Ship Simulator
English forum => Ship Simulator 2008 => Topic started by: Kevinmcg_ships on August 03, 2007, 20:23:24
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Please introduce a 'save game' feature in SS2008. Having just spent the past 1 hour and 45 mins playing a custom mission, and was only a few minutes away from completing the mission, the program crashed!!!!!!!!!! >:(
(something to do with my Zonealarm firewall settings - seemingly it blocked the VSTEP program from accessing the internet in the middle of a mission, causing it to crash)
Do I really want to go through all that again so that I can finish the mission this time?
Sorry, just feeling a bit scunnered and want to let off a wee steam! AAAAAARRRRGH!
;)
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Hi
It's been well documented that a mid mission save feature will be added in the patch due out later this month. Have no fear. :)
But I'm not sure why zonealarm would be upset. I can't see any reason that ship sim would try and access the net whilst in play.
Anyone else any idea on this?
Stu
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Well, my firewall has never asked for any permission for Ship Sim '08, only '06 for the scores/times uploading. No idea why it would be doing so in this case :-\
Regards.
DJM.
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Thanks guys, that would be a very welcome addition ;D
Zonealarm is something of a pain when I play SS2006 and SS2008. I always enable 'internet lock' (call me a paranoid!! ;)) when playing games and sometimes Zonealarm would pop up a message saying the program was attempting to access the internet and that's when the game has suddenly been terminated.
It's like a Russian Roulette with Zonealarm - sometimes you can complete 20 missions in a row and then the next one Zonealarm goes totally nuts as if it suddenly decided that an innocent program such as Ship Simulator :D was the biggest threat to my PC! ???
Anyhoo, if this keep happening then maybe it's time to look for a new firewall. No pesky firewall is ever gonna spoil my SS2008 adventures! 8)
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many people hate norton but i have it and its firewalls never bloack internet from games such as shipsim.
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You can get spyware that just tries to use ANY program as a disguise to access the net... think about it... You aren't suspicious of the program as you recognise the name... Yet if spyware.dll asked for access you'd deny it.
Stu