Multiplayer Freeze

[stainer 0]

Before anyone says anything I must point out that I did a search before posting, but did not find any info.

I have:

OFP:R 1.96

Windows XP

P4 3.00GHz Processor

1024mb RAM

128mb ATI Radeon x300

2mb ADSL connection

The problem is this:

Normal OFP is fine, but when I click Multiplayer on the main screen OFP freezes and I am forced to reset my PC from the mains.

I have tried a clean install, but it still resulted in the same effects.

My Video card has the latest drivers, I downloaded them just 2 weeks ago.

Any suggestions?

[Heatseeker 0]

Your firewall could be responsable for this, tried to disable it before going online?

[stainer 0]

Yeh my firewall's disabled but still does the same thing.

[Placebo 28]

What about Window's firewall?

[Cpt Viper 0]

It's probably a Firewall problem, i had a similair problem aswell.

I've got the firewall 'Zonealarm', and whenever i did a clean install of OFP, and i clicked on 'Multiplayer', my OFP froze. At least, that's what i though. But it was because Zonealarm popped up this 'accept' or 'decline' pop-up. Which i couldn't see because of my OFP being in the way, useing the shortcuts helped, or allowing your OFP in your firewall beforehand.

But yes .. sorry for this long story, check your firewall, and make sure OFP is accepted.

Good luck.

- Viper

[Placebo 28]

Until Opf is running problem free in all areas it can be quite useful to run it windowed until you have everything configured how you like it, just add -window to the shortcut as in the image below......

[stainer 0]

Well I did some tinkering and it's now sorted. Thanks everyone!  

You can lock if you want.

[Placebo 28]

What was the cause?

[stainer 0]

What was preventing me from getting on to the screen was my firewall coming up, so I changed that, but when I tried to change "Implementation: Direct Play" to "Sockets" it froze again. Eventually I managed to access "sockets" and MP works fine, just I still can't change from "directplay" to "sockets". I can live with that.

Thanks again for all your help.

[Musket 0]

Hey have a friend with a simalar prob. What's stopping u from going directpay to sockets and how do you correct that?

How did u get back to sockets?

[lATE 0]

Open the flashpoint\users\<your username>\userinfo.cfg and change the line useSockets=0; to useSockets=1;

I think that will work.

[456820 0]

i had that same problem but it wouldnt do it everytime what happened is my firewall poped up forcing ofp to minimize but when i minimized my flashpoint froze but now ive sorted it buy installing the latest drivers now i can alt+tab

[stainer 0]

Open the flashpoint\users\<your username>\userinfo.cfg and change the line useSockets=0; to useSockets=1;

I think that will work.

Yup, that will work.

456820 you can just run OFP in a window as Placebo said above by adding the parameter -window to the target line