Online gaming prob. Sob Sob

[Shirkin]

Hi Chaps,

Everytime I try and log into a server on games such as BF2 and FEAR my internet seems to go down. FEAR also crashes just as its loading up a map. Can't work out what the problem is for the life of me. And I'm pretty sure it's not a firewall issue.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.


>> Edited by Shirkin on Tuesday 1st November 09:34

[remal]

i had fear crash on me when loading after i changed the graphics setting. God knows why. I am useing a New PC with FX-57 CPU and a 7800GTX so I should be able to set everything to max but when I did it crashed. so wehn I let the game set it up it worked fine.

Just a thought

[Shirkin]

Ta, will give it a whirl. you been on EA 15 recently?

[remal]

i keeping looking most night. will be on their from about 6 tonight mate

regards

[DucatiGary]

ill be joining for a hour too :P

cant get my mic working though so il just be typing whilst eating whilst killing.. .. ..

[remal]

is it just as simple as fittin ghte mic to the back of the PC then it works or not really?

any tips

[Shirkin]

That's easy for you to say

>> Edited by Shirkin on Tuesday 1st November 15:29

[lockstock2sb]

You say you are pretty sure its not the firewall -have you actually disabled it and tried playing online ??

[Shirkin]

Spoke to someone earlier about the firewall, going to disable all of them when I get home. Ta

[TonyToniTone]

was going to suggest disabling firewall or adding rule..

[Shirkin]

All fixed. Took off Zone Alarm. Anyone know if the firewall in the Belkin router is any good?

[d-man]

Shirkin said:

All fixed. Took off Zone Alarm. Anyone know if the firewall in the Belkin router is any good?

Better than any software one

[Shirkin]

D-man cant tell from the wink if you're joking or not.

[d-man]

I'm not. The only useful thing about software firewalls is that they tell you if some new program is trying to connect to the internet, can be handy for spotting malware, viruses etc. Decent up to date anti virus and anti spyware software should cover this though.

Even the most basic hardware firewalls will be better at protecting you from attacks coming from the internet.

[Shirkin]

Cheers for that. Might ditch Zone Alarm for good then.

[jfrf]

sygate is a good software firewall.
free as well

I also like the fact that it tells you which programme is trying to access the internet.
Never had any problems and i do alot of online gaming

[TonyToniTone]

d-man said:

I'm not. The only useful thing about software firewalls is that they tell you if some new program is trying to connect to the internet, can be handy for spotting malware, viruses etc. Decent up to date anti virus and anti spyware software should cover this though. Even the most basic hardware firewalls will be better at protecting you from attacks coming from the internet.

The firewall market leader is checkpoint (software firewall)