Hamachi requires account creation, but then it’s just click join and it works.
That’s pretty much how Tunngle works, too.
Hamachi you can fool into letting you have more than 5 per LAN connection. I did it a bunch in high school.
Something like making sub groups within groups that you invite the other people into. Some people have to be in two so that it can make a “bridge” between the groups, but it works. Or did, a few years ago.
I haven’t used Hamachi in a while. I phased it out after they changed the client per network cap to 5.
For gaming, I find Tunngle superior to Hamachi.
I don’t have any experience with Evolve.
In case you aren’t aware, you CAN pay to support the program. And get added features.
Tunngle is generally for playing with the public whereas Evolve will work better for playing with a few friends.
Using windows 8 but it doesn’t matter if you tell it not to boot or not in the task manager under startup it does what it wants to. You have to goto service and disable at start up there but then you have to re enable it to open to use it… unless manual start up in services properties is what i should have set to… i shall have to check after i’m done with epoch.
Yeah, I wish. First off there’s making an account. Then there’s waiting for it to load (which isn’t quick). Then there’s activating it again to make a private server. Then there’s choosing one of the various VPN types, reading on which do what, making sure your connections aren’t being blocked, and then finally seeing it if works (it didn’t for us, due to my cousin’s router being garbage) It also is ad filled to shit, and a real pain in the ass when you just want a simple connection to LAN for friends. Hamachi is what I used growing up, and it still worked within 30sec of install, just how I like it.
If it works fine in Manual startup mode (doesn’t automatically start itself) then you can write a batch file (save as .cmd or .bat) containing this line:
net start [ServiceName]
and double-click it start the service. You can find the [ServiceName] by opening the service in the Services applet like you’ve been doing and when you double-click on the service you’ll see the “Service name” field. A batch file that will stop the service will just need this line:
net stop [ServiceName]
I suppose you could do it like that… Me and my friends just go to some empty hub (you can use any hub for any game, you don’t have to use the Borderlands 2 ones to play Borderlands 2, for example) and play. Never had a single issue, unless you want to count the ads (which you can always just block with your hosts file if you don’t feel like supporting the software).