Is there anything in the firewall I may need to configure as well, or elevated permissions to use when running the scraper?
I'm not that familiar with the Windows firewall, I think a good test could be to completely disable it and see if the scraping goes well. Other than that I noticed some settings in the attract.cfg that clash with the way Arcadeflow works:
- Arcadeflow is set as displays menu layout, this is something that doesn't work well: you need to set the displays menu layout to default.
- Attract Mode is set up to start in displays menu, but if you are using AF there's no need to use this setting, and will actually be a problem You should set the startup mode to default, and then if you want AF to start in the displays menu list, there's an option in AF for that.
- I suggest you enable "power saving", it should reduce a lot the load on your system because AF can be a bit heavy
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That said, none of those should impact the scraping process, did you enter your screenscraper credentials in AF options?