"data center: searching..."

[؂‘‘⠀ notandum]

recently purchased the game however multiplayer seems to be stuck locked, with it infinitely stating that it's connecting to respawn servers.

i've tried the usual fixes of disabling all not in use network adapters (including hidden ones), making a separate windows user, disabling the firewall, simply waiting, etc etc.
though none of these have seemed to fix the issue.

any other known fixes i should attempt?

[chelmzaツ]

bro, thx sooooo much for help, it worked

[Desert Viber]

Awesome! The fix worked great. Thank you so much!

[DaelaamCrafter]

Originally posted by Silent:

I found a post on r/PavlovGame that mentions this and gives a fix for Intel Ice Lake processors.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PavlovGame/comments/n3hllx/workaround_for_crash_on_launch_bug_for_11gen/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Here are the instructions from the reddit post, in case it gets taken down:

Press Win + E or open File Explorer, right-click on “This PC,” and choose “Properties. Click on “Advanced System Settings.” Under the Advanced tab, choose “Environment Variables.” Under “System variables,” click on “New.” In the “Variable name” box, type this: OPENSSL_ia32cap In the “Variable value” box, type this: ~0x200000200000000 Then click on “OK.” Confirm the addition of the variable to the “System variables” list and choose “OK.”

I had this exact same issue with the data centers and this is the only thing that seemed fix it for me.
Don't ask me how or why it fixed it, system variable stuff goes way over my head.

Edit: Try restarting your pc after doing this, sometimes that also helps. (thanks deadalus)

I have never had anything from a steam thread work before. This actually did. I must say I'm impressed.

[ShadowGaming]

just tried that work around and I Don't think that it works anymore

[Silent]

Rip.
Are you sure you typed in the variable name and value correctly?