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For some reason whenever I go onto the 'join an online game' section no games show up. The same problem is happening to my friend and we're both on windows 10. Both of our steams are updated and we have reset the game and steam multiple times and we do not know how to fix this.

Looking to start an online game, hopefully we can get enough interest

Hi everyone, This is a bit long but I'd appreciate some support and thanks in advance for taking the time to read. Background: Me and my mate have been playing career games over the network since FM2010. Sometimes we get together in the same house and play over the wifi network (happy days) and sometimes from our own houses over internet (huge pain). Back in the days the game used to crash a lot (unexpected error) but the guys at SI have made considerable progress so we don't have many of those game crashes anymore where we almost killed each other while we decided which save to load from etc etc.. Anyway we somehow managed to come this far from 2010. But this year the game has been impossible to play over the network for us. We click the Inbox, messages take ages to load, you press the Space bar and it takes 5 seconds for the game to take that into play, you pause the match to go into tactics and it takes just AGES- like once a match lasted 35 minutes on key highlights... I was just wondering what the requirements really are for the game flow to be fast enough over network play (internet, not local). For example, what should be the internet speed, download speed, upload speed? What is the minimum pc requirements? Is it possible to have the same game play feel on a network game, as if you are playing a single career game? Doesnt have to be THAT fast but still... At this moment its just not working for us and we would appreciate some support. What are our internet speeds and computer configurations? I believe our internet and computer configurations are more than enough to play this game over the network. But let's see what you have to say We both have the exact same computers; MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Ram, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB Internet speeds: Between 25-30 Mbps for Download and 7-10 Mbps for Upload. I think his was even 50Mbps/15Mbps. Rendering mode: Software Use caching to decrease page loading: Ticked Match graphics: Low Also see attached for Video Settings etc Where is the struggle? Whoever runs the server on their computer has no issues when browsing through the game or navigating from a player profile to Inbox for example - its almost as if you play a single player game. However for others it takes up to 15 seconds to load a page in the game which makes it extremely annoying. Sometimes you even disconnect. (speedtests were made at times when we thought the game was failing) What is the question? There must be something that we can do because at the moment its just not playable. We have tried all these below, so now I just want to ask: Are my computer and internet configurations enough to play this game over the network? If not, what should I upgrade? If yes, what are we doing wrong? Why should you write a reply if you think you could help? Since FM 2010 we had over 500+ hours played in our network games and unfortunately now we have only been able to have 150 hours of our tradition because we simply cannot play over the internet. Its just too slow. It makes us sad, really. Cheers for taking the time to read

https://imgur.com/x3YLBKU Keep getting this error in human v human matches. who are kev and dave?

Hi, is it possible to play online together if one has a macbook and the other one a windows laptop (pc)? I have tried but I couldn't find his game. Kind regards,

My friend and I are playing an online save and when we’re watching each other we’re seeing different gameplay and scorelines. Sometimes he’ll see the game as 0-0 when watching me when it is in fact 1-0. Another time he was watching me on my screen I had a corner kick and on his screen the other team had just scored to make it 1-0. It remained 0-0 on my screen up until the game finished and then I got back to my inbox and it said I lost 1-0.

I’m on Mac and when I try and join my friends online game, it says steam needs to be online when it is, I’ve followed the FAQ which told me to deleted a certain file however I did this and the file reappeared and the game still Said the same thing

Good afternoon. I played online against 2 colleagues in fm 2019, the owner of save decided to get my coach to download my tactics and use it ... How was it possible for him to take over my coach while I had my password? He did not know my password. I think it's unfair for the owner of save to be able to take control of the other coaches so that he can see tactics, training of others ... and so others are at a disadvantage. Best regards

I want to start an Online Career together with a friend but I have some mods installed. My question is does my friend need to have the same mods installed? Normally it should be needed of course but I read that I host the game, and he gets the data automatically installed which I can't really believe and I think that it was probably wrong but maybe it is true. If anyone can help me, thanks in advance.

