Zonealarm behind game window

[starstreams 0]

Is there some kind of command to temporally turn off OFP’s full screen? Ctrl+Tab sends the game to the task bar which it not helping my problem.

I am using Zone alarm fire wall and when I try to start a multi player game the game freezes because the zone alarm window is behind the game window and I can’t give OFP the permission it needs to access the net. I’ve tried adding the Operation Flash Point.exe in Zonealarms program control window but it is not working. Can someone please help on this?

[ALDEGA 0]

I suggest turning it off when playing online (or not using it alltogether).

Anyway, if you're lucky you can still press alt-Y, even if you cannot see that messagebox. Give it a try.

[Placebo 29]

It didn't cross your mind at all to try using the search engine? Maybe you felt your time was more valuable than mine? You're prolly right But next time please try the search engine

Read Mr. Frag's post here

[ralphwiggum 6]

i use ZA and here's what you can do. my version is 3.0 or something like that.

open ZA,

goto 'Program control' on your left

hit 'Programs' tab

choose 'add' at the bottom

browse to your OFP directory and add OFP executable file

and have checks for all area(internet, trusted zone)

[starstreams 0]

Not the answers I was looking for guys but, anyway

I found a solution at the Avon Lady’s web site!

Take a look cats

http://www.theavonlady.org/theofpfaq/install/windowed.htm

[Major Fubar 0]

I'd have to agree with Aldega...turn it off when playing.

I had nothing but problems running OFP with ZA on in the background.

[Mister Frag 0]

FYI, I believe the 'Add' feature is only available in the Pro version, but not the non-Pro version that is free for non-commercial users.

[starstreams 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Sep. 22 2002,08:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">FYI, I believe the 'Add' feature is only available in the Pro version, but not the non-Pro version that is free for non-commercial users.<span id='postcolor'>

I have the 3.1 pro version, it doesn’t matter, for some reason when you added the flash point.exe and server.exe to the ZA list, Zone alarm will still put up the little window until you put a check in it.

However the solution to my problem was to temporally run my OFP screen at miniature window mode, I was then able to add the check to the zone, then I removed the string from the short-cut as explained at the link above and I am running in normal full screen again.

The other problem is too many people are using old versions of Zone Alarm and there are incompatibilities with the newer versions. I alos notice that people running Win98 have had some problems maby do to the fact that the FAT32 file system can’t communicate with NTFS as well.... although some games like Unreal don’t seem to have a problem with it at all

To -> Major Fubar

If you close your fire wall down, it’s no different then locking yourself in your room to play a 3 hour game while leaving the front door to your house open. I see what you guys are saying and your right but at the same time it’s BS that we should have to do shut it down.

If I turned it off every time I played OFP, it would never be on  

[Major Fubar 0]

Hmm, well I surfed the net for years before I bothered to run a firewall, and nothing bad ever happened to my system...but each to their own.

[joltan 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (starstreams @ Sep. 22 2002,17:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I have the 3.1 pro version, it doesn’t matter, for some reason when you added the flash point.exe and server.exe to the ZA list, Zone alarm will still put up the little window until you put a check in it.<span id='postcolor'>

Got the pro version, too - since I configured the .exe in the settings, I never had any ZA window open. Maybe you didn't configure the ports correctly - did u allow UDP packets? Just checking the Internet connection rights in the list with the default settings should do it (server rights not needed as long as you don't want to be server).

Remember - you can choose in the list wether ZA should ask, deny or allow a connection attempt by a certain software. In order to get rid of the little window you have to set it to 'allow' (green hook). Just adding the .exe to the list (done automatically by ZA when the proramm attempts to access the net for the first time) is not enough.

Edit: forgot to mention it: you also have to set it so it doesn't pop up a window on any activity. Just set it so it only informs you on a critical event (I'm not at home to check where to set that, but I'll do so later). Maybe that's your problem?