Hi quantumtime,
Sounds like you have a software firewall such as Nortons, Zone Alarm, etc.,
which is preventing the game from connecting to the network at first.
If you have such a firewall, make sure to add scrabble to it's allowed applications
list. To test the theory before making changes, exit from or disable your firewall.
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quantumtime Wrote:
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| trying to run Scrabble2.
| I get a black screen and an error message
| cscrabble2_application:initialize FAILED to initialize the network engine
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| to get this message I have to ctl/alt/del and click on the ccore application
| once I click OK for the message and open the scrabble screen back up the
| program runs.
| Of course this is extremely annoying
| Anyone have any suggestions?
