Firewall Vs. Ns

kiwi_3

<div class="IPBDescription">o no</div> I am using ZoneAlarm Pro and it's been working great ever since I installed it. However, NS stopped working all of a sudden (was not able to load - Not Responding messege) and had to restart my computer after every attempt. So I narrowed the problem down to my firewall. After turning it off, NS loaded normally and I was able to join a game without any problems. If it is indeed my firewall that was the problem, what can I do in order to leave it on while playing NS? Keep in mind that my firewall had no problems with NS or any other program in the past, this just happened one day without warning. It is possible that I may have changed some setting in the firewall program without knowing. But if so, what can I do to get things back to normal?

Thanks

Athlon 2100+
512 RAM
Cable Modem
Nvidia Geforce3 Ti500

Eternieve

Yes, the problem was the Zone Alarm. NS actually worked with it off. I tried with ZA on, with all security settings to nothing, but that doesn't fix anything. Only way was to completely shut it down.

My suggestion for now is, to use older version (if you can find it -_-).

Most likely, this happened since ZA ver 4.x and on.
ZA ver 3.x works fine.

Version I am using now is 3.7.211, downloaded in September. It works wonders. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Thansal

Suggestion

Go to the ZA forums and ask them about it. More than likely other people have hit this and there is a fix/workaround <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

devicenull

Um, possibly caused by the newest update, I didn't get it and my zonealarm works fine (even though all the security is at nothing, I use my router for security) I use 4.0.169.029
Possibly ZA is interrupting HL to ask for permission to access the internet, which leads to half life seeming to minimize itself to a service, try granting "Half Life Launcher" full permissions

kiwi_3

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try looking for an older version of ZA.

YES! Thanks for the help, I found an older version and it works great. The version Eternieve suggested, 3.7.211, can be found <a href='http://www.tweakzone.nl/downloads/3964' target='_blank'>here</a>.

Thanks again