Crossfire Run Time

Go to your 'Firewall' options, via Control Panel.
give all .exe files in the 'Program Files/Z8Games/CrossFire' folder permission through your firewall, even if it's turned off.

First off, click the 'Start' menu, or Windows icon at the bottom left.



Click on the 'Control Panel' option.





Next, scroll down to the bottom, until you find 'Windows Firewall', as highlighted above. Double click this.

Note: It's also advised you switch off Windows Defender whilst installing CrossFire.
For details on how to do this, follow this link.





Select 'Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall', as highlighted in yellow, above.





You'll the be greeted with this window, select 'Change settings', highlighted in yellow, which will then allow you to select 'Allow another program', highlighted in red. Click this option.





Select the 'Browse' option, which will open another window, shown below:



Direct the path bar, highlighted red, towards C:// > Program Files > Z8Games > CrossFire.

You should have the same path, as highlighted in red.

Once you've found this, individually add all programs highlighted in yellow above, to the Firewall exceptions list.

An example of an addition, is shown below.




If you get an error regarding something already being on the exceptions list, most likely the CrossFire.exe app, then skip that addition and move onto the next.


Once all these have been added, you're good to go, even with the Firewall on or off.