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Old 06-21-2007   #5 (permalink)
MDF Destroyer


 
 

Re: direct play for microsoft games [freelancer]


PS just in case some one askes did you have the fire wall down fore the
antivres and the ancer is yes. all so mcaffy, zone labes . all do the same
thing my xp machine no problme with antivres . my vista machine with
antivres .freelancer mplayer will say server gos off line. with them
uninstaled no problme conecting to servers
"MDF Destroyer" wrote:

>
> hello
> i am playing fl on vista and on line
> the problme hase to do with vires protections!!!!!!
> i have dune exparments. i have un instaled my nortan antivres.
> fired up freelancer conect to servers no problme.
> reinstaled nortan same erro as you get server hase gone off line.
> now if you have vista 64 bit build then there is not much use of vires
> protection yet cause no one hase realy made any vires that work on a 64 bit
> machine so far.
> but do exparemnts and try . un install your vires protection and i bet you
> will be able to get on servers. i dont know y this is. but from what im
> finding out is it hase to do with something they added in windows to work
> with the antivres soft were.
> so if ya want to play fl on line then ya have to dump your antivres
> "Steve" wrote:
>
> > Thx for the reply chuck,
> > i can run the game in vanilla,whenever i try to go online to play on a mod i
> > can get to the server list but when i try to connect to a server all i get is
> > that the was a connection problem my end or server end.I have checked all the
> > usuall avenues of firewalls etc but to no avail.i am running vista home
> > premium with a dual core AMD 5600 and an NVIDEA pro card.I have no trouble on
> > my XP machine and everything is set correctly.I am at a loss lol
> >
> > "Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> > > Windows Vista does include DirectPlay, but not DirectPlay Voice or Direct3D
> > > Retained Mode. Can you perhaps be more specific about the error or behavior
> > > you are seeing trying to run it? What kind of hardware and video do you
> > > have? What video driver are you using?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chuck Walbourn
> > > SDE, XNA Developer Connection
> > >
> > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> > >
> > >
> > >

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