Multiplayer Issues

[SamBC]

This is a thread to post any issues you are having with MP. Not about missing features - you can start threads for those - but about features that are there not working properly, or having problems.

Please post as clear a description as possible, including any error messages.

We may close other threads on MP issues, or merge them here, at our discretion.

NOTE: Some MP launch crashes may have been fixed by the host deactivating the exoplanets DLC. Please try this, and let us know how you get on

ANOTHER NOTE: Editing of game files, any game files, may lead to significant MP problems. If there is any difference between game files on different players' machines, this may cause problems with MP stability and dramatically increase Out of Sync issues.

[Obvious]

Multiplayer is extremely unstable. Crashes are happening on loading from the lobby, sometimes people ungreen mid load, sometimes it just dumps out.

[Todd]

Myself and 3 Friends are trying to start a multiplayer game where we all are on the same team, and then we add AI teams. We've tried 4v2v2 and 4v1v1 so far about 5-6 times, and every time we ready check and the game starts to load, the host gets a Windows has Detected a Problem message and are forced to close the application.

[mowsie2k]

My friend gets a Windows has Detected a Problem error every time we try to play together. He has verified game cache multiple times.

[dunkelzahn]

Me and my friend get that problem like in civ5 where the game reloads every five-ten turns. It's happened a few times but there have been games where it hasnt happened.

[Huh?]

Originally posted by NoSkills:

Multiplayer crashed in 3 different ways over 20-25 tries:

- Load into game and see that I'm the only human player still in the game and that the people are replaced by bots.
- One time, I've completed turn 1 before the same message as above came up when I click the 'end turn' button.
- Game lets me decide where to place the capital, then it takes me back to the loading screen where it crashes.

Having the same exact issues. We would be able to complete a couple turns myself and 3 other people with 2 AI would go into a loading screen and everyone will disconnect from the game. We tried different people hosting and with different people but same results.

Single player works just fine, only problem I see is when your looking at a city or have another menu open in-game and a AI sends you a deal it comes up blank.

Hope these issues get fixed soon, I expected launch hiccups so I'm not pissed, do love the game overrall so far.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by tA.miss_mowsie! ♪ ♥:

My friend gets a Windows has Detected a Problem error every time we try to play together. He has verified game cache multiple times.

Can he play single player?

[PuerNoctis]

Tried with two friends (so three player in total). Didn't work well.

1) One player couldn't join the game after several tries, the other player could without problems.
2) Then another player hosted the session, everyone was able to join, but then upon loading screen the game crashed for one player every time we tried this setup.
3) Again, the third player hosted the game, everbody could join AND we all could start the game. After two turns, one player was kicked from the game due to a lost connection (he has a very stable and fast internet connection btw).
4) The other two continued playing, a few turns further and the first OoS-Reload happened. After that, an excavation site disappeared his explorer was working on. Seemed like the "disappearing Caravans or Prophet"-Bug from Civ 5.

Although I read in an interview with a developer at Firaxis that the netcode has been reworked and made more stable, I feared that this sounds too good to be true. Especially because it's obvious that BE uses the exact same engine as BNW did.

Please Firaxis, can't you priorize these networking issues? :(
You must certainly see that multiplayer is very high demand...

[Best of Bacon]

My friend and i had a problem where he would join the lobby and his name would not appear and when we started the game and landed everybody crashed. After a lot of frusteration and troubleshooting i remembered a fix for another game with a similar problem and it turns out we crashed because my friend had brackets and curly braces in his name(],[.{,}) when we removed them the game magically worked. Hope this helps somebody

[MarlonVisser]

Multiplayer crashed in 3 different ways over 20-25 tries:

- Load into game and see that I'm the only human player still in the game and that the people are replaced by bots.
- One time, I've completed turn 1 before the same message as above came up when I click the 'end turn' button.
- Game lets me decide where to place the capital, then it takes me back to the loading screen where it crashes.


Since today I haven't been able to play single player games. I did manage to play 3 games yesterday in single player without any troubles.
I'm looking into resolution/fps problems right now, but it's worth mentioning since I didnt have any problems yesterday.
In single player it all loads, till the screen suddenly moves a lot, then my monitor goes off, then back on and Civ is black screen with my cursor still showing.
Alt+tab to close and tried 3 more times without success

EDIT!!!!!

Now we at the point that my computer is crashing. The game crashed and it was like groups of pixels were misplaced. Windows gave me a bluescreen of death saying that it shut my computer down because of drivers failing.

Only way I can get it online is with safe modus, what the heck should i do.. Start with deleting Civilization?

[razorace]

My friend and i had a problem where he would join the lobby and his name would not appear and when we started the game and landed everybody crashed. After a lot of frusteration and troubleshooting i remembered a fix for another game with a similar problem and it turns out we crashed because my friend had brackets and curly braces in his name([,].{,}) when we removed them the game magically worked. Hope this helps somebody

Interesting! So if I understand the problem, a bad name causes the game to crash on launch?

[arcanum.zero]

This one's pretty minor compared to all the crash reports, but a friend and I played a 2v2 game to an allied victory last night and only he got achievements for the victory, He was the game host but I met the win condition and outscored him, so it's not really clear what's going on. I reloaded the last autosaves and played through solo, but still no achievements.

The game log always grants credit for the victory exclusively to the Pan-Asian player, whether that was my friend or the AI player. I was Slavic Federation and built the Mind Flower that won the Transcendence victory; he was playing Supremacy affinity and had a complete Emancipation Gate but only a few hundred strength of military units loaded up.

Great game otherwise. No stability problems at all, and only one other minor gameplay bug.

[Tristanius Spartanius]

- I crashed once on loading new mp game. I reconnected and wasn't allowed to choose a spot for my city. That meant the other player was 1 round ahead.

- I just played about 3-4 hours with 2 friends and every ~45 minutes the game was loading new.
Once I payed attention and saw that it skipped 1 round as my research was finished after loading though there were 2 rounds left and I didn't get any researchpoints from other sources.
When I played with only 1 friend we did not have this problem at all in our 7 hour gamesession.

[metanoiance]

- Frequent disconnects
- Long wait time in between turns

[SynicHEX]

Since i have the screen resolution issue and can only play in 1080p in windows mode multiplayer crashes in windowed mode on ym 144hz monitor.

[Chapi]

Every 50 or so turns it disconnects one of us from the game and we have to close civ beyond earth completetly and re open to re-join the open game it just says error loading game