Step-by-Step instructions for playing LAN

[SixerEagle]

Me and my friend want to play LAN but cannot seem to pull it off. Please I need a simple step-by-step every last detail instructions for this

[AlenL]

One of you should go to the menu:

Network>Start Server>Start

wait till the game loads, then the other one should:

Network>Join Game>Search LAN and wait a bit for the other's server to appear on the list.

Make sure you disable Windows firewall, or add an exception to the game for it.

[Brutil]

I did this. I wait for a long time, seen a lot of world servers, but not server in PC three meters aside. Firewall has exception for Serious Sam.

[AlenL]

If you see world servers, you are not searching LAN, probably. Also, how can you see world servers at all now that GameSpy is down? For that, you'd need the Revolution version, not the plain classic.

[Curry Potter]

Try to open console and type connect 192.168.x.xxx (your friend ip)

[Cementas]

It depends on what your problem is ... everyone's problem is different.

Start off by setting up a Local Area Connection between the two PC's. Plugging the cable in is only half the job.

If you have done that and it doesn't work, there can be two possible issues:

1. Your computer cant host properly, and therefore the other doesn't see the created server. If this is the case try creating server from the other computer. If that doesn't help try googling the issue "can't host LAN server" or something similar.
   
   
2. Your computer does host the server properly, but the other one doesn't see it. Again you can solve it by trying to create a server from another computer.

In my case the problem was that the other computer I had (PC2) didn't see the server I created from PC1. The issue was: "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter". - it was somehow blocking my PC2's view of LAN servers. Solution:

  Go to: Network and Sharing Center --> Change adapter settings 
 
  Right click on "VirtualBox Host-Only Network" --> Click "Disable".

You can, maybe, go and disable that through your virtual machine's that you got on your computer settings themselves, but I didn't try.


If you don't have "VirtualBox Host-Only Network" adapter and none of the above works, you probably have another problem. If you find the solution for it feel free to share with others :)