Games Won't Start

[jussisguy]

i have been interested in buying Defcon for some time now and so downloaded the demo. it installs and runs fine but when i try and start the tutorial it comes up with a box that says starting tutorial and nothing happens. i went into the program file and copied the contents of the debug.txt file

Defcon 1.43 built Jul 3 2007
Parsing archive main.dat...DONE
WinSock started
Client listening on port 5011
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 48ms
Parsing International data (2753 islands) : 26ms
Parsing City data (2745 cities) : 28ms
Parsing archive sounds.dat...DONE
Authentication key set : 'DEMOIZ-TQFSAO-ZCZUXI-MWXREA-FIS'
WinSock started
Connection established to MetaServer, listening on Port 5009
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
Received Authentication : DEMOIZ-TQFSAO-ZCZUXI-MWXREA-FIS : (keyID -1) : Accepted
Auth Key accepted as DEMOKEY : DEMOIZ-TQFSAO-ZCZUXI-MWXREA-FIS
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
NetSocketSession::WriteData write call failed
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
CLIENT : Disconnected
Disconnected from MetaServer

thanks

[microchip08]

Can you start a normal game?

[frenchfrog]

Defcon cannot access the network, could it be firewalled?