Nvidia Forceware ActiveArmor Firewall

I thought they finally had a good, stable release with the latest Nvidia drivers.

Wow, was I wrong. Instead of corrupt downloads, my PC went to hard locking whenever changing firewall profiles.

Just a heads up if anyone experiences stability issues after installing it.

 

I heard it was so awful that I never even bothered installing it.

 

I loved the control you had over it.

 

I just installed the 81.98 drivers today just to see because of your post, if that's what you mean. I've never had any problems with the FW or corrupt downloads. Using an A8N-E ASUS board here with XP pro x32. Thanks for the heads up.

 

No, I'm talking of the motherboard drivers. The 81.98 video drivers work good for me, too.

 

Thanks for the warning. I've just got an Asus A8N-E as well and so far was impressed with Active Armour and the Firewall. Totally agree about the control and ease of use.

 

Try activate Active Armor by punching in some apps or ports, port 80 would be a good one. Then what happens? Default profile dont have entries = no Active Armor. Might still save sanity by disable Armor though.

I got it to work may be 1-2 days with most common apps and ports Armored. But then some regular web pages started to render strangly and a few corrupted downloads came back. Started out with hard locks nvtcp.sys or what it is called and ended up with 95% success. Not many have reached 100%. Total flop considering how much Nvidia pushed it as a major feature of NF4!

Nice features besides the problems Something else than Zonealarm. They mean business or would not have made that huge pdf-file of how to set up, geeky firewall at heart, but not much to do if there are hardware problems. I think that must be the case. Nvidia have only updated "NAM" part of chipset drivers a few times - like they gave up.

 

I forgot something to try. Go into control panel, system and find Nvidia networking controller. In properties, Advanced you set "Checksum Offload" to DISABLED. The wakeup thing I also had disabled. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=checksum+offload+nvidia&btnG=Search and try Nvidias own forums for more info. I cant remember clearly but I think this was what let me use Active Armor, with port 80 which is what matters. 1-2 days almost troublefree but then a few pages started to puzzle up again and I dumped it for good. Cant be bothered and I see the lack of information and few driverupdates from Nvidia as proof they know this is not going to work for all, or that many, heh.

Some solutions depends on connection type and I think also tasks like online gaming but more on Nvidia forum http://forums.nvidia.com/