Fair Multiplayer (as mentioned above), game glitches can ruin the fun, especially for active, competitive players.Recently an option to 'disable fullscreen optimizations' was added to Maximization Helper to fix issues created by Microsoft in version 1803. With Minor Updates it's possible to add required fixes as fast as possible. New Windows 10 builds usually ruin the compatibility, so it's impossible to maximize the game.Unfortunately, disallowing older version is the only possible way to keep Multiplayer games bug-free, without Out of Sync errors.Ī few reasons why Minor Updates are important: When a version is incompatible, you won't be able to log in to the Lobby, because a message asking to install the newest version will be displayed. Theoretically most of Minor Updates are 'Optional' (allowing you to play Multiplayer with people who didn't install the newest Minor Version), however during last months most of Minor Updates have status 'Important', because core game files had to be modified (I was fighting with cheats/glitches on Multiplayer, to keep it fair without punishing players).

Some more information about Minor Updates are present on this website: If you accept, a mini-installer is launched and downloads updated files (usually 10-20MB per update). When a new Minor Version is released, the Launcher shows a notification in the News tab (and a Toast Notification on Windows 8+). A long while ago I moved to regular Minor Updates which are usually released every month (or instantly in case of serious problems). The installer on the EE2.eu website always contains the newest 'minor' version. Also, the Lobby detects if players are on the same local network and automatically establishes connection over local network, so ping is the same as in 'LAN' tab (which doesn't always work). With time, the Lobby has been improved to use MonaNAT® ( ) which in case of connection failure (when both players are behind Symmetric NAT.) uses EE2.eu Servers to relay traffic between players. Please watch this video to learn how to do it: In October 2015, Unofficial Patch 1.5.5 has been released and re-enabled the in-game Multiplayer Lobby, so it's now possible to play the same way as on the old GameSpy Server (which was shut down in 2012). With time Unofficial Patch 1.4, then 1.5 was released with many more improvements. In Unofficial Patch 1.3 (released around ~2011) this issue has been resolved. It always caused problems where players couldn't play with each other on Multiplayer.

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Empire earth 2 multiplayer