The_Great_Sephiroth
Refugee
As somebody who does IT for a living, that's a bad rule. Look at it this way. If you're car won't start why the heck would you check tire pressure? You check the battery, starter relay, ignition switch, etc. It is fairly incorrect common knowledge to disable a firewall or run as admin. Both are absolutely the worst two things one can do. If it runs as admin, you have a permissions issue that could lead to bigger issues down the road. You can also cause permissions issues when saved files are stored with the built-in admin SID.
But I digress, as I could go on and on about the dumb things people do which have nothing to do with fixing an actual problem. If his firewall was blocking traffic to the game executable, nobody else could join. A firewall does not single out an IP and malform packets in an attempt to crash an application.
My personal advice would be this. Go to Steam and uninstall 7 Days. DO NOT REINSTALL YET. Go to the Steam/steamapps/common folder and delete the 7 Days folder (otherwise you do not get a clean reinstall later). Go to your Users/username/AppData/LocalLow folder and either rename (to backup) or delete the folder "The Fun Pimps" as this will clear bad settings and such. Now reinstall the game and just play Navezgane. If it works, then you had a bad setting, you had a bad mod, something left behind after the previous uninstall was bad, whatever. If it continues to happen then, I would be looking for a core game bug, personally.
But I digress, as I could go on and on about the dumb things people do which have nothing to do with fixing an actual problem. If his firewall was blocking traffic to the game executable, nobody else could join. A firewall does not single out an IP and malform packets in an attempt to crash an application.
My personal advice would be this. Go to Steam and uninstall 7 Days. DO NOT REINSTALL YET. Go to the Steam/steamapps/common folder and delete the 7 Days folder (otherwise you do not get a clean reinstall later). Go to your Users/username/AppData/LocalLow folder and either rename (to backup) or delete the folder "The Fun Pimps" as this will clear bad settings and such. Now reinstall the game and just play Navezgane. If it works, then you had a bad setting, you had a bad mod, something left behind after the previous uninstall was bad, whatever. If it continues to happen then, I would be looking for a core game bug, personally.