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I'm trying to upgrade an old DirectPlay-based program that hooks up to Flight Simulator 2000 to work with Flight Simulator 2004. In 2000, I start our software, then go to Flight Simulator 2000, select the multiplayer option, and it automatically finds the reference to our software as a fellow Flight Simulator 2000 pilot hosting a multiplayer game. In 2004, Flight Simulator 2004 cannot see our application, even when I try to help it along by specifying the IP address of our application. How do you instruct an application to say "Hey, I'm a Flight Sim 2004 player ready to host!"? I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong in an ID or string somewhere that would tell Flight Simulator 2004 that our application is also a Flight Simulator 2004 application and identify it as a "hosting pilot" in order to hook up. How do DirectPlay applications usually recognize applications of the same type? Any ideas? Thanks -fel