EGG Posted November 5, 2019 Posted November 5, 2019 (edited) Symptoms About 2-3 weeks ago I started having issues connecting to MP servers, specifically with the game stalling on the Clouds screen with "Please Wait" shown below. Sometimes I can connect, sometimes I'll try again the next hour or day and I can't. However the success rate on connecting seems to be dropping from 70% to about 20%. Tonight I've tried and failed to connect to GAW, 104th, BlueFlag, TTI-Aus. All Caucasus maps. The last message in DCS.log when it stalls on this screen is: 2019-11-05 14:26:20.663 INFO Dispatcher: loadMission Done: Сontrol passed to the player And if it succeeds it will write: 2019-11-05 14:26:20.663 INFO Dispatcher: loadMission Done: Сontrol passed to the player 2019-11-05 14:26:20.663 INFO NET: sync seems good, telling server we are ready 2019-11-05 14:26:20.924 INFO NET: MsgClientInit(serverTime=49622.171759, modelTime=4996.565039) 2019-11-05 14:26:20.924 INFO NET: local time=47.924837, offset=49574.418087, error=0.005100, samples=16 2019-11-05 14:26:20.924 INFO NET: scheduled start at 47.748644 2019-11-05 14:26:20.924 INFO NET: MsgClientRun (then more stuff) What I've tried I've tried repairing DCS, no change. I've also tried completely reinstalling DCS (and removing all files and \Saved Game\ data) without SRS/Tacview, still the same however. No mods are installed. What I've ruled out DCS is Open Beta on an M.2 NVMe, 64Gb RAM. It can load singleplayer lightning fast and has no trouble with FPS. I'd previously been playing DCS MP for about 2 years and built a new PC maybe a month ago. My ping is around 110 to Aus and 240-270 to US servers. No wireless on local networking. No firewall messages. Anyone have any ideas? It makes it difficult to hook up with a wingman when I'm unable to connect. Edited November 8, 2019 by EGG
EGG Posted November 28, 2019 Author Posted November 28, 2019 So it appears to be linked to other internet activity. I'm on a 50mbit connection, but if there's a slow rate download going on (around 100kb/s) then it will have much more trouble syncing. I'm surprised it takes this little to destabilize it, the other day I was playing AoE II multiplayer while the 16Gb HD pack accidentally downloaded in the background without me really noticing.
IronAsh1357 Posted November 29, 2019 Posted November 29, 2019 I have exact same issue but all the time not only if something is downloading. It works when I have a VPN enabled, which is weird. Any help would be much appreciated.
spc8 Posted December 1, 2019 Posted December 1, 2019 Same issue here, unfortunately i wasn't playing for a month or two and when back it seemed not working properly anymore. Tried repairing and cleaning to no avail. As the others are suggesting, any help would be much appreciated.
Joebooty Posted December 2, 2019 Posted December 2, 2019 Pretty similar issue here as well. When I try to join a server I get a loading screen that lasts forever. It never gets to the point it tell me its loading the map or anything. I've tried router resets, checking my firewall, restarting both DCS and my PC, my network extender, repairing DCS. Nothing works all i get is, Loading.......
spc8 Posted December 4, 2019 Posted December 4, 2019 I was hoping in today update to be able to play again in MP. The wait was killing me so i tried some of the past suggested solutions to this problem. Like, delete the savegame folder, but it didn't work. Can we have a solution? Should we provide logs? (EGG already did but i can do it too if necessary) I'm not using any antivirus software and the firewall allows DCS to go through. I've been trying to solve it since i wrote my first post, a couple of days ago. Many people tried to be helpful but nothing worked. Depression starts to kick in! :(
ED Team c0ff Posted December 5, 2019 ED Team Posted December 5, 2019 Not syncing means that UDP packets do not go through. Check your firewall rules. Dmitry S. Baikov @ Eagle Dynamics LockOn FC2 Soundtrack Remastered out NOW everywhere - https://band.link/LockOnFC2.
spc8 Posted December 5, 2019 Posted December 5, 2019 TCP/UDP are router rules isn't it? I'll go check them too, i'll let you know if it worked or not. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!
spc8 Posted December 5, 2019 Posted December 5, 2019 I had a look at my tcp/udp rules, on the router i have both 10308 and 10309 open for DCS. I'm still at the loading screen, "please wait" and clouds. Same message in the log as the other users, "Dispacther: loadMission Done: Control passed to player", nothing else.
