Direct Connection disabling itself

[BucketSeal]

Hey! I'm trying to play with some friends in Story mode on a unmodded save, Everything was fine when we started last week, but we can't play together anymore, one of them got the game on GOG and we need to use the direct connect option to play together.
And that's where the problem is : The direct connect option keep disabling itself every 10-30 seconds, making it impossible for my friend to join me, i tried multiple things, creating new profiles, deleting all of my saves, reinstalling the game. It just doesn't want to work :/

Anyone got something like that before?

[Raze_Larian]

Are you enabling Direct Connection in the main menu options?

If you open the Connectivity Menu in-game and enable Direct Connection there, does it disable itself if you leave that window open waiting for your friend to join?

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before starting the game? Could there have been any firewall updates or rule changes since last week?

Try exiting out of the Steam client, and starting the game directly from the '..\SteamApps\common\Divinity Original Sin 2\DefEd\bin\EoCApp.exe' program file, by right clicking and running as administrator, to see if that makes a difference.

Try doing a clean boot and then test the game. Click Start, or hit WinKey-R, type in msconfig and hit enter; in the General tab, click Selective Startup, uncheck Load startup items (if required) and leave Load system services and Use original boot configuration options checked. Next, click on the Services tab, check the box to Hide all Microsoft services, then click the Disable All button (maybe make a note of which are currently enabled/disabled), then click OK and reboot the computer.
Run msconfig again to switch back to the normal boot configuration.

Have you tried joining a game your friend hosts?

Have you tried hosting/joining an Arena match?

If you use Discord, inviting that way may also be an option.

Try resetting your network adapters:
- click Start (or Search in Win 10), type cmd into the search box, right click Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
- type the following command and hit Enter
netsh winsock reset
- when that is done, there should be a message 'Winsock reset completed successfully'
- type exit and hit Enter, then reboot your computer.
For more details, see:
https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Resetting_Network_Adapter_(Winsock_Reset)

[BucketSeal]

Resetting my network adapters was apparently the solution! Everything seems to be working fine now!
Thank you for the help!

[Camarada Flakes]

To this day they have not solved this, happening to me playing with people from Gog, complicated

[-MaVerick-]

Originally posted by Camarada Flakes:

To this day they have not solved this, happening to me playing with people from Gog, complicated

If you wasn't able to solve your problem with the troubleshoot steps from 2019, why not try a different approach?
Apparently you got the game on Steam, so you have the option for "Remote Play Together", all that your friend(s) need is a Steam account and you can just invite them to your game. They don't even need a copy of the game on Steam. You do need a good internet connection for that though, as you are streaming the game to your buddy via Steam. That's how my partner and I did a COOP playthrough.

You can even go a step further with that. If you own the game, but your PC isn't quite up to the task of playing and streaming at the same time, but your buddies PC is, you can share the game via Steam Family, then let your buddy invite you to the game. Theres a lot of trust involved with this solution, but it works. We went this way with DOS1 & BG3