Internet Speed

[Knishook]

Why is this game causing my internet to just stop working until I shut down the game and reset the modem? Forget about playing co-op with a friend - I cant even run spotify or open a website on another computer, or tablet/phone while it's running!

It's suspicious as hell and makes zero sense, no other game does this to my connection.

[Arc]

If you have to reboot modem/router to get your network running again, it should be a big enough hint that the problem is not the game (whatsoever).

There's a lot of potential aspects you should look into, such as:
- Are you connected via wireless link instead of cable ?
- Is it just DNS service that gives up ?
- Is it the modem/router itself ?
- Is it ISP blocking connections or using FUP limits ?
- Are cables OK ?
- Do you have packet loss when the network is laden ?
- Is your router hitting CPU limits when routing packets ?

And so on and so forth.

[Knishook]

Im connected via ethernet, this is the only game that does this. It immediately starts on launch of the this game in particular - and doesn't stop until the game is closed, I reset the modem to speed it up, otherwise it takes a few minutes to settle. Other devices connected via wifi and pcs connected via ethernet all lose connectivity.

For example, youtube is unusable on any device while the game is running. And in game it drops out of online frequently. It is not the modem, it is not the pc, it is not the service provider. The only common denominator is this specific game.

[Arc]

The game may send a tons of packets and do whatever with them, your network should be able to handle that easily.
If it would affect just your PC, it would virtually always be caused by antivirus, actual malware, proxy drivers getting blocked by anti-cheat and network stack of that PC in general (listed from most common that I have seen over the years).

If you have 5G modem, your ISP is likely throttling you down.
Commerical routers, especially V/A-DSL modems/routers (and especially from ISPs) are not great in terms of processing power, and once you add few firewall rules and NAT rules they crumble under load.

[AlexGGL]

Same issue here (i play on game pass) and it just makes internet connection unusable but in my case, it only happens to my computer and not other devices

[Arc]

Originally posted by AlexGGL:

Same issue here (i play on game pass) and it just makes internet connection unusable but in my case, it only happens to my computer and not other devices

Is Easy Anti-Cheat blocking something ? (there's usually a popup bubble info on the tray bar).
Have you excluded the game from antivirus scans ?

[AlexGGL]

Originally posted by Arc:

Originally posted by AlexGGL:

Same issue here (i play on game pass) and it just makes internet connection unusable but in my case, it only happens to my computer and not other devices

Is Easy Anti-Cheat blocking something ? (there's usually a popup bubble info on the tray bar).
Have you excluded the game from antivirus scans ?

Gonna try this later, I´ll update if it works doing that

[AlexGGL]

Playing completely offline, with internet connection turned off on the pc and when u finish playing turn it on its the best solution I´ve encountered at the moment