Irrlicht Engine

Unzip Irrlicht 0.6, check the bin/VisualStudios/ directory and run Quake3Map.exe.

Zonealarm says it is trying to connect to the internet.

H:\irrlicht-0.6\bin\VisualStudio\Quake3Map.exe

Why would it do that? It hasn't before.

I would amagin that it was not the demo but rather visual studio doing something and zone alarm was fooled somehow.

I would amagin that it was not the demo but rather visual studio doing something and zone alarm was fooled somehow.

Trying it with Kerio: nope, none of those apps are trying to connect anywhere... are you sure ZoneAlarm is sane?

stoffe wrote:... are you sure ZoneAlarm is sane?

I asked myself the same question.
Hey, you've got the source and can recompile the demo if you like. I did not know that Irrlicht has already Network-support built in.

When I run the Techdemo and select the DirectX8 device, my firewall reports its trying to connect to the internet.

But when I select the OpenGL device it just runs as 0.5 did.

I use Agnitum Outpost as firewall so if ZoneAlarm is unsane, this one is unsane too.

As I don't have VS installed if seems odd that Visual Studio is causing this problem.

Techdemo is a troyan! I knew it!

Maybe it is Internet Explorer that does something, I remember I had some problems of this kind. Try changing the 'connections' settings in Explorers 'Internet Options'.

I connect through Bellsouth DSL homeportal. The connection options in Internet Explorer don't seem valid.

I use Windows XP. Does anyone else with Windows XP not have a problem, or those without it have one? Maybe its responsible somehow.

When something goes wrong on a computer, there is a 99% chance its Microsoft's fault.

Could DirectX8 be accessed in such a way that would make it connect to the net through the program using it?

I did some searching and found this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -US;810202

So there was a problem in the past which they might not have fixed. They said there was a problem so they stopped having Internet Explorer use it. But its still used by those designing software, so I suppose .... I don't know.

But it is certainly the fault of DirectX.

I have had it do this as well. I am wondering if it is in some of the bogus code bloat that microsoft has included in its net code. That and trying to launch messenger, and netmeeting and half a dozen other spy bot things out of MicroSnot winblows

originally posted on ParaKnowYa: ATI, Spyware and the Catalyst drivers
It is IE6 that is trying to connect crl.microsoft.com to verify certificates. You can uncheck this function in PROPERTIES/ADVANCED/SECURITY. uncheck server request and verification of certificates.
This happens with installer and with every applicaton that uses directX.

I found that when searching the net for a solution.

Anyway, I went into Internet Explorer, and unchecked a lot of options, and one of them was the problem. I didn't see what the guy I just quoted was saying, but after stumbling around a bit, I managed to uncheck the right thing apparently.

No further problems.