can't connect

[looqas]

Look in this folder C:\Program Files\Common Files, and see if you have a folder in there called "Symantec Shared".................if so download the symantec removal tool ............That fixed my connection problems:)

The only problem in your suggestion is that I've built the comp from ground up and installed Vista myself and Symantec/Norton has not been installed on my machine ever. I've used Avast without any problems with other games. And ZoneAlarm as a firewall.

Things I've tried so far:

1) Stopped Windows Defender, stopped it's background services from running, killed the remaining Defender related processes --> No effect.

2) Stopped Windows firewall (is off by default, but just to make sure) background services from running, killed the remaining firewall related processes --> No effect.

3) Stopped Zonealarm, stopped it's background services from running, killed the remaining firewall related processes --> No effect.

4) Tried running freelancer.exe as admin and in compatibility mode

I've been monitoring the nettraffic while trying to connect to server and it's not looking too good.


I've got my game installed on F-drive. Is GLS/freelancer/mod manager in any way sensitive to drive letter? It's a MS game and from the era that these things did matter so that's probably the next thing I'll try out by installing everything on C. The single player has no probs with the game being in F-drive.

Also I think I'll try pinging the RP server from command line and see if there's any answer. My guess the ping is disabled from the server. And likely this is not the problem since I can see RP server in the list with ping around 77-90.

Another thing I think I'll try is to turn off Avast and it's services. Another rriskier move is to turn off UAC and then try it.

Everything is cool and as supposed to be until I try to connect. This thing really baffles me. My router has all the port available and ISP is not blocking any ports AFAIK (gotta check it).

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