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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eagle of Fire @ Sep 4 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]308722[/snapback]</div>

Lately, I've purchased a new game named City Life. If you didn't hear about this game, it's just like a clone of Sim City, but instead of focusing on the city as an administrator, you focus on the city as a humanitarian and must agence everything so the six types of people who can come to your city coexist in peace.

However, what I have to say about this game doesn't really turn around gameplay... Which is a shame, because it does look interesting and quite original, and the game run quite smoothly when it does run... No, what I have to say about this is, unfortunatly, what doesn't work in the game... Namely, those incredible brains behind the creation of the game didn't think valid or usefull to code the game so it would be possible for a Windows user to be able to tab back to the desktop without crashing the game, or that it would not be important to see that the game is able to run without interferences from the most popular apps (free or not) available on the web those days. In my case, Zone Alarm... (which is a fricking firewall, if you by any chance didn't know what it is... And one of the most, if not the most, popular free firewall around.)

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I use ZA all the time and it can be a little bit of a pain to set up but if you have the new version you can turn on ' game mode ' by right clicking on the taskbar icon this will allow you to set all requests to allow although this is a bit of a blungt aproach !, you can also check the programs list for the program and ammend the internet settings before playing and set the trust level.

one other thing to check is the ZA 'program' logs as this will show what has happened abd if anything was blocked, also check windows event logs for any other issues.