Zephyr Net

Ok, now what happened? Last week i installed LongbowII, which kept hanging with a black screen (actually all three of them) on startup. No way to get back to Desktop. My culprit was the TH2Go as the screen resolution may have been too much to handle for Longbow II.
Too frustrated to push myself through the dance i installed Janes F-18 with it's fancy new TSH4.02 all in one installer. And guess what?
It worked perfectly. Launched the game, Janes intro , TSH intro , singlemission: carrier day landing, break turn, groove, three wire, whiping a tear out of the corner of my eye. And that is without any compatibility setting in windows and no AA slowdown!


Ok now everything is cool, right? NO
The next day i started up jf18 all screens went black just like LongbwII, no joy! Something must have changed.
TH2Go wasn't a problem (without Matrox Desktop). You don't even have to use windowed mode for the sim. I use 1600x1024 and it simply cuts off the left and right side black. Switching from overclocked settings to BIOS default changed nothing. Compatibility modes didn't help either.
Then i noticed that sometimes when i boot i get an error message that "cfp.exe" couldn't load. I googled it and found out that it is a service for COMODO firewall. I closed COMODO and there you go jf18 works. Longbow still crashed, but goes immediately back to desktop. Maybe a memory issue that i have to take a closer look at.

Bottom line: it looks like the Janes titles have probs with this cfp.exe. Giving the sims full rights in COMODO doesn't help. It's the service that crashes them