Can you post a PA log? It should have info as to why it's not showing anything. You can find those here: https://wiki.palobby.com/wiki/Planetary_Annihilation_directory
So there are a lot of error there about failing to get anything over the internet. That means something is blocking PA. Most likely a firewall (or anti-virus, but you already tried that). As a test, you can try disabling the firewall and see if that work. If it does, you need to add PA.exe as an exception.
Problem fixed, apparently he already had PA.exe as an exception, but his firewall was blocking something else that stops it working. He just disables his firewall whenever he plays, so unless you have any other suggestions, thanks for the help
Heh, don't completely disable the firewall all the time, that seems like a bad idea. The problem is probably that there are multiple PA.exe's. So there is the one in the main directory, but that links to the one in bin_x64 and bin_x86 subdirectories if I remember correctly. It should work fine if he adds the other two as well. If that still doesn't work, try adding CoherentUI_Host.exe as well, which lives in the host subdirectory.
Ah thank you Adding the other PA.exe's and the UI to the exception has fixed it, it seems. Thanks for the help!
