constant multiplayer disconnects

[CaptainCrush]

Either crashes or disconnects non stop, we've both gone ethernet and live super close

Seriously frustrating

[Zaflis]

We have same experience past 2 days. There are no issues on my side as hoster at the very least.

It could partly be because connections go through Steam? Is there a way to enforce direct IP connection between us? One time i lost connection to Steam friends and then he dropped because of that.

For today i have portforwarded 24642 UDP as in guide and i recall there being some "host local" button in the options.

Edit: I guess "Start local co-op" means splitscreen game, so that's not related to this issue...

[Xatlaz]

Have you found a solution? we're having the same problem

[CaptainCrush]

Originally posted by Dekardi:

quick question do you play with someone in your house / same ip? only time i have that issue is when i play with my brother, tryin to figure out if its ip / router related or not

Nope we live about 20 mins away from eachother, its very random

[Zaflis]

So last night we didn't use Steam as a middle-man to connect our game and we had 0 disconnections for several hours that we played!
Only other thing i also did from options was turn off the "pause game when window is inactive", but i don't think this was the issue. I just had my friend connect to my game only with IP address i gave in chat. If you don't know your IPv4 as hoster, this is one way to check:
https://www.whatismyip.com/
(And also portforwarded the router)
And he lives in different country than me, though not too far.

[Xatlaz]

I found this solution in a different post and definitely the problem is steam, maybe trying these settings would help:

Settings>Library then change "Display size for library interface elements" to "small."
Settings>Library enable "Low bandwidth mode" and "Low Performance Mode".
The third option we changed was Settings>Interface then turn off "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views."

I haven't proved that yet cause my friends connect until night but it is supose to work

[Dark Redslayer]

A surefire fix I found for me and my friend, we went from constant disconnects to none in over 10 hours of play (one session of 4 straight hours included)

Get everyone playing to download Hamachi, its free and you can make your own "network" which everyone connects to, then they connect to you using LAN and your IP.

To get the hosts IP, on the host PC type CMD in the windows search bar, open command prompt and type IPconfig, look for IPv4 Address under "Ethernet adapter Hamachi:" and that's the number connecting players will need.

Once everyone is connected that way, the disconnects should be gone unless someone is having internet problems.

[☠Marie☠]

This is happening to me and my sister as well. Hopefully they will do something to fix it so we don't have to struggle trying to find workarounds to this issue.

[gnom3gir111]

came into contact with this problem 7 months ago and despite trying every single recommendation we could find, my partner and i couldn't play together anymore after an update took place. i really hope they just address this issue bc so many people have it :(

[Stardustfire]

woudend call it constant, but after the last big patch it seems the game got a little more wonky in MP, before that my friend and i never got discons, but now we see 2-3 per RL day in a session.

[Dark Redslayer]

Originally posted by ☠MarieJane☠:

This is happening to me and my sister as well. Hopefully they will do something to fix it so we don't have to struggle trying to find workarounds to this issue.

Try the one I posted above before you give up completely. We're up to about 14 hours now with zero disconnects since doing that.

[Zaflis]

Originally posted by Dark Redslayer:

We're up to about 14 hours now with zero disconnects since doing that.

Yeah same here when connecting with IP (you can do that from Join menu, it's not otherworldly trick).

If you know how to portforward you can just join directly and get a faster connection than you will with Hamachi. It is a basic thing i learned to do for a dozen other games before this. For example Minecraft and Terraria MP requires port forward with dedicated server.

[Dark Redslayer]

Originally posted by Zaflis:

Originally posted by Dark Redslayer:

We're up to about 14 hours now with zero disconnects since doing that.

Yeah same here when connecting with IP (you can do that from Join menu, it's not otherworldly trick).

If you know how to portforward you can just join directly and get a faster connection than you will with Hamachi. It is a basic thing i learned to do for a dozen other games before this. For example Minecraft and Terraria MP requires port forward with dedicated server.

Hamachi just simplifies it. And Stardew doesn't need the quick server response that a FPS does, we've had no issues with lag or anything.

[Malakyte]

Originally posted by Zaflis:

So last night we didn't use Steam as a middle-man to connect our game and we had 0 disconnections for several hours that we played!
Only other thing i also did from options was turn off the "pause game when window is inactive", but i don't think this was the issue. I just had my friend connect to my game only with IP address i gave in chat. If you don't know your IPv4 as hoster, this is one way to check:
https://www.whatismyip.com/
(And also portforwarded the router)
And he lives in different country than me, though not too far.

How are you connecting via IP? I'm having disconnection issues with a friend and we can't find an option to connect with an IP address except for in LAN and this won't work since we aren't on the same network.

[Zaflis]

Originally posted by Malakyte:

How are you connecting via IP?

It is the LAN option i'm sure, it should work over the internet.

[Dark Redslayer]

Originally posted by Malakyte:

Originally posted by Zaflis:

So last night we didn't use Steam as a middle-man to connect our game and we had 0 disconnections for several hours that we played!
Only other thing i also did from options was turn off the "pause game when window is inactive", but i don't think this was the issue. I just had my friend connect to my game only with IP address i gave in chat. If you don't know your IPv4 as hoster, this is one way to check:
https://www.whatismyip.com/
(And also portforwarded the router)
And he lives in different country than me, though not too far.

How are you connecting via IP? I'm having disconnection issues with a friend and we can't find an option to connect with an IP address except for in LAN and this won't work since we aren't on the same network.

Go a couple posts up, I explain how to get the hosts IP, and try to connect through that in lan. if that doesn't work, then try my other suggestion included. My and my friend made it all the way through year 2 and spring 3 without a single disconnect since using that.