Can't play Online with VPN

[Death Comes After Taxes]

I wanted to play with my friends, but I had some problems, so I download VPN (and it helped). I tried to log in into GTA Online session but the game says that there is a problem with sychronizing game files with server. Can anyone help?

[[-iD-]]

ask the vpn at their website. otherwise i say "don't use a vpn"

[Wolfsun]

So ya fell for the VPN hype too. How's that feel? Suck.s - don't it?

That particular error you're getting is quite common with VPN's especially Nord.

Plus more than enough sites are detecting VPN's now and they essentially are giving you the single fingered salute.

So - like the previous poster suggested, "don't use a vpn".

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by HiI'mJade:

I wanted to play with my friends, but I had some problems, so I download VPN (and it helped). I tried to log in into GTA Online session but the game says that there is a problem with sychronizing game files with server. Can anyone help?

what VPN are you using and what kind of protocol are you using?

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by Wolfsun:

So ya fell for the VPN hype too. How's that feel? Suck.s - don't it?

That particular error you're getting is quite common with VPN's especially Nord.

Plus more than enough sites are detecting VPN's now and they essentially are giving you the single fingered salute.

So - like the previous poster suggested, "don't use a vpn".

So you don't understand how VPN's work? How's that feel? Sucks - don't it?

maybe if you understood how a VPN works you would not make ignorant statements like you did.

You say the particular error he got is common, but he never even said what error he was getting. So can you read minds? maybe stay in school kid.

[Death Comes After Taxes]

Originally posted by Soosmokie:

Originally posted by HiI'mJade:

I wanted to play with my friends, but I had some problems, so I download VPN (and it helped). I tried to log in into GTA Online session but the game says that there is a problem with sychronizing game files with server. Can anyone help?

what VPN are you using and what kind of protocol are you using?

I'm poor so i use Windscribe, they service was working week ago. Protocols - I've tried everything that is in Windscribe, so IKEv2, TCP, Stealth and WSTunnel



Here's link to they FAQ: https://windscribe.com/faq

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by HiI'mJade:

Originally posted by Soosmokie:

what VPN are you using and what kind of protocol are you using?

I'm poor so i use Windscribe, they service was working week ago. Protocols - I've tried everything that is in Windscribe, so IKEv2, TCP, Stealth and WSTunnel



Here's link to they FAQ: https://windscribe.com/faq

theres your problem. use a paid VPN. free ones are insecure and are slow. I use vypr vpn. works great and has a option to turn off the NAT.

The biggest thing I guess is using a faster encryption type Like 160 bit openvpn. may work a little better or try a different server.

[Soosmokie]

also turn your firewall to manual and turn it off to verify it is a NAT issue.

[Johnny M]

They should allow VPN or even have a built in one. Because lots of people have menus and can see ur ip. So if u get them mad they can boot u. My friend does that and he even told me my ip. But he didn’t do nothing to me. Rockstar should so it though because it’s a big and annoying problem

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by Stefanshutup:

They should allow VPN or even have a built in one. Because lots of people have menus and can see ur ip. So if u get them mad they can boot u. My friend does that and he even told me my ip. But he didn’t do nothing to me. Rockstar should so it though because it’s a big and annoying problem

what exactly do you believe they can accomplish with some random persons ip?

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by -iD-:

Originally posted by Stefanshutup:

They should allow VPN or even have a built in one. Because lots of people have menus and can see ur ip. So if u get them mad they can boot u. My friend does that and he even told me my ip. But he didn’t do nothing to me. Rockstar should so it though because it’s a big and annoying problem

what exactly do you believe they can accomplish with some random persons ip?

He did say what they could do with it...
(So if u get them mad they can boot u.)

they can kick you from the lobby is what he is saying.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by Stefanshutup:

They should allow VPN or even have a built in one. Because lots of people have menus and can see ur ip. So if u get them mad they can boot u. My friend does that and he even told me my ip. But he didn’t do nothing to me. Rockstar should so it though because it’s a big and annoying problem

You do know that Wireshark is free software, right?

I can run it and capture all the packets of all traffic on my PC's NIC, including every mesh network client that connects to me. It's like public information when you're playing a P2P/mesh network game.

VPN is against the ToS because you're obfuscating your location. R* wants to know where you are to verify and enforce regional pricing.

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Originally posted by Stefanshutup:

They should allow VPN or even have a built in one. Because lots of people have menus and can see ur ip. So if u get them mad they can boot u. My friend does that and he even told me my ip. But he didn’t do nothing to me. Rockstar should so it though because it’s a big and annoying problem

You do know that Wireshark is free software, right?

I can run it and capture all the packets of all traffic on my PC's NIC, including every mesh network client that connects to me. It's like public information when you're playing a P2P/mesh network game.

VPN is against the ToS because you're obfuscating your location. R* wants to know where you are to verify and enforce regional pricing.

just because your using a VPN does not mean your obscuring location. and a VPN alone is not grounds alone to be banned on steam.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by Soosmokie:

Originally posted by Ancient:

You do know that Wireshark is free software, right?

I can run it and capture all the packets of all traffic on my PC's NIC, including every mesh network client that connects to me. It's like public information when you're playing a P2P/mesh network game.

VPN is against the ToS because you're obfuscating your location. R* wants to know where you are to verify and enforce regional pricing.

just because your using a VPN does not mean your obscuring location. and a VPN alone is not grounds alone to be banned on steam.

No, but when you use it to buy outside your region, it is. They'll take your whole library away over it.

Same with R*. They want to know if you're trying to play a cheap Russian-localized copy of the game from the US/EU/UK/AUS and using a VPN would protect you from exposing your true location, that's one part of why VPNs are against the ToS and have been proven in some cases to be bannable.

R* is also in a tenuous position because the game is outright banned for sale due to content or regulated because of the gambling aspect in many countries, that's their second liability, and it's R* who are expected to enforce those bans and they can't do that if people are just VPN'ing in and connecting from a different country to get around it. That's why they just ban all discovered VPN users without a second thought.

They're either a) protecting profits or b) they have no choice because they'd be violating international law to allow people to play the game from inside banned countries. How can they enforce either if they allow VPNs?

[muckymucks]

I play all online games with ExpressVPN. I've played CSGO, DBD, GTA Online. My VPN location is in the country I'm really in, though. I've never had a problem.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by muckymucks:

I play all online games with ExpressVPN. I've played CSGO, DBD, GTA Online. My VPN location is in the country I'm really in, though. I've never had a problem.

Honestly, that's the smart way to use a VPN. Just use an endpoint in your own locale so simple methods of capture don't reveal your IP and you benefit from the encryption tunnel in cases of usernames or passwords being sent as plain text.

Using one to play GTAV from China, where it's been banned for 3+ years, or to get cheaper prices on games from Steam by obfuscating your native country, is not.