quake 3 and nvidia firewall

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If I to an online game I freeze up everytime within seconds of joining the
game. On every freeze up there is a punkbuster message displayed. I have
given q3 permission to access the internet. If I turn off the nvidia
firewall all is well and I can connect and play. Do I need to open up a
port for PB, or is it just a problem between q3 and the nvidia firewall?
Or am I just waaay to numb?

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sittingduck <spam.no.sitting-duck@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
news:Xns968ED091DD0D0duckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com:

> don wrote:
>
>> If I to an online game I freeze up everytime within seconds of
>> joining the game. On every freeze up there is a punkbuster message
>> displayed. I have given q3 permission to access the internet. If I
>> turn off the nvidia firewall all is well and I can connect and play.
>> Do I need to open up a port for PB, or is it just a problem between
>> q3 and the nvidia firewall? Or am I just waaay to numb?
>
> What is the punkbuster message.
> Have you updated punkbuster lately?
> http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=updatepb.php
>
> http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=updatepb.php
>

I have updated PB. The message is (at least the last one)...

pb client: ogc_trans="":must be equal to 0 (ok)
:0 current cvar violations
:cvarlist truncated: use pb_cvarlist to see entire
list

i don't think it's the same message each time, although this is the only
one i wrote down. it appears to me that i lock as soon as pb tries to
connect to wherever it connects. firewall off no problem.

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number5ive@no.no.na.net wrote in
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<snip>

> //////////////////////////
> Swag:
> http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=faq-q3.php
>
> Do I have to re-configure my firewall or proxy to use PunkBuster?
>
> In general, if a connection can play the Game online successfully
> without PunkBuster, then there will be no need to make any
> changes to a firewall or proxy that may be in use when PunkBuster
> is Installed and Enabled.
> PunkBuster communicates over the Internet (and in LAN
> environments) using the same network channels created and used by
> the Game, and therefore requires no changes.
> If, however, you had to adjust your firewall to use the game in
> the first place, you may need to extend that adjustment to
> include ports used by PB's auto-update feature.
> PunkBuster Clients use outgoing UDP Port 24349 to get security
> info from the PunkBuster Master Servers, PunkBuster Servers use
> UDP Ports 24349 and 24305. "
>
>
>

thank you very much. this gives me SOMETHING to try. left to my own
devices i did a clean install of q3, redownloaded pr1.32, reran pbweb a
couple of times, and pulled out a large handful of hair.....i have been
doing a bit research on the nvidia firewall and think i might just lose
it and go back to zonealrm...

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sittingduck <spam.no.sitting-duck@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
news:Xns968FBFCE617DBduckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com:

> don wrote:
>
>> i might just lose
>> it and go back to zonealrm...
>
> Zonealarm is the AOL of firewalls. It sux, IMO.
> Check out sygate, it's free, and runs very well, very trouble-free.
>

I guess I should screw around with this one a bit more. I have more
problems than I thought! I am not even sure if it is the nvidia firewall, I
forgot about the one on my dsl modem/router. Things have changed mucho on
my desk since the good ole days of playing q3 for hours every day on a
machine that would barely run it. One thing for sure I WILL FIGURE IT OUT,
maybe this time I should RTFM.

thanks for your help and suggestions