Hi Krishna. What you'll need to do is download the V1.3 patch first. Apply it on both the machines. Now the trick is to assign the following in your LAN properties:
Eg:
(For Host PC)
IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (or whatever is picked up as the default one)
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1
Select Use Preferred DNS and then insert the following:
Preferred DNS: 192.168.0.1
Then click on advanced and select WINS tile and type:
Add>type 192.168.0.1>Add
Finally make sure the firewall is off from the LAN properties.
(For Client PC)
IP Address: 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (or whatever is picked up as the default one)
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1
Select Use Preferred DNS and then insert the following:
Preferred DNS: 192.168.0.1
Then click on advanced and select WINS tile and type:
Add>type 192.168.0.1>Add
Finally make sure the firewall is off from the LAN properties here as well.
Now host the game & check if it gets picked up on both PC's or not. I had tried it in a local cafe where the gateway of the host PC was the same for all PC's & it detected every connection just fine. But while trying to connect on our local LAN it didn't work. I have to try this trick myself but will be worth a shot. Let me know if it works.
I dont know how to configure or ping the computer
It's pretty easy. If you have shared the connection via a standard ethernet cable then you should have assigned IP addresses to each computers. Just check the IP address of one of the PC & ping that IP from the second machine to check physical connectivity. To ping a machine, Click on Start menu - RUN & then type in cmd. Once in the command prompt type 'ping 192.168.1.1' (or whatever the IP of the other machine is) & hit enter. If you get a reply then it's properly connected. If it says timed out then there is a problem in the connection.
Is this official what i am doing?(To install same copy on two computers).
Technically it's not possible to play online with same copy on 2 different machines simultaneously as you can't share the same CD key. Unless you have applied a no-dvd check to it or if it's a multi-license copy, which I doubt it is. You need 2 different CD keys for every session. So yeah it's not really "official".
