Bought the game today, patched it, installed a mod or two, and when I was fianlly going to play the thing my screen froze two seconds after the gamespy in-game browser had loaded. Ok, just a minor lock-up,I can deal with that, or so I thought, because my system refused to respond to any commands after that so the only thing that could be done was a reboot. After my third reboot I decided that maybe I should try something else, so I launched Gamespy Arcade and voila, I can play from there. The only problem is that as soon as I hit escape I’m back at the browser menu, which freezes my system!
Now I am getting very, very annoyed here. What can I do?
I only use All-Seeing Eye now for finding games, but what you’re describing certainly doesn’t sound normal. I suppose it would matter what your video card, drivers, etc. (and maybe sound stuff too) is?
I used to use Zone Alarm, but it caused a lot of problems with a lot of games. Kerio Personal Firewall is much more well-behaved for me. Be sure to research the proper uninstallation of Zone Alarm if you dump it. It has a nasty tendency to leave parts of itself and block some of your net access.
I did try Kerio a month ago, to see if I could get e-mule to work better, but I didn’t have the patience to set it all up. For all it’s flaws, Zone Alarm is extremely easy to use.
Also, uninstalling Kerio caused weird glitches with Installshield when I was installing games the week after.