No longer able to play mp

[Dark_Shadow 1]

Tried patching to 1.90 and 1.91- both result in the same thing. SP plays fine and has no problems- but as soon as i hit MP- it just freezes pc up and I have to reboot to get going again. Been playing for over a year-both OFP and Res. and never had any probs till I upgraded with these patches- Did an uninstall and went back to 1.85 and everything works fine again- tried 1.9 and 1.91= same lock up prob. Any ideas?

Win XP is OS

[ralphwiggum 6]

did you recently get a firewall?

[Mister Frag 0]

The problem you are describing is common with software-based firewalls such as ZoneAlarm that maintain a database of applications and their network access priviledges.

Those priviledges are associated with signatures or fingerprints that are specific to a particular version of an application, and if the signature/fingerprint changes (due to installing an upgrade or applying a patch), the new application usually has no way to get past the firewall until the firewall is configured to allow it.

[Dark_Shadow 1]

You guys are the greatest! That was it- I turned off my FW and *bam*= good to go. Guess 1.9 changed something there cause I been playin with this FW for over a year. Thanks

[Mister Frag 0]

I wouldn't turn it off entirely, I would instead configure it to allow OFP to get out to the Internet (and accept connections from the outside world if you intend to host games as well).

Which firewall do you have?

[Dark_Shadow 1]

Zone Alarm is what I use

[TheBrain 0]

If you don't want to disable your firewall (like me )

you will find this solution useful.

If you want to be sure that all works fine you should patch your resistance and then add the resistance exe file manually in Zonealarm. Open Zonealarm, goto the "program control" sheet, select "Add" and select the "FLASHPOINTRESISTANCE.EXE" in your installation folder. You should also make this step in the future if you patch the game.

With this 2 things you shouldn't have any problems with OFP and Zonealarm.

[Mister Frag 0]

The "Add" feature is only available in ZoneAlarm Pro, but not the version that is freely downloadable for personal use.

If you have the latter, follow the instructions in THIS thread instead.

[TheBrain 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Dec. 27 2002,20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The "Add" feature is only available in ZoneAlarm Pro, but not the version that is freely downloadable for personal use.

If you have the latter, follow the instructions in THIS thread instead.<span id='postcolor'>

Hm. I don't have the Pro version. Only the personal version 3.1.291 and I have the "Add" button in the "program control" tab!

[Mister Frag 0]

Cool. That feature used to not be there when I was using ZoneAlarm, they must have added it.