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  • Moving Dawn of War to a new Computer

    If you’ve moved Dawn of War II and your saved games are not appearing, it is because your “Games for Windows” or “XLive” profile needs to be copied as well.

    1. On your old computer, copy the contents of c:\user\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Xlive to a USB stick or similar. Also get a copy of xxx\Documents\My Games\Dawn of War 2\Saved Games

    2. On the new computer, Start DoW2 and login under the same profile. If it was online on the old computer, just login. If it was offline on the old computer, create a new offline profile with the same name.

    3. Exit DoW2

    4. Delete the contents of the XLive folder on the new computer and replace it with the stuff on the USB stick.

    5. Copy your saved games from the USB stick into the folder on the new computer

    6. Start DoW2 and enjoy!

  • Dawn of War II Games for Windows Connection problem 0x80151911

    You have to hate it when you have your mates all lined up to play a multi-player online game and you are the one with the sick computer.

    They are very kind about it but you know they are muting their microphones and shouting “muppet” at you. Or worse.

    For me it was trying to get Dawn of War II to connect to Games for Windows. It just kept barfing. Arrgh.

    Tried unlocking the necessary network ports: UDP 88, 3074, TCP 3074. Nope. Didn’t do it.

    Tried opening the access-list on my trusty Cisco 1702. Nope.

    Then we looked at the MTU on the PC. Aha!!

    If you have your PC MTU set to a value lower than 1362, it fails.

    Pop along to the MTU registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\), change it to at least 1370 (I recommend 1492 personally) and restart.

    If you have specific values per interface, look at the keys for each adapter in turn: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\[Adapter ID] and create a new DWORD under each one called MTU with the appropriate value.

    Good pair of links to read: http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/785.aspx and http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-GB/Support/Pages/troubleshootingIssues.aspx

    Sorry guys!