Registered on this site just to inform you guys, that I have the exact same issue. You could exclude the video card problem because if it does have one, you won't even able to play the game even in single mode. It shouldn't take long though if you have only preset scenarios in the folder.
The more maps you have, the longer you have to wait. It has to load all the maps before displaying the screen. The game loads awfully slow when your scenario/save folder has lots of maps. This happens a lot when it's the 1st time you install the firewall or the first time you run the game because the security has no rules about your game.īesides, the Groll has a point though. Did you try switching screen to windows desktop to see if there were pop-ups from security software about the game? The game could hang because the security software blocked access to certain area of the system. I have never used F-Secure (can't afford it) but I did use ZA free version a few years ago and such problems never happened to me.
I use Comodo as firewall (freeware if you ask) and I did not have any problem hosting games before getting my ports forwarded. He should be able to reach the scenario screen to get the game set up and all. Although I thought of the firewall possibility, IMO it only blocks the game from seeing the host and blocks the others from seeing this computer as a host.
