Long "Connecting Time" issues. Resolved?

[UncannyGames]

Edit 5/8/23 I'm mnot sure waht may have been fixed or done by Bungie Devs, but the connecting issue has thankfully not been much of a problem. Sometimes it will take a couple minutes with the connect, but no longer the 15 to 20 minutes it used to take so KI guess it okay now.

Edit// Since lightfall came out i hadn't had any issues with this connecting problem, but now today it is doing it again. don't know what to do at this point.

Anyone have issues with destiny 2 where after hitting enter at the title screen it goes into an almost 15 to 25 minute connecting screen? Like its got the dark loading background and the bottom right symbol that says "Connecting"

Its not an issue with our internet, we used to play on playstation and had recently gotten back into destiny but this time on PC because witch queen came out.
My Boyfriend has a good gaming PC with a wired connection and I have a standard gaming laptop with a wireless connection, both are capable of running Destiny just fine.
He was the only one to have this issue at the start, but restarting his computer fully after we looked up some stuff on google helped. I never had the issue when we first started playing, rules this being an internet issue out.

Now the past couple months I am frequently having the issue and restarting my laptop and steam both don't fix it and I am having to wait anywhere from 5 to more frequently 25 minutes for it to get past the Connecting screen. My boyfriend is having the issue less and less.

Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know of a solution?

Edit// For those saying it could be because we are playing on the same wifi, i don't believe it is that. I've been trying to resolve some issues on laptop where my games will start to lag, including destiny, after several minutes of playing and we just put back in the original 8gb ram stick we had in the computer to see if my issues are because of a faulty ram, We had upgraded to 16GB.
I decided to run destiny and im the only one on and am still having the long connecting issue.

[N33MA]

Is this hyperbole or is it actually taking half and hour to log in

[LepraSK]

Connecting to servers, then error message. It's time to play something else.

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by N33MA:

Is this hyperbole or is it actually taking half and hour to log in

I wish it was, but it's happening right now. Waiting again with the same "Connecting" screen, happened also to my boyfriend too, but he is able to restart his computer and not have the issue the second time.

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by LepraSK:

Connecting to servers, then error message. It's time to play something else.

We don't get an error message, just have to deal with waiting for 15 to 25 minutes for it to finish with whatever "Connecting" stuff it's doing, when there aren't any problems with our internet connection, its a fast connection.

[N33MA]

Originally posted by UncannyGames:

Originally posted by N33MA:

Is this hyperbole or is it actually taking half and hour to log in

I wish it was, but it's happening right now. Waiting again with the same "Connecting" screen, happened also to my boyfriend too, but he is able to restart his computer and not have the issue the second time.

Not really sure what the issue is then. I guess you an check on the bungie help forums if there something about that there, but otherwise I'm not sure what you can do. Is this a persistent problem? Has it always been like this, or has it only started recently?

[UncannyGames]

It was a constant issue for my boyfriend, but he was able to correct it by restarting his pc ,but then it would do it again the next day or after a few days. It wasn't an issue for me in the beginning, but has been happening alot more recently. For the past couple days recently it wasn't doing it and i thought it wouldn't do it again, but as of right now while im trying to get back into the game after restarting my laptop, it is doing it again.

[Addictedjoy]

It's issues of your ISP Networking.
It's got to do with your connection from ipv6.
Check your Adapter Status - you need Ineternt Access in ipv4 & ipv6.
Read more about ipv6 - it's an intenet protocol Technology services from your ISP.
In most cases ISP's give ipv6 protocol to get access to internet. but some give this protocol as extra paid services.
Try to use your phone as modem to check - maybe your phone ISP give ipv6.

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by Shoti Barrel:

It's issues of your ISP Networking.
It's got to do with your connection from ipv6.
Check your Adapter Status - you need Ineternt Access in ipv4 & ipv6.
Read more about ipv6 - it's an intenet protocol Technology services from your ISP.
In most cases ISP's give ipv6 protocol to get access to internet. but some give this protocol as extra paid services.
Try to use your phone as modem to check - maybe your phone ISP give ipv6.

I unfortunately don't know anything about ISP Networking, me and my boyfriend play on the same internet.
I don't see how it could be something with our internet because then I would've had these issues at the beginning and my boyfriend is able to correct his issue temporarily by restarting his pc, though he's also just let me know now he hasn't had the issue in a couple weeks, but i'm having the issue constantly.

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by Shoti Barrel:

It's issues of your ISP Networking.
It's got to do with your connection from ipv6.
Check your Adapter Status - you need Ineternt Access in ipv4 & ipv6.
Read more about ipv6 - it's an intenet protocol Technology services from your ISP.
In most cases ISP's give ipv6 protocol to get access to internet. but some give this protocol as extra paid services.
Try to use your phone as modem to check - maybe your phone ISP give ipv6.

I've practically closed the game out 2 to 3 times now trying to figure ouif having a wired connection versus a wireless connection would help, which it made not difference,, all 2 to 3 times it was connecting, but now on the 3 or 4th opening of the game its not doing it. I don't know what is going on with this anymore..

[Ironix8148]

Originally posted by UncannyGames:

Anyone have issues with destiny 2 where after hitting enter at the title screen it goes into an almost 15 to 25 minute connecting screen? Like its got the dark loading background and the bottom right symbol that says "Connecting"...

