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Zombie Grinder is the debut game of TwinDrills, an indie game development duo made up of Tim 'Infini' Leonard and Jordan 'Jordizzle' Chewning. It's a multi-platform (windows, mac, Linux!) (also Free!) cooperative multiplayer arcade game, reminiscent in style and gameplay of retro games like 'Zombies Ate My Neighbors' and 'Super Smash TV!', but with the added benefit of some newer game mechanics - achievements, ranking, player-customization, rpg style stats and so forth. The game sports a variety of different game modes, from co-operative 'campaign' style levels, to wave maps and even the classic 'pvp' style game modes - deathmatch, capture the 'bag' and so forth. All of these mods are bristling with a variety of weapons and items, all lovingly displayed in Jordan's classic quirky pixel-art style.

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Unable to connect to server... (Games : Zombie Grinder : Forum : Bug Reports & Support : Unable to connect to server...) Locked
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Sep 2 2013 Anchor

First, sorry for my English, I'm a young French guy.
So I juste Dowloaded the game and tried to launch it.
The problem is when I want to start the Tutorial, the loading screen freez and send me to the menu with the message : "Unable to connect to server".
My sister have'nt any problem and I tried all that I can...
Win 7, Firewall down, Nvidia video card ...
Please help me

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase....

Infinitus
Infinitus Developer
Sep 3 2013 Anchor

Local games are run using a separate local server. If you cannot connect to it chances are your either running with restricted permissions (client cannot start the server - make sure you run the game as admin), or a firewall or similar is blocking the port it operates on (57897).

It's either one of those are your computer is slow enough that the client is timing out before the server is fully started. This shouldn't really happen as the timeout is an entire minute ;_;

Check those things and get back to me.

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Sep 4 2013 Anchor

I tried to open the port 57897, I cut my Firewall, and my new PC is quite good.
I use Microsoft Security Essantials as an antivirus, and I have the same problem on another PC with the same antivirus, is it a problem?

Oh and I ran the game as admin

And I saw that during the loading, one of the two instances stop at 50%

In the task manager

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