Support: LAN games

[Dendrago]

So, my friend has been having consistent issues with LAN. Namely being that it won't search for games.

Not that it can't find them. It doesn't even give the "Searching for Games" message before it says nothing could be found.

We've disabled his firewall, disabled virus protect, disabled pretty much everything that could be causing this issue, and yet it still doesn't even search before it tells us there's nothing.

Any tips you could give to fix this? We're at a complete loss.

[HeadWound]

Can you connect to him if he hosts the game?

Are you running in steam 'offline' mode? this will default you to LAN mode to be sure.

Are you all connecting directly to the same router? hard connections or wireless?

Are you all using fixed IP addresses?

You are probably better off creating exceptions rather than disabling your firewall.

[Dendrago]

If he hosts, it's the same thing. My computer at least gives the Searching message, but doesn't find anything.

Steam isn't offline. The network setting in-game is LAN, though.

I'm using a LAN cable to the router, and he's on wifi. We've tried switching it around, though, and no dice.

Can't say I know about the IP settings. Never messed with it before.

(Also we tried making exceptions and allowing it through the firewall, and when it didn't work we tried disabling it entirely, and still no dice. Thanks for the response, though.)

[rcole_sooner]

WiFi to wired may be the issue. The router may need to be setup so they can see each other. it would be easier if both went wired or wifi.

[Dendrago]

Like I said, we tried that and it still didn't work.

The main thing that irks me about this is that his computer isn't even trying to search. Makes me think it's something on his end. With mine when I hit Find Games on LAN, it has the spinning vault symbol and says it's looking. His immediately shows nothing found.

[Dendrago]

Update: It works now. Took a factory reset, and for no discernable reason that we can tell, we aren't having any issues anymore.