[niallpatty]

Thanks for replying so quickly guys.

I have turned off the fire walls on both PCs to rule this out. I have managed to get both games updated when the internet was good enough in the small hours. It takes ages!

On the PC I want to use as server, I have been doing the following.

In COD multiplayer I select Server, Net, then Port=27015, Local Host=192.168.1.10 (sever pc IP address), Speed=LAN, Apply, OK then after about 10 secs I get a steam connection error bos saying "connection to steam lost, exiting"

When I try to close COD I get a "Launcher is not responding" box.

Now on the Pc I intend to use as client, I cant open COD. just after I slect "start steam in offline mode" I get a steam error box saying "could not connect to steam network. this could be due to a problem with your internet connection or a problem with the steam network"

Weird, it worked last night.

Is there any way of running this game without Steam? I kind of thought it would be a case of if you buy the DVD it will just load up and run like 1946 does. I always get a disc over downloads due to my poor internet connection.

Just before i shut the PCs in question down I checked to make sure 1946 ran OK in multiplayer across both PCs. It did with no problems.

Thanks again.