Zone Alarm + gaming = crash! :|

[Alex]

hey a couple months ago i posted a thread about weird reboots and i went through all sorts of trouble to test everything and in the end i coindidentally uninstalled ZA and no crashes. i installed the new free version yesterday and already today it crashed once in the middle of diablo... its always the same true vector engine errors... :|

 

[Luagsch]

i had p2p related zone alarm problems.
i then tried tiny, sygate and black isle before landing at kerio personal firewall. i haven't expirienced any problems yet. maybe it's worth a try.

 

[Alex]

kerio? never heard of it... ill look it up thx

 

[waylman]

seems pretty obvious. Stop using Zone Alarm!

 

[ZimZum]

I switched to Sygate a while ago and havent looked back. More robust protection, more customizable, less buggy etc etc.

 

[alm4rr]

sometimes games may hang if you have "ask me bout programs connectin to internet" (something like that ) option selected b/c the game is waiting for you to allow zonealarm to allow the game to connect to the internet....

helps to run games in windowed mode the first time so you can alt tab out or whatever to allow the game to connect.......

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: alm4rr
sometimes games may hang if you have "ask me bout programs connectin to internet" (something like that ) option selected b/c the game is waiting for you to allow zonealarm to allow the game to connect to the internet....

helps to run games in windowed mode the first time so you can alt tab out or whatever to allow the game to connect.......

thats not it... the game runs for an hour or so before crashing...

but i guess ill switch to something else that doesnt suck

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

I switched to Sygate a while ago and havent looked back. More robust protection, more customizable, less buggy etc etc.

Yea me too.