#forcebindip

[garyl6870]

Balls to the Wall with Grimnir - 2017-09-01

[problemvssolution-blog]

Force games to run over Hamachi

So, you have a game you want to play with your friend. It can run over LAN but you want to play it over internet. You have installed Hamachi to make a VPN and everything should run fine but you cannot seem to get the game to actually run over the "LAN" (Hamachi)!

Well, there is a solution!

It is called ForceBindIp, it is free and it forces your game to use the Hamachi network adapter.

Here is what you need to do. Download ForceBindIp from here. Run the setup.

Double check if the installation went properly by starting your command prompt and type "forcebindip". If it is installed correct you shoud get a error message looking like this.

Now go to the folder where your game is installed. Create a .bat file. I name mine rungame.bat. Edit it and enter something like this:

ForceBindIP 192.168.1.1 game.exe

NOTE! You need to replace 192.168.1.1 with your ip on Hamachi. And replace game.exe with the name of your game exe file! Shouldn't be so hard to figure out.

Save the .bat file and run it. Both you and your friend need to do this process and the game should work fine.

If you get an error about bindip.dll you need to download the .zip version from the ForceBindIp site and copy the dll file manually to "c:\windows\system32".