EGG Posted December 6, 2019 Author Posted December 6, 2019 In my case if it was Firewall rules (Windows or router) it would be applying 100% of the time. But sometimes I can get in and sometimes I can't. A couple of people (one here, and one on PM) have mentioned the problem goes away if they use a VPN, so I'll try this next time I see the issue.
spc8 Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 I checked my firewall rules, some say you have to put it in private net only. I tried that but didn't work, so i deactivated the firewall completely, nothing happened. I tried to see if changing map on the server solved the issue, but no. The server sees me as connected, but i'm on the waiting screen with control only of my cursor and can't use windows keys, shift-tab or ctrl-esc, just call the task manager with ctrl-alt-del and kill the process. The only things happening while i was away the past months were a couple of updates of DCS and a couple of updates from Windows. Most of the users are still playing, so i tried to go back in time with Windows updates, deactivating the recent ones. Nothing again. @EGG i'll try VPN too hoping it will solve it. The mistery continues :)
spc8 Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 I solved my issue thanks to Auntystatic, she led me to examine my router. I plead guilty on this one. A 4g booster was added to the router while i was away. Apparently the router harware supports upnp only on the port the booster was added. Shifted the ethernet port, the issue was solved. Could connect again to any server. Totally my router problem, nothing to do with DCS or Windows. I hope it will help others, perhaps changing the ethernet port of your router will allow you to play again, apparently they are not the same, not in my case. Thanks for your patience!
gercarst Posted December 9, 2019 Posted December 9, 2019 Hey, same problem here, tried the same possible solutions without success. Haven't tried a VPN, but I don't think that's a real (lasting) solution. Cheers.
IronAsh1357 Posted December 10, 2019 Posted December 10, 2019 A VPN is not a good fix since it makes my latency so high it is almost impossible to do a2a refuel in server or formation fly
PinkyandBrain Posted December 20, 2019 Posted December 20, 2019 I am experiencing the same issue since a few weeks now, can't relate to any change that might have been occured to my system in form of windows or dcs updates… All servers are visible but if i want to connect i am stuck forever in the "Please wait…" screen until i timeout...
Boomer_QLD Posted December 22, 2019 Posted December 22, 2019 Multiplayer issue: Please Wait We have two people in our 62nd Fighting Falcons group who have now got this problem. We can’t seem to find what is causing it, and it’s a real bummer for those guys. Any ideas would be appreciated. Cheers Boomer
Boomer_QLD Posted December 23, 2019 Posted December 23, 2019 This seems to be a continuing real issue for two of our group. One of them is lodging a ticket with ED after trying lots of possible solutions. They really need to have a look at this.
tariq Posted March 4, 2020 Posted March 4, 2020 We had this issue on our dedicated server with one of our players. It was very odd, he only had this issue with our server and could connect to others just fine. His router was a bit old and did not support UPnP, instead it had a page for Port Triggering. After hours of trial and error we found a configuration where he was able to connect again. Client Side Enabled port triggering on ports 50,000 to 55,000 (both TCP and UDP) Server Side Changed dedicated server to run on a port in that range (in our case, 51587) Port forward that port for the dedicated server Added to the server's Saved Games\DCS\Config\autoexec.cfg: net.use_upnp = false
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted March 4, 2020 ED Team Posted March 4, 2020 Also ports and protocols here https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=252109 Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
krakovv Posted March 21, 2020 Posted March 21, 2020 Hi, i have the exact same problem with "Please wait screen" and can't at all connect to any server. I mean that is the problem, why all other multiplayer games work but DCS does not? Any help would be really useful;)
eddyimac Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 Same Problem Here. "Please wait screen". Any Help? Thanks!!
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted March 22, 2020 ED Team Posted March 22, 2020 I solved my issue thanks to Auntystatic, she led me to examine my router. I plead guilty on this one. A 4g booster was added to the router while i was away. Apparently the router harware supports upnp only on the port the booster was added. Shifted the ethernet port, the issue was solved. Could connect again to any server. Totally my router problem, nothing to do with DCS or Windows. I hope it will help others, perhaps changing the ethernet port of your router will allow you to play again, apparently they are not the same, not in my case. Thanks for your patience! Thank you for letting us know, will mention it to the team Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
krakovv Posted March 23, 2020 Posted March 23, 2020 I have solved my problem by asking my ISP to get me off the CG-NAT routing which they did and now everything is ok. But i don't know why it is a problem because all the other multiplayer games worked.
EGG Posted March 26, 2020 Author Posted March 26, 2020 I meant to post back here (I thought I had done) to say that the problem was CG-NAT on my ISP also. Once that was removed it was a lot easier to get in. And similar to krakovv I hadn't had the problem with other multiplayer games also.
ED Team c0ff Posted March 30, 2020 ED Team Posted March 30, 2020 We are testing a fix which may help for those behind CG-NATs. Dmitry S. Baikov @ Eagle Dynamics LockOn FC2 Soundtrack Remastered out NOW everywhere - https://band.link/LockOnFC2.
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