Experiencing a very frustrating, game-breaking bug/glitch on FM 2019 Online. Me and 2 friends have 2 online saves where we all manage different clubs in the same division. Everything works fine until we play each other. After submitting our teams at 0:00 or at any random point during the game, it will freeze and neither player can continue. It states "waiting for adam e.g" even though he is clicking play/continue and I am doing the same. We are forced to quit the game and load up the last save and keep repeating this process till it finally lets the game run. Sometimes this takes about 5/6 attempts. Its usually after a pause - it lets neither player click continue/play. Me and my friends have highly-capable PC's so we believe this to be a issue on FM's side. In addition to this, their is another bug. If I don't have a game on the same day as my friend, I like to spectate his match. However, I somehow see different events to him, someone will score a free kick on my screen and it will be 1-0 however this hasn't happened on his and its 0-0. I watch a complete different version of the game. It also sometimes freezes and doesn't let him continue the match unless I leave the game. Hoping to get some help with these very frustrating issues.

All, New FM features look great and all but I can't help but notice not even 1 new network game feature? I've searched for a thread about the future of the online career and couldn't find one, if there is one feel free to just post this thread into there (Mod). Every game on the planet has looked into ways to delve into the online multiplayer scene and FM has been doing it for a long time but honestly I'm not even sure if there is a dedicated online multiplayer development team in SI. Some of the bugs we've had to endure on release of FM have reoccurred for 5 or 6 versions now, it's actually embarrassing. In my opinion this is the most exciting mode on the game and it is being criminally overlooked. There are no special online features for the network, the most interesting thing you can do is attach a note to your friend on the back of a transfer offer, it's ridiculous. There so many unique situations that occur in a network game that SI could easily address with some ingenuity. There's a lot I want to write but the crux of it is: can anybody from SI let us know if there's any real attention being paid to the network aspect of this game? Recurring Bugs: Changing results after pressing continue Human vs Human matches crashing Matches crashing when Human spectates another Human match Transfers by far in a way is the most overlooked aspect of the network games. You can easily break the transfer system on the game in a network game. Example 1, if there's a player you don't want anybody else to buy, but you actually don't have the transfer budget to buy him yourself, you can go in for the transfer, offer a huge unrealistic contract and he will accept you every time. Keep doing this till transfer deadline. Another example, say I have £100m and a player is listed for £40m. I, player A, anticipating my competitor will bid £40m, bid £60m to try to gain some exclusivity. The AI of course accepts both bids - totally unrealistic. There are so many opportunities for improvement, I'd do away with all the new features if they would just put some extra effort into Online Career mode.

If you're interested in joining feel free. Just started it up trying to grow a community of FM players. https://discord.gg/3WPKTZr

I saved the game, shut the game down, started the game up and loaded the save file...But it doesn't appear for my friends to join. When I invite to lobby. Nothing happens.What am I doing wrong?

Anyone wat to play either one off games or a league/tournament? Don't know anyone IRL with the game, but exited to play online against real people!

Hi guys! For the first time ever since I play FM, this year my friend and I decided to start an online career together. As we are both new to that, we have some issues and I hope you can give me some tips. So we initially could not find each other servers, eventually we decided to set up the download region to have the same (I'm in the US, he is in Italy...I changed mine into Italy). We were then able to get into each other game, but: when I entered his game, I had extremely high waiting times from one page to another (minutes), and same when he tried to join my server (we both had very fast page switching when we were hosting the game). We also tried with my download region and him switching to mine, same issue. We tried and joined public leagues to see if that issue would happen also joining other servers, but it does not. We both have fast cable connection, and working well. The only thing we did not try is to have the computers connected via cable rather than WIFI. I wonder if this issue depends on the fact that this is a beta version, or because we are on WIFI rather than cable, or any other that you guys may have in mind...? I read somewhere that we could change the "rendering" option from CPU assisted to something else, but I cannot find that option on the "interface" panel. I hope someone can give me some guidance, for the way it is now playing online is not feasible!

