Hello, I've seen one or two posts similar to this on here, but with no solution. I've been online flying for 3 years without a problem, until now. Everything works perfectly, sbrelay connects, fs multiplayer loads fine, Squawkbox loads and connects. Now, after about 1 or 2 minutes, I see a scrolling text in fs2004 reading "squawkbox has left the session" And in sbrelay it reads "Removed player 'Squawkbox' from FS2004 session". I can still however fly perfectly, communicate with ATC, they can hear me with no trouble. I can see tcas traffic. I just can't see other aircraft, or communicate by text in the fs2004 multiplayer chat window. This is a new problem for me after installing service pack 2 for winxp. I find everything runs better but I would like to see traffic again. SO I disabled XP fire wall (I only use the xp firewall) with no help. With it on, I have all programs that work with fs2004 as exeptions. I knew that re installing the software woudn't help but I tried anyway.... still nothing. Any help would be great. I'm convinced that I don't have to uninstall SP2 to get this to work since many users have no prob. My specs:p4 3.0 HTASUS p4c800 deluxeRadeon 9800pro1.0 gig RamWINxp SP2Lets try and figure this out for others who share my problem, and so I can enjoy online flying again! ThanksPaul

Hi Paul.So the SP2 update was the only change you have made?Just for the fun of it, go into the SP2 firewall and on the Exceptions tab add FS/SB SBrelay to that list. As well make sure the lower box 'Display a notification when firewall blocks a program' is checked. Just for fun, maybe the firewall is really not shutting down.What host program are you running? If its the DLL try running SBHost.exe and see what happens.

Hey Dave,Thanks for the reply. Ok, I've already made sure that fs2004 and sbrelay were in the exeptions list. I've tried using the exe rather than the dll of sbrelay, it did the same thing. two weeks ago I reformated my computer, got rid of all the spyware reinstalled a fresh copy of fs2004, and the fs9 patch, then loaded sp2. Ever since that I've had this problem. COuld it have something to do with the spyware programs? Maybe some processes that I've shut down to gain some frames in FS? I appreciate you taking the time to help me out here, I'm dying to fly normally again! And maybe fly cyyz again :) :)Paul