can anyone tell me how to play online for the pc please. when i try, using the network play via the main menu all i seem to see is a message saying testing network enviroment. I have waited a good 5 mins but its still displays that message. i will be much obliged if someone can advise me.thanks

1: Doesn't it stop trying to connect eventually and give you an error message?

2: I assume you've checked your firewall?

If you need technical help on messageboards (which I would actually not recommend) it's better to post some information about your computer setup. "It's not working, how can I fix it?" doesn't really give people a lot to work with.

ya i have the same problem and my pc froze each time tried it again this morning and got through to site but it aint workin der doin som maintenace crap, a load of bollocks if u ask me

i have firewall enabled, do i have to disable it for network play to work?

No, keep your firewall on but you probably just need to set it to allow PES6.exe to connect to the internet. If you don't know how to do that, just tell me what type of firewall you have and I can walk you through it. It's pretty simple, actually, but most of the firewalls I've used pop up a question asking you wherer to allow a program to connect to the internet the first time it tries to... didn't that happen in your case?

i have a bt voyager 2100 wirelsee adsl router. i also have norton internet sercurity 2006 installed.

OK... I just realised you may need to forward a port on your router for the net game to work properly. I haven't tried it (the net part) myself yet but I'll let you know if you need to open a port and we'll cross that bridge when/if we get to it. Either way, you will definately need to set your firewall to allow PES6.exe to connect to the internet so let's just start there.

I haven't worked with Norton for a while but I think you need to go into Norton Internet Security and do the following (roughly, some words may not be exact but that shouldn't make much of a difference):

Click "Firewall" or "Personal Firewall" ...or whatever the tab says. Clcik "Configure" on the tab that opens up.

Clcik the "Programs" tab. Go over the list of programs and see if PES6.exe is there and, if so, if the Firewall is set to "Block all". If it is, change that to "Allow all".

If you don't see PES6.exe on the list, click "Add" and browse to it in your c:\program files\konami\pro evolution soccer 6 folder (or wherever you installed it). Make sure it is set to "Allow all" before you exit.

And that should be it for the Norton Firewall. If you are also running the Windows Firewall, disable it (control panel->windows firewall) as running both is redundant and troublesome.

Once you have done this, try running the game and connecting again. Let me know how it goes and good luck. Don't worry, you can't really do anything harmful to your firewall if you just follow the instructions above.

your a legend mate thanks alot for your time to help me out, i will give it a shot and report back to you if i was succesful or not, it may be awhile cos i gotta go to work.

cheers gb your advice worked..i got as far as selecting player profile however after that i get a message saying connection to server lost. By reading other views on this forum regarding online play i think this might be a common problem with everyone due to the konami servers.

Yeah, it makes sense to me that the servers aren't quite perfect yet. I'm going to give it a couple of days before nagging but so far it seems to be working fine for me.

Good to hear you got it working, just post here if you run into more trouble.