Yeah I got the same problem and am working on fixing it. I'm pretty sure that my firewall (ZoneAlarm) doesn't want FL to connect to the global server. Its something to do with FL's port number not cleared, by the firewall, to go through. If you connect to the internet via a router FL's port will need to be ok'ed by that too. I don't know how to do all of this yet but I do know that you can find FL's port number at Microsoft.com. You also might want to check my post about this too its called "Cant Connect to Global Server"


I've explained this as I understand it, I'm not very tech minded in these kinda things so whoever knows more or has had this same problem ect. please correct me and/or explain better.

Well, One problem I found was that I did not have directx 9b. had a I think. Also created dmz on router. But Still no luck. OS: w2k. Fully patched, game has 1.1 patch as well.

I just put DirectX 9b on again and ive patched FL but still no luck. Its got to be my firewall, one of my friends thinks so to, so I'm going to disable it and then see if I can play.

Man, At this point, I have disconnected my router, and jacked right into my nic, I have the freelancer patched, I have a new install of directx9 and still I cannot connect to the global server.