Hello,
First of all I appreciate the game and therefore I recommended it to a friend. We play it regularly the last couple weeks. But I have a serious problem and tried for days every solution that I found here in the forum and on other plattforms. The problem is even known, but nothing happend in the last six months in those topics.
The friend created a shared world in which he can without a problem join, play and leave. I can see and join this shared world, but if he isn’t in the realm, I get kicked out of it in exactly 2 minutes with the error “Client timeout (6)” or without any information after a short “attempt to reconnect”. If he, the friend, IS in the shared realm and plays normally, I can join and play, but every 2 minutes I get “attempt to reconnect” with the only difference, that it works up until the next 2 minute mark. There is no noticeable lag or stutter, just plain “attempt to reconnect” and then play along. My nearest City is Frankfurt so the latency is about 30 to 40 ms to the Netherlands (EU).
With the ressource monitoring app from windows I could see, that normally it looks like this (windows in german language: send/receive):
But after the reconnection attempt it looks like this:
I would describe it like my client screams in every direction, that it really is here but only if the other player is on the shared realm.
I could recreate this problematic behaviour
- with two other tested shared worlds (one from me, one from another device/family shared account);
- with and without VPN, different VPN services, different routing locations etc.;
- with WIFI and Ethernet connection;
- with and without “start the programm with administrator” with the game.exe and steam.exe;
- with and without steam or nvidia overlay;
- different graphic settings;
- restarted the router, twice;
- verified game files: a few times, 100% correct;
- checked firewall, tried even with deactivated firewall: no difference;
- checked DNS configuration (automated by the router).
Singleplayer on private realm works flawlessly.
Of course, there are probably variables in my house, that could be the cause, but everything possible for now and as far as I know has been checked.
Here is a google-doc-link to all the requested files (logs, DataStore.zip, dxdiag.txt and more). In Player-prev.log are my last attempts without the help from the friend and in Player.log the time with the friend on his shared realm. You can clearly recognize the time stamps between those reconnects: roundabout 2 minutes. There are more errors, that I can’t interpret.
Once again I really appreciate the game and I’m really hyped about the release, but until then it would be awesome, if I could play with my friend without every 2 minutes headaches.
Best regards,
PCGamer
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