Crashing Other Player's Games

[Ghost_Spartan19]

I've been having a problem with multiplayer since the game came out. About 25% of the time when I try to join a server the host's game is forcefully closed. I've must of done this to over 10 people by now. I know that it closes the host's game because I've done it to a friend's game about 10 different times while troubleshooting. I'm still occasionally able to join multiplayer games but its hit or miss, mostly I just disconnect before joining. I figure that I'm having some kind of network issue that I've yet to solve. There are no crash reports so there must be some kind of network related bug that has given me this power to end another player's game. I have emailed the support team twice and posted something under the multiplayer bug reports, but I've yet to hear anything back. If you were one of the unfortunates who's game I crashed I'm sorry but I needed some way to test the various fixes I've tried. With that being said it will still probably happen from time to time as I try to troubleshoot this issue. If you have an idea of how to fix the problem I'm all ears.

[Mister Mycelium]

This makes me think that you're not having a network issue as much as sending some kind of "bad packet" that's causing the host to be unable to handle the request. Like some kind of error that's unexpected. If you have already tried verifying integrity, I would try reinstalling the game. If that doesn't work, I would try disabling the steam overlay in game. Sometimes steam can have its own network issues and many games will have greater success with the overlay turned off and in some games turning on low bandwidth mode and low performance mode in settings>library in steam has been reported to improve stability.

Hope any of this helps!

[Ghost_Spartan19]

Originally posted by Mister Mycelium:

This makes me think that you're not having a network issue as much as sending some kind of "bad packet" that's causing the host to be unable to handle the request. Like some kind of error that's unexpected. If you have already tried verifying integrity, I would try reinstalling the game. If that doesn't work, I would try disabling the steam overlay in game. Sometimes steam can have its own network issues and many games will have greater success with the overlay turned off and in some games turning on low bandwidth mode and low performance mode in settings>library in steam has been reported to improve stability.

Hope any of this helps!

I tried the fixes you suggested and none of them worked. I also ran a test to check for packet loss and there was none. I also managed to crash a couple more games in the process of testing the fixes (not blaming you of course). Thanks for the suggestions any help is always appreciated.