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Problem application not starting

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hi all,

its long time, used to play a lot before many years.
again today i tried to install it and play again but i have some issues.

windows 1 enteprise - laptop lenovo x1 carbon

the application is not starting at all, cursor is moving but nothing displayed, no app at the bckgnd.

laptop had defender on, caanot disable it as its a corporate laptop, however i added rules for inbound/ outbound for the bzflag.exe

any views where is the issue?

many thanks
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I'm not too familiar with windows, but can you perhaps fetch some logs of what is happening when you run the app?

The client should run normally without having to change any firewall configs, the issue likely lies elsewhere.
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What version of the game are you running? What graphics chip and driver version are you using?
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I am having a similar issue - but I'm running on osX. I played seamlessly about 7 days ago (multiple runs in one day), but the game would not start up a few days later. I tried again today and it is still not working. When opening the application, the screen turns black as if to open, then returns to my desktop screen. Any thoughts?
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soup_up wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 3:09 pm I am having a similar issue - but I'm running on osX. I played seamlessly about 7 days ago (multiple runs in one day), but the game would not start up a few days later. I tried again today and it is still not working. When opening the application, the screen turns black as if to open, then returns to my desktop screen. Any thoughts?
When I try to run the program from the contents package, it returns this error:

Could not initialize SDL-Audio: Audio target 'Who' not available.
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