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SCC asked a question in Sunbelt Software on January 22, 2009 23:05:
Issues concerning Nintendo Wifi Dongle/'Games for Windows Live' online functionalityI've been using your firewall for a short while now as a replacement for my aging copy of Sygate's personal firewall, which started using the CPU way too much. However, I'm unable to use the online fuctionality in games that use 'Games for Windows Live', nor am I able to use my wifi dongle to allow my nintendo consoles to access the internet unless I disable the firewall first. I have in advanced mode, the 'Any other application' settings are set to 'ask' in all four fields.
The Dongle's software has a registration tool (NintendoWFCReg.exe) that acts as a gateway and only allows registered nintendo devices to access the internet, however I get no prompt to allow it to have access from the firewall, so I cannot use it. In Sygate's firewall I could manually add the program to the applications rule list to set rules for it, which made it work. I can't seem to find the same functionality in your firewall however. The dongle has an entry in the trusted area (Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector - Packet Scheduler Miniport) and the checkbox is marked.
With 'Games for Windows Live' enabled software, the online functionality of the GFWL binary is unusable regardless of whether I allow the game in firewall rules list or not. Fallout 3 and Dawn of War 2 are the games I have personal experience of this issue with. I never got to try either of them with Sygate, but Sygate would always ask me if another component was trying to access the internet like an external DLL (I believe GFWL uses xlive.dll in system32.) GFWL gives me the 0x80151909 error, which according to this page means the service is 'not available'. However, if I disable the firewall, it works fine. Sign out, enable it again, it no longer works.
Is it possible to manually add applications? Will it ever be possible? I can work around it by disabling the firewall but that seems to defeat the point somewhat, doesn't it?
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