CnCNet 5 does not connect for me

[will6262]

I downloaded "Red Alert 1 Installer" and installed it.  When I launch Red Alert, the Game Lobby comes up, but it says "Connecting..." and nothing else happens after that.  I have opened up the ports in the Window Firewall as instructed in another Forum post, but that did not help.

I am running Windows 8.  I installed Red Alert 1 on my two other PCs running Windows Vista and everything works fine, so my router must be okay.

 

We were previously running the old game lobby on all 3 PCs in my house without any problems.  Anyone have any ideas.

[Tore]

On the CnCNet 5 login screen try to change the port.

[FunkyFr3sh]

do you have any security programs installed ? I dunno much about the win8 security settings, but maybe you put em too high

[will6262]

Well, I tried all three ports that are available from the login window.  Results are the same; not able to connect.

I turned off Windows Firewall, my antivirus s/w and anti-malware s/w; no luck either.

[FunkyFr3sh]

some security programs still mess things up even if you turn them off, i just helped someone with that problem today (he had comodo)

[will6262]

That would be a possibly except that I have the same security programs on the other two PCs that work fine.

Except of course for the Windows 8 Firewall.  I would think once turned off, that it would be really off, but I'll trying disabling and rebooting.

[will6262]

Oh well.  Uninstalling all my security programs and disabling the firewall did not help.

Something in the new CnCNet 5 doesn't like my Win8 configuration.  Never had problems with the old version on Win8...

Maybe someone will uncover something in the future. 

 

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

[FunkyFr3sh]

you should keep trying some more, i know there are a couple of people using it on win8 without problems

Can't really point you to the right setting tho