Klockworx on 5/3/2005 at 21:12
"I personally had McAfee firewall stopping the level from loading but I couldn’t see anything as Thief 3 just appeared to hang and load forever. Then I noticed I could make the mouse pointer show up in a certain section of the screen, and in certain smaller sections it changed to a pointing hand, and I realized it was the invisible McAfee window asking me to give permission for Thief to access the internet as it had done for other programs from time to time. So I clicked blindly where I guessed the “Allow Access” button usually was, and it worked after that!."
-- Pasted from KoMaG's T3Ed tutorial
This reaks of unwholesome-icky-badness. Perhaps I have spent a bit too long in Diablo2 land to trust a program that demands random clicking THROUGH a loading screen to allow unlimited internet acess.
What file do I need to add to the exeptions list, and secondly, why? Is this editor even going to work if I try to use it on a computer with no internet?
Komag on 5/3/2005 at 21:47
It wouldn't normally require "random clicking through a loading screen", it's just how the McAfee notice popped up on my PC in Windows. I wouldn't worry, but I am at least curious why it seeks internet access
David on 5/3/2005 at 21:49
I don't know the answer, but suspect it may be some remenant of source code control at Ion as there are a fair few references to checking resources in and out in it.
OrbWeaver on 5/3/2005 at 22:02
Quote Posted by Klockworx
What file do I need to add to the exeptions list, and secondly, why? Is this editor even going to work if I try to use it on a computer with no internet?
There's an easy way to find out.
Click the Deny button rather than the Allow button, and see what breaks.
Klockworx on 6/3/2005 at 01:33
The sad thing is that I only have Norton 2003, running on Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2. I cannot Alt-Tab to see where to approve access, or even Alt-F4. Hell, even Ctrl-Alt-Del laughs at me.
Then again this may be a blessing ... To figure out how to defeat the firewall, I need to get into some areas that need strange approval. And that means.... PORN. But you guys gotta back me up if my GF asks why I was at hornypeter.com :ebil:
Random on 6/3/2005 at 03:22
Before I ran the editor for the first time, I just told ZoneAlarm to allow access for t3.exe and T3Main.exe (not sure which one needs it) in the Thief3Edit folder, so I don't get the popup.
Quote:
Is this editor even going to work if I try to use it on a computer with no internet?
I have dialup and the editor works fine when I'm not connected to the internet ...
Klockworx on 6/3/2005 at 14:42
Ok, got it working finally. I redid my editor install, and this time did NOT delete content\maps or content\video textures. Seems to be working now.
tiger@sound.net on 18/4/2006 at 01:00
Quote Posted by OrbWeaver
There's an easy way to find out.
Click the Deny button rather than the Allow button, and see what breaks.
Exactly.
I simply told my Freedom firewall to generally block those Thief3 executes and BINGO, no popups, mates! :thumb: (And who, in their right mind, would want a game called
Thief accessing the internet for them,
anyway?) :joke:
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And does anyone really open-up their firewalls for that Garrett Loader? :confused:
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Komag on 18/4/2006 at 01:38
GarrettLoader allows you to download community voting tabulations, and upload your votes/scores to the database, so it has legit internet connection needs. I believe plans are (or already in place?) for it to also send error reports on problems so that the they can get fixed for future versions.
deadman on 22/4/2006 at 00:44
Quite interesting. I pulled up Outpost Firewall and looked through the Application list just for kicks... Didn't see any entries for T3 or T3Main anywhere (neither the blocked, nor partially allowed), so this means my firewall was never prompted to take action. As I have a good firewall :laff:, I can only wonder why others received this prompt. I'm not using the wrong T3 and T3Main executables, am I? ;p
