Does A firewall effect game play??

[AaronM2]

Does A firewall effect
game play?? well i opened ah2 and i clicked on h2h whouldent ever open and wouldent leme do any thing so i have to reset comp and if i take my firewall down my comp gets real slow its not my comp Pentium 4 2.80ghz Hiper threading 512 Mb ram NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128mb APG windows Xp home

[Blooz]

Yes.

Read the sticky posts at the top of this message forum. There is lots of good info there concerning this topic.

[214thCavalier]

Always play with a firewall on and the times i tried without could notice no difference.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by AaronM2
Does A firewall effect
game play?? well i opened ah2 and i clicked on h2h whouldent ever open and wouldent leme do any thing so i have to reset comp and if i take my firewall down my comp gets real slow its not my comp Pentium 4 2.80ghz Hiper threading 512 Mb ram NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128mb APG windows Xp home

Grant access to AH in your firewall so  the game won't get blocked.  I use a firewall and keep it running without any adverse effects to the game.


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[TDeacon]

Using Norton Internet Security 2004 (firewall and antivirus).  Is on when I play game, and no apparent problems, except brief stutters when AH2 loads textures for first time (as discussed in several other threads).  Don't believe this has anything to do with firewall.

[AaronM2]

CC i use McAfee virus scan and firewall and i made it where it trused Ah for my network but would i have to and the MA address and stuff