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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Yuri's revenge freezes on network screen

So me and my brother tried playing Yuri's revenge on win7, first problem was that we couldn't get into network, googled the issue and found the problem. Next we had the same serials, solved that as w...
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    plokite95
    8 years ago

    @ObliterdeathPC

    What may have happened is that you got a pop-up from your firewall application (Windows Firewall by default) asking whether or not to permit the game to connect to private/public networks. And since the games don't tolerate multi-tasking on newer systems, that's why it seemed to have locked up for you.

    Put "game.exe", "gamemd.exe", "mph.exe", "mphmd.exe", "ra2.exe", "ra2md.exe", and "YURI.exe" (yeah, I know, RA2 and YR have a lot of executables) into your firewall exception lists before trying to connect with someone in multiplayer.

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plokite95
8 years ago

@ObliterdeathPC

What may have happened is that you got a pop-up from your firewall application (Windows Firewall by default) asking whether or not to permit the game to connect to private/public networks. And since the games don't tolerate multi-tasking on newer systems, that's why it seemed to have locked up for you.

Put "game.exe", "gamemd.exe", "mph.exe", "mphmd.exe", "ra2.exe", "ra2md.exe", and "YURI.exe" (yeah, I know, RA2 and YR have a lot of executables) into your firewall exception lists before trying to connect with someone in multiplayer.

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Thanks, I did notice that the one computer with the game that was acting up asked for permission to run the game each time we tried to start it, this solution worked perfectly, thanks again.

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