Multiplayer on Windows 11? [SOLVED]

[Kuro]

I was wondering if anyone has managed to get multiplayer functional on the Windows 11 beta for NMS?

[Geldric™]

I’ve done several weekend missions & played with my grandson (creative but still mp) & haven’t seen anything that would lead me to believe there is any difference between Win10 & Winn11

[SmooK]

I am getting stuck on "Download Data..." when trying to select Expeditions as new file. I am on Win11.

I am also on experimental build of the game so I will try switching to the stable version and see if it works

[SmooK]

I tried with non-experimental and experimental - both cases fail.

What I have also noticed: sometimes I get "Attempting to connect", then if I proceed in one of my old game slots and try accessing discovery services, those connect but then lose connection. Then if I go back to the game mode select on new game, Expeditions tile is again on "Downloading Data".

My guess, for some reason we are seeing either frequent connects/disconnects or just mostly disconnects with some small connects. Within this time you are unable to create a new game mode Expeditions or if you have one, likely finish a mission.

I doubt I'll find solution but I'll try some other ideas.

[Geldric™]

There are NO new Expeditions, you must make a new Normal, Survival or Perma Death save.

PS Both the Exp build and normal build are the same. See -> https://steamdb.info/app/275850/depots/

[SmooK]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Traveller Geldric:

There are NO new Expeditions, you must make a new Normal, Survival or Perma Death save.

PS Both the Exp build and normal build are the same. See -> https://steamdb.info/app/275850/depots/

I think you are missing the point that focus in this thread are network issues on Win11.

Anyhow I think I found the solution (at least so it appears):

1.) Go into one of your saves,
2.) Go into Settings --> Network,
3.) Set Multiplayer to Disabled,
4.) Exit the game,
5.) Start the game - you should see now that discovery catalog service now is Online and doesn't go offline,
6.) Go back in setting and reenable Multiplayer.
7.) You should now be able to have multiplayer sessions. (no idea how stable the fix is).

Alternatively, you can also try changing this and cross-platform setting to false in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS\GCUSERSETTINGSDATA.MXML"

Then starting the game, going in game, exiting to desktop, setting the values back to True and go into the game once more.

Edit: and Expeditions now are showing me "Expedition is Complete" (or something along those lines)

[Kuro]

I probably should have been more specific. When choosing a game mode, and I select multiplayer, no one is in the anomaly, and people cannot join on my game in the menu and I cannot join on them. I did not have this problem in windows 10. Multiplayer is enabled. I also tried what you were saying, just in case. No such luck.

[Musashi]

Maybe your PC-Clock needs to be synchronized :
Follow the 3 Steps :
http://prntscr.com/w6gmv8

[Kuro]

I read that as a "potential" solution for PS4 on another site, and dismissed it because it sounded ridiculous. Low and behold, I had to update the time. For some reason Windows 11 locks you out of updating the time properly, so I had to go into the bios and do some gpedit trash. Regardless, strangely, that is the solution. Thanks @musashi

[Musashi]

That is why I wait until 2025 with the installation of WIN 11 :)