How to setup a lan party?

[N00BYSL4Y3R]

Ok, Im totally new to this so sorry if it sound ridulous to you

 

so I just downloaded a free game on steam called dino d day and want to play with my friend. He has a laptop we are in the same basement. I have a router and some ethernet cable. my router is the  Asus RT N66U if it can help anyone.

Can someone can explain me how to setup a lan party please? I searched on google and found nothing  that working. We cant find each other.

So any help will be greatly apreciated thanks!

[JeffreyEagan]

Just plug your computers into the router and if there's a LAN option in-game, just click that.

[N00BYSL4Y3R]

Just plug your computers into the router and if there's a LAN option in-game, just click that.

that what I did and we cant find each other

[C1intFunWood]

What game is it?

[N00BYSL4Y3R]

What game is it?

Dino D Day

[fishymindz]

it can be your firewall that blocks the traffic i have that issue with a fresh install of a game often but it is an easy fixs you just need to get firewall to ignore the program 

this can help http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/communicate-through-windows-firewall#1TC=windows-7

[C1intFunWood]

Dino D Day

does it have a LAN feature to it? Are you trying to connect to a server? is it hosted by you or someone else? If you are searching in the server browser it won't show up, you must connect by IP in the console

EDIT: I think I know what's going on they're looking for each other in the server browser's LAN option, you have to set up a sever before you can play (Dino D Day is a source game)

[Sack]

What game is it?

Read his post again, he allready wrote what game it was ...

[N00BYSL4Y3R]

does it have a LAN feature to it? Are you trying to connect to a server? is it hosted by you or someone else? If you are searching in the server browser it won't show up, you must connect by IP in the console

what I do is start (being in game) the game.. then yes there is a Lan section but he cant found me.

so what do you mean by connect by ip in the console? Ip I know but how to open the console then?

[C1intFunWood]

what I do is start (being in game) the game.. then yes there is a Lan section but he cant found me.

so what do you mean by connect by ip in the console? Ip I know but how to open the console then?

You have to have a server set up to play. You can't peer to peer play together like Borderlands. You need a dedicated server.

[C1intFunWood]

To open up console goto your options menu and click advanced and click enable developers console then press the button left to your number one on your keyboard

[N00BYSL4Y3R]

To open up console goto your options menu and click advanced and click enable developers console then press the button left to your number one on your keyboard

thankyou very much! it worked!

Thankyou all for taking the time for helping too

[C1intFunWood]

thankyou very much! it worked!

Thankyou all for taking the time for helping too

Your welcome, Glad to have helped