Multiplayer In Close Combat - Cross of Iron

[thebawss]

This topic has been covered a lot, but in close combat - cross of iron I have tried using gameranger and opening ports, but neither seem to work.

GameRanger Problem - It will only recognize a file that is named CC3 and the file to open the game is cce meaning I cannot add the game

Port Forwarding - I have opened the ports needed (47624TCP 2300-2400TCP 1944TCP 6073TCP) and the game will not find my partner in the game of either one of us hosts

Please give some information as we have played games like Longest Day, Last Stand Arnhem, and Wacht Am Rhein using Port Forwarding, but Game Ranger has never worked for us.

[SteveMcClaire]

Cross of Iron does use an older version of DirectPlay than the other Close Combat updates, so there could be some differences in getting connected.

For best results, make sure both the host and the client have their ports open and forwarded.

Assuming you're using Windows 10 or later, make sure you have DirectPlay enabled (I would assume you do if other CC games work, but worth checking.) https://windowsreport.com/enable-directplay-windows-10/

Check Windows firewall to make sure CCE.EXE from Cross of Iron is allowed through Windows firewall (for both players.)

For testing purposes only, you could both turn off Windows firewall and DMZ your router, then try to connect. If you're able to do so you at least know that you're using the correct IP address and something in the router or firewall is blocking you. Then it is a matter of enabling one thing at a time to find out which it is.

[thebawss]

Ok so I have tried playing both LAN and not with both computers with open ports, could the problem possibly be that my partner is running the game in win 7 and I am on 11?

[SteveMcClaire]

Hi thebawss -- I don't know of any Windows 7 specific issues with Cross of Iron multi-player. As long as you're using the correct IP address, if you can't connect something is preventing the game from finding the port/ip address, which almost always comes down to router port/forwarding or Windows Firewall (or other firewall) configuration. That is why I suggested disabling everything (DMZ router, turn off firewall) just to test that you CAN connect when there is absoultely nothing blocking you.

[thebawss]

Got it to work and actually it was none of these things it was just a matter of using a port number given by one of the other games.

[SteveMcClaire]

Glad you got it working. Which port number was it that seemed to make the difference?

[thebawss]

It was actually the same ports, but i was using the wrong port number

[hibangan]

I can't connect to a multiplayer game.

Game Radar has the executable as cc3.exe, but that's not the exe on my machine so it doesn't work, even when I copy my exe to cc3.exe

My son and I want to play Close Combat - Cross of Iron, so we both purchased the game on steam.

We are the same network, same subnet, same wifi. We both are running the latest version of Windows 11.

We both have windows firewall exceptions added (and have tried disabling the firewall)

We both have ensured that legacy DirectPlay is working.

I've tried port forwarding (though I shouldn't need it on the same subnet)
Host: 10.0.0.14
Client: 10.0.0.9

I have tried verifying that the ports are open on the host machine (we've tried both computers acting as Host)

using windows power shell I have tested from the client pc to the host pc:
Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 10.0.0.14 -Port 47624
worked
Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 10.0.0.14 -Port 2300
worked

We've tried every compatibility mode down to Windows XP

We've tried running as admin and as local account.

C:\Windows\System32>netstat -ano | findstr :2300
TCP 0.0.0.0:2300 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 10108
C:\Windows\System32>netstat -ano | findstr :2350
UDP 0.0.0.0:2350 : 10108
C:\Windows\System32>netstat -ano | findstr :47624
TCP 0.0.0.0:47624 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 14608
UDP 0.0.0.0:47624 : 14608

10108 close combat: Cross of iron
14608 Microsoft DirectPlay Helper (32-bit)

The kicker in all this is that it worked exactly once, and never again. So somehow it can work.

[Kanov]

have you tried Radmin VPN?
Download and install it, then add me: Kanov and join the Cross of Iron network

And we can try to connect.