Multiplayer Problem: Anyone Know Solution?

[RommelDAK]

As this is my first post in this forum let me begin by saying GOD BLESS MATRIX GAMES! I bought my first Avalon Hill wargame (Kriegspiel) in 1974, and have been obsessed ever since. SPWAW is wonderful!

Okay, my problem. A friend and I both downloaded SPWAW and updated it to version 6.1. We decided to give the multiplayer option a shot (with an eye towards eventually doing a six-player game within our gaming group), so we got on Roger Wilco and followed the prompts. No problems, all the way up through the deployment screen in a battle. But, as soon as both of us were done with deployment and the computer tried to reconcile our machines: OOB error. It also mentioned a specific number (which I had recorded it now--sorry!).

Okay, so we try again, this time a scenario. Long story short: same problem. OOB error. I assume this means that my computer showed my OOB to be different than what his computer showed. Dang.

Any idea what problem this might be? He's a SPWAW newbie and certainly has not made any OOB changes. I just reinstalled the game after a recent hard-drive problem, so I had not either. One thought I had: I don't know if he did the sound update or not (for stereo, I believe)--I have not. That may be irrelevant, though.

Thanks!

P.S. Apologies if this has been addressed before--I searched the first ten pages of posts and could not find it.

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[Paul Vebber]

We are not sure why this occurs, but for some reason the OOB files are "changed" somehow. THe fix is for one player to send the other player his files in a zip and extract and overwrite the exisitng ones.

ARe you playing a scenario of a battle generator battle?

[RommelDAK]

We tried one of each.

Thx, we shall give this a shot and report our results here!