what is up with these games and wrecking your internet connection?

[Fart Receiver]

I've had to problem with war thunder too, but now I tried out their new game "enlisted" and had the same problem. The moment I finished installing it my internet slowed to a crawl, almost a complete standstill. I wasn't able to even login to the game or even load a web page. I uninstalled the game, restarted my computer and everything worked fine again.

I have 1000/1000 fiber optics, even if the game is downloading several GB of files this shouldn't happen and it's something that I have only seen happen with War Thunder and Enlisted.

[RustyNail]

That sounds very odd.

"1000/1000" is a spec that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. You're connecting to the internet - and it can have problems, bottlenecks, etc., that will absolutely affect your performance.

If you're connecting to your own router via wireless, in area where the wireless channels you're using are congested - that alone can cripple your throughput.

There's just too many things to list. I'd start trying to diagnose with running some tracerts (or the equivalent for your own OS) to different end points, and at different times of the day, to see if you can spot any issues.

[Root]

My understanding is that Gaijin uses Peer to Peer updating, so when your game is updated, you are a server for other players. My ISP really didn't like that and started disconnecting me every 15min till I turned off P2P

[-NODER-_Novastorm_]

Originally posted by Root:

My understanding is that Gaijin uses Peer to Peer updating, so when your game is updated, you are a server for other players. My ISP really didn't like that and started disconnecting me every 15min till I turned off P2P

I think you can disable seed/ download options on start menu, there is a wrench icon box you click there and disable it.