reported Muliplayer Server Screen Freezing

[Gui_Santos]

Someone with more experience could look into my diagnostics, I've been having major issues with the game freezing every 7-10 seconds, 
it's impossible to play mostly online. My last alternative was to disable windows fullscreen optimization, maybe it solved it,
 I'm waiting tomorrow to try to play on the overlord server

 

TKS

dcs.log DxDiag.txt

[timber29]

Just started happening with the latest 2.8.4.39313 patch. When multiplayer is selected from the main screen the multiplayer screen loads and server list populates. When selecting Map drop down nothing changes, when selecting exit or close window x in upper right corner nothing happens. When selecting Join nothing happens. Selecting servers on the list seems normal and they do highlight.

I did patch tonight and then fly in multiplayer for a bit then shutdown and came back a little over an hour later to this issue. No crash log is available and only way to kill DCS is via task manager. 

[nukemgood]

I have my firewall set to block certain countries, including Russia and China, so that clients can't complete outbound traffic.  This is intentional, in case a computer gets infected and wants to dial home to a command and control node. 

I had no issues about 24 hours ago, and this just started today.  I haven't had any issues previously in DCS.  For example, I was on different US and EU servers in the last few months and there were never problems, nor any problems with the browser.

My firewall determines the countries of IPs and blocks them.  For example 27.191.71.143 is in China, as is 36.150.108.238 and 1.117.207.19.  As far as that part is concerned, this is fine, if the computer can't connect to those servers.

What happens is that the browser starts to populate for the first time and then becomes unresponsive. Not every server in permitted regions load either.  It seems that the browser list downloads part of it and then stalls forever. I click either Exit or the X at the top, but nothing happens.  If I click the refresh button, nothing happens either.

I restarted DCS a few times and the issue seemed to go away, but it was still broken.  The only was to get out of DCS each time was to use Task Manager, as the program would not do anything I clicked on.  The only way I can proceed with using the game is disabling my geoblocking firewall rules.w

Edited April 26, 2023 by nukemgood
Grammar

[nukemgood]

I have this problem too, with no fix.  Nothing I've done on my side resolves it.  I thought it was firewall rules, but it turns out it's something out their system that doesn't seem to be handling the browser list.

[Drumahota]

I have the same problem. There was no issue at all until today. Looks like while refreshing the server list, it gets interrupted somehow and then gets stuck on the server list window. Only way to exit the simulator is to kill the task from the task manager.

[Jazzadanub]

Same with me, just started today. Tried an integrity check, rolled back to old restore point. Same in windowed or VR.

[Kaiser_1-1]

+1

Was working until about an hour ago.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi all

we are looking into the server issues currently 

I see the server list loading, but unable to click the selected server or refresh the server list. 

thank you for your patience 

[BIGNEWY]

Please try restarting DCS and retrying joining a server

It seems to be ok again now

Edit: spoke to soon 

back to freeze again

[450Devil]

dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

thank you for the log

it shows the same as what I am seeing a dropped server return and then a GUI error. 

I have alerted the team 

thank you

[BIGNEWY]

So far on our end everything looks normal, we are still investigating

[timber29]

Seems to be working, thank you for the speedy response!

[BIGNEWY]

4 minutes ago, timber29 said:

Seems to be working, thank you for the speedy response!

no problem, we will continue to monitor 

thank you 

[BIGNEWY]

Users are still seeing issues and we continue to look into it 

thank you

[450Devil]

Just checked and MPdcs.log screen is still freezing the game. Log attached.

[Badger1-1]

Still not working for me

[_Heater_]

DCS.log attached, nothing to add... only sadness

 

 

dcs.log

[_Heater_]

this thing is unbelievable. 

dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

We have found a possible issue and are working on a fix, thank you for your patience 

 

[Burnie]

I'm having this issue too

[CptGurke]

1 minute ago, Burnie said:

I'm having this issue too

It's probably not an issue with the firewall. Check this thread, they are working on it:
 

 

[Jazzadanub]

Already reported

 

[BIGNEWY]

threads merged

[orcus]

Same problem, worked great yesterday frozen today same problem for MT and ST

Edited April 26, 2023 by orcus