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Originally posted by UncannyGames:

Now the past couple months I am frequently having the issue and restarting my laptop and steam both don't fix it and I am having to wait anywhere from 5 to more frequently 25 minutes for it to get past the Connecting screen. My boyfriend is having the issue less and less.

Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know of a solution?

First things first Run Steam as Administrator, once you see the black loading screen press CTRL+Alt+Delete then either hit Cancel or bring up the Task Manager (You can leave it up in the background) and click on Destiny 2 on your desktop's taskbar...

(This will usually work for both Steam and Epic Games launcher 89.5% of the time)

...if the screen doesn't change from a black screen to a loading screen within a couple/few seconds then try following portions of this guide for a hotfix:

https://thedroidguy.com/destiny-2-stuck-on-loading-screen-1155208

BEST OF LUCK!!!

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by Ironix:

Originally posted by UncannyGames:

Anyone have issues with destiny 2 where after hitting enter at the title screen it goes into an almost 15 to 25 minute connecting screen? Like its got the dark loading background and the bottom right symbol that says "Connecting"...

:steamlaughcry:*/sarcasm_on*

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Originally posted by UncannyGames:

Now the past couple months I am frequently having the issue and restarting my laptop and steam both don't fix it and I am having to wait anywhere from 5 to more frequently 25 minutes for it to get past the Connecting screen. My boyfriend is having the issue less and less.

Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know of a solution?

First things first Run Steam as Administrator, once you see the black loading screen press CTRL+Alt+Delete then either hit Cancel or bring up the Task Manager (You can leave it up in the background) and click on Destiny 2 on your desktop's taskbar...

(This will usually work for both Steam and Epic Games launcher 89.5% of the time)

...if the screen doesn't change from a black screen to a loading screen within a couple/few seconds then try following portions of this guide for a hotfix:

https://thedroidguy.com/destiny-2-stuck-on-loading-screen-1155208

BEST OF LUCK!!!

It's 4am right now so I may be misunderstanding somethings, this isn't so much a loading screen issue unless the "connecting" screen can be considered a loading screen?

I'm also unsure if any of the steps may help as I am now trying to run the game on my boyfriends Asus ROG gaming laptop to see if it would make a difference and i haven't prior played destiny on his laptop and it also has the connecting issue.

I have also already tried force quitting steam and destiny through the task manager and it did not help, everything for the system and graphics card is up to date and updating everything while the connecting issue was happening did not help.

I have not tried deleting the cache yet, so I may have to tackle that later.

[HugoTaHell]

The problem is both of you are trying to play from the same IP. One of you needs a VPN to get around this.

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by HugoTaHell:

The problem is both of you are trying to play from the same IP. One of you needs a VPN to get around this.

I don't know if that would be the issue as we were playing on the same internet/IP at the beginning, but my boyfriend was the only one having the issue at the start and I did not.

If it were because of us playing on the same internet/IP then this issue would have been going on for both of us at the beginning, right?

It also doesn't seem like the issue as my boyfriend is able to fix his connecting problem temporarily by restarting his PC.

[Ironix8148]

Originally posted by UncannyGames:

Originally posted by HugoTaHell:

The problem is both of you are trying to play from the same IP. One of you needs a VPN to get around this.

I don't know if that would be the issue as we were playing on the same internet/IP at the beginning, but my boyfriend was the only one having the issue at the start and I did not.

If it were because of us playing on the same internet/IP then this issue would have been going on for both of us at the beginning, right?

It also doesn't seem like the issue as my boyfriend is able to fix his connecting problem temporarily by restarting his PC.

If the game is being played on [the] "one user per household rule" via the game itself (and its "anti-cheat" software recognition{s}.... The only way around that would plausibly be to use a VPN for the second user, which would/could add a bit of latency and might not be permitted by the game's TOS "Terms of User" rules.

[UncannyGames]

Originally posted by Ironix:

Originally posted by UncannyGames:

I don't know if that would be the issue as we were playing on the same internet/IP at the beginning, but my boyfriend was the only one having the issue at the start and I did not.

If it were because of us playing on the same internet/IP then this issue would have been going on for both of us at the beginning, right?

It also doesn't seem like the issue as my boyfriend is able to fix his connecting problem temporarily by restarting his PC.

If the game is being played on [the] "one user per household rule" via the game itself (and its "anti-cheat" software recognition{s}.... The only way around that would plausibly be to use a VPN for the second user, which would/could add a bit of latency and might not be permitted by the game's TOS "Terms of User" rules.

I am not familiar with a one user per household rule for the game, didn't know that was something in the game, but a rule like that wouldn't make sense because there will be other households that will have two people playing the game at the same time on the same internet? So they can play together.

Like my sister and her husband play Destiny together on their PS4 consoles on the same internet, so in theory they would have the same issues which to my knowledge they don't, unless they don't have an anti-cheat software for consoles.

Is that a setting that can be turned off or changed in the game settings?

I also would prefer to not do something that would be against the Games TOS and if it brings down my latency then I would be experiencing more lag ontop of the connecting issue and wouldn't be able to enjoy the game as well or participate in iron banner or crucible because i'd be lagging so much that i would be killed at every turn.