I think MHWilds is killing my internet

[ikvri]

The first couple of days MHWilds was running perfectly with no problems whatsoever.

Today out of nowhere my internet kept dropping/crashing and would come back only to drop again. I contacted my ISP to see what was going on but they themselves couldn’t find what was going on.

Decided to just hop off for the day since I couldn’t play with my friends. Turn off pc and few minutes later, internet is working perfectly fine. Waited 2 hours to see if it would drop again but it didn’t. Thought it was probably fixed already so I turn on my pc and just be on a discord call. Everything seems fine. Open MHWilds and go online and once again, drops my internet completely.

I was still confused as to why and once I closed wilds it would go back so I jokingly told my friend what if it’s MHWilds making my internet crash. Searched it up just incase turns out it happened with Worlds as well and a couple of people with Wilds.

I’m not so sure of what to do to fix this or what’s even causing this problem. If I can get any help or if capcom can please fix it because that’s actually crazy if a game is causing my internet to crash.

[Ragnell Avalon VTuber]

A long time ago when I had a worse PC, for various reasons I was using a USB-powered network card. With that, if I was doing something particularly intensive (mostly a game), the power supply to the network card could be interrupted, which would obviously cause the network card to stop functioning until it returned.
It's unlikely that it's the game directly causing the issue; what is more likely is that the game is creating a different problem in your system (possibly overheating or overdrawing power), and your network card crashing out is a symptom of that other problem.

[Valkyrie]

Could be the amount of porn you are downloading.

[ikvri]

Originally posted by Ragnell Avalon VTuber:

A long time ago when I had a worse PC, for various reasons I was using a USB-powered network card. With that, if I was doing something particularly intensive (mostly a game), the power supply to the network card could be interrupted, which would obviously cause the network card to stop functioning until it returned.
It's unlikely that it's the game directly causing the issue; what is more likely is that the game is creating a different problem in your system (possibly overheating or overdrawing power), and your network card crashing out is a symptom of that other problem.

I’m on Ethernet though which I’m using the connection that’s installed with the motherboard. Was trying out valorant and although it’s not a heavy game I was able to play a full game without a problem.

[Kronos Prime]

Originally posted by Ragnell Avalon VTuber:

A long time ago when I had a worse PC, for various reasons I was using a USB-powered network card. With that, if I was doing something particularly intensive (mostly a game), the power supply to the network card could be interrupted, which would obviously cause the network card to stop functioning until it returned.
It's unlikely that it's the game directly causing the issue; what is more likely is that the game is creating a different problem in your system (possibly overheating or overdrawing power), and your network card crashing out is a symptom of that other problem.

Well this fundamentally means the game is causing the problem, whether by power draw or else. Especially if it hasn't happened before and very suddenly is an issue with that specific game.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by Kronos Prime:

Originally posted by Ragnell Avalon VTuber:

A long time ago when I had a worse PC, for various reasons I was using a USB-powered network card. With that, if I was doing something particularly intensive (mostly a game), the power supply to the network card could be interrupted, which would obviously cause the network card to stop functioning until it returned.
It's unlikely that it's the game directly causing the issue; what is more likely is that the game is creating a different problem in your system (possibly overheating or overdrawing power), and your network card crashing out is a symptom of that other problem.

Well this fundamentally means the game is causing the problem, whether by power draw or else. Especially if it hasn't happened before and very suddenly is an issue with that specific game.

"The game is causing the problem" especially in the scenarios you mention is inaccurate aas the problem already exists on the systems in the cases you mention, overdra power wise is something you should be preventing via your GPU settings if you have a weaker powersupply installed, overheat is an issue with your cooling solution and you should underclock/volt to prevent it or upgrade yoyur cooling.

Saying its the games fault in these cases is like saying that if are driving in the snow with summer tires and slide while breaking its the breaks that are at fault, like no, the breaks did their job, your car just wasnt kitted for the environment.

[ShadowSkill11]

Lol, why would you call your ISP? As long as your internet gateway can ping out and you can speedtest for approx what you are paying for they are done. You are experiencing what we in IT call a PEBKAC issue. I'd advise learning how to use a computer without a touch screen attached to it.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by ShadowSkill11:

Lol, why would you call your ISP? As long as your internet gateway can ping out and you can speedtest for approx what you are paying for they are done. You are experiencing what we in IT call a PEBKAC issue. I'd advise learning how to use a computer without a touch screen attached to it.

If your ISP provides your modem then they also generally provide support for hardware and software issues with that modem.

The modem randomly shutting down for one is very clearly a hardware or software issue with the modem itself

[Trash Penguin]

Joining in to say I’m having the exact same issue. As of yesterday Monster Hunter wilds will cause my PC to lose all internet access when it attempts to connect to the game servers. No other game or application is doing this, just MH wilds. Closing the game immediately brings internet back. And yes this is just on my pc, my phone can access the internet perfectly fine while my pc is not able to. I have done everything mentioned in this thread and it has not solved the issue.

This is clearly a monster hunter wilds specific issue causing these problems.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by Trash Penguin:

Joining in to say I’m having the exact same issue. As of yesterday Monster Hunter wilds will cause my PC to lose all internet access when it attempts to connect to the game servers. No other game or application is doing this, just MH wilds. Closing the game immediately brings internet back. And yes this is just on my pc, my phone can access the internet perfectly fine while my pc is not able to. I have done everything mentioned in this thread and it has not solved the issue.

This is clearly a monster hunter wilds specific issue causing these problems.

This is a different issue than OP had, OPs issue was that their modem was just shutting off.

[PhalseDemeise]

Had an issue, years ago with xfinity, net would randomly drop while gaming. about 10 calls to support, 2 tech visits and the problem still persisted. We even rearranged the house to try and get better coverage, which moved me into the living room. It was then that i noticed, every time my roommate used the microwave, net went down. Turns out the microwave and modem operate on the same frequency.

[hûrl]

I have exactly the same problem, just like friends who also play Monster Hunter Wilds.

[Arcane]

today this exact issue happened, but i have been playing diligently everyday since launch without encountering it. once i reach the connecting to server page (trying to find my squad lobby), whole pc internet just dies on me. shortly after closing the game, every internet connection is back to normal (discord, youtube etc).

[Chief_Cleef]

Same thing is happening to me. It is also device dependent. If I open MHWilds, all other devices are kicked off of my router. I ran into this issue initially by trying to reduce the cpu load on my main pc while still being able to have a browser open.

Any ideas?

It kicks my tv, laptop, phone, aura frame, everything off the wifi when I open it up. It is immediate on launch. 100% only the change is the game starting.

Edit: It has been doing this since launch as well, so it's not a recent change for me, I just didn't realize it was happening to other people until I searched.

[KYL]

Originally posted by Trash Penguin:

Joining in to say I’m having the exact same issue. As of yesterday Monster Hunter wilds will cause my PC to lose all internet access when it attempts to connect to the game servers. No other game or application is doing this, just MH wilds. Closing the game immediately brings internet back. And yes this is just on my pc, my phone can access the internet perfectly fine while my pc is not able to. I have done everything mentioned in this thread and it has not solved the issue.

This is clearly a monster hunter wilds specific issue causing these problems.

i'm experiencing the same thing :((((((
any solution?

[Illumina]

A game could conceivably overwhelm a cheap/old enough router.
There was once a time I would bog down every connection in the house when I pinged the TF2 server list.