Hi, I am hosting an online game Server name is Big League no password Timing is 9 PM - 11 PM UTC -5 Hrs Hosting Friday to Sunday

The game crashes as in the whole programme closes instantly with no error messages etc. I am not the host of the game and haven't had too many issues so far. We had to switch to a different version to get over a previous issue but has all been fine since then. I have recently installed the latest Windows 10 update (think it might be this but don't know why) and have changed ISP from Virgin to Vodafone so a bit slower although still 35Mb. Any suggestions or solutions appreciated. Also does anyone know how long online FM games are supported for and will generally run? We are hoping this is a game for a long, long time :-)

Hey guys I need some help pls. Me and my friend , we both bought the ingame editor but when we play online league together,He is the only one who can use the ingame editor maybe because he is the admin server ..! Can I am use the ingame editor aswell please ? Thanks

Hey guys I need some help pls. Me and my friend , we both bought the ingame editor but when we play online league together,He is the only one who can use the ingame editor maybe because he is the admin server ..! Can I am use the ingame editor aswell please ? Thanks

Hi...I mainly play network/internet games of Football manager (currently still on FM17). My friend and I have been playing the same save for approx 10 seasons, my laptop hosts. However, in this, our 11th season, my friend is now experiencing an issue where he cannot continue from one day to the next and even clicking "continue" causes his game to slow to a halt and becomes unresponsive. If he waits for 5/10 minutes he is able to navigate the game again, but hasn't made any progress.This issue came about very suddenly, as far as I am aware there wasn't a gradual build up. We were playing and it was fine, then he couldn't confirm his team selection for a match.We are using a custom European Super League database, and currently in Jan 2028. Up until last summer we were just using this one 'country' with two divisions, but in the summer I added Spain and Germany. However the game ran fine for half of the season with these added.The only remedy I've found is kicking my friend from the game, I take over from my computer, and then relinquish control back to him. This has allowed him to click continue for a very short time, perhaps into a match, but then he is unable to leave the match.The circumstances seem very strange to me, I cannot see what would have happened in the middle of one session that has cause a last effect like this. I've saved the game as a new name, restarted both computers, routers etc.If anyone has any ideas or has experienced this themselves, please, I welcome any suggestions. I think if we cannot fix this soon it will mean the end of a very good and enjoyable save.

Does anybody want to play online with me. I live in europe. I am a beginner but as far as lower league management is going right now i should be good, so dont expect me to be Sir Alex Ferguson. I do not care what team you want to manage so that is not an issue, i probably will go with a league 1 or a championship team and you should be open to doing transfer buisness with me and by that i dont mean that give me your players or die, i just want to negotiate over some players. I would like to speak over discord when we negotiate transfers and steam voice chat is ok as well. Contact me on steam if you live in europe and speak good enough english to communicate. Im not a grammar nazi so I don't care if we can have a normal conversation. My Steam profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198105105641/

Does anybody want to play online with me. I live in europe. I am a beginner but as far as lower league management is going right now i should be good, so dont expect me to be Sir Alex Ferguson. I do not care what team you want to manage so that is not an issue, i probably will go with a league 1 or a championship team and you should be open to doing transfer buisness with me. I speak decent english and if i want to sign a player i would like to negotiate the signing over discord or steam voice chat. Please send me your steam link so i could add you guys. ANYONE IS WELCOME but you need to live in europe

Managers move around here there and everywhere so it would be great to see how many times I have beaten Mourinho/Klopp/Guardiola etc no matter which teams they have been managing. I also play quite a bit online with a mate or two and given we (mainly me) is sacked and move around a bit I'd love to be able to see how I've performed against my fellow humans. I can only currently do this by looking at the dates I was managing at a certain club, then checking previous meetings...but I have to do this for every club (I'm currently on team number 4 for this save). If more than one of us manage more than 2 teams if becomes a bit of a slog. In summary: more in depth managerial statistics regarding the other managers you have competed against. Cheers!

Hi there, i'm not sure if this is a right sub-forum for the topic but I have problem with starting online game (Football Manager 2017). Everything was fine just few weeks ago and than it started bugging. Sometimes my friend and me make a success (start a game) but mostly we can't start it. Does anyone know how to fix this? Game: Football manager 2017 OS (both): Microsoft Windows 10

Hi, I play a network game with a friend. When we came to play each other in the league, we did out team talks and pressed play to start the match however the match engine/interface did not recognise this so therefore we were stuck on the pitch as the game couldn't play. It thought we were still doing our team talks. We managed to pass this by forcing one of us on holiday. However this ruins the game as one of us couldn't manage their team. Please help, as online as been full of bugs this year. Thanks, James.