Hello,

Stronghold Crusader 2 is a very important game for us and our plan is to support it extensively going forwards. As a result we will be releasing regular updates to Stronghold Crusader 2 over the coming weeks and months. The first fixes will be essential stability fixes with gameplay and balance bugs being addressed after that. We also have a number of feature updates planned which we will announce nearer the time. 

Multiplayer was disabled from these games, due to GameSpy that supplied the servers for multiplayer getting switched off. There is a workaround for this by using GameRanger to play Multiplayer. You can download this from here - http://www.gameranger.com/

When Playing over GameRanger you amy need to set your network speed to an higher parameter in GameRanger:
Edit -> Options -> Network -> Connection Speed (set higher