Lobby Crashes

[ploeppsel605]

For the last few weeks we had this problem when we wanted to start a round. The Host creates a lobby and puts it on private. We do not play ranked, we only play skirmish against the AI ( 3 or 4 people against the AI on shifting difficulties and AI's) After the lobby is created it's instantly set back to public again. We usually set it back to private and the other players join. The moment the host adds an Ai everyones game crashes except for the host (not a simple lobby crash a complete game crash). The hosts game and lobby still work fine. Switching the host doesn't change that no matter who hosts the game everyone elses game crashes the moment we add an AI. The AI type doesn't matter and none off us has any mods installed.
We all play on PC and have different specifications and the game works fine when playing solo against the AI for all off us.
Adding the AI first doesn't help either because than the game crashes on entering the lobby.
If we keep the lobby on public it seems to be random if these crashes happen or not so it can be a workaround but it's not consistent. The game still crashes for everyone except the host probably half the time before the match even starts. When we get the match to start we have no problems however.

[GreenLama!]

Same Problem here, do you found a Solution yet ?

[ploeppsel605]

Originally posted by GreenLama!:

Same Problem here, do you found a Solution yet ?

no sry :(

[GreenLama!]

Originally posted by ploeppsel605:

Originally posted by GreenLama!:

Same Problem here, do you found a Solution yet ?

no sry :(

Sad but thank you :)

[Christheco]

Hello, we were unable to reproduce the issue, could you please provide us with a video showing the issue? If the game crashes then we would need a minidump file.
Minidumps can be found in “C:\Users\USER\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\logs” will have date-time format, something like “AoE2DESteam-51577-2021.10.07-10.11.24.mdmp”, it should be at end of the folder.
You can use this website: https://gofile.io
Could you please attach this file here?
Thanks a lot for your help.

[GreenLama!]

Originally posted by Christheco:

Hello, we were unable to reproduce the issue, could you please provide us with a video showing the issue? If the game crashes then we would need a minidump file.
Minidumps can be found in “C:\Users\USER\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\logs” will have date-time format, something like “AoE2DESteam-51577-2021.10.07-10.11.24.mdmp”, it should be at end of the folder.
You can use this website: https://gofile.io
Could you please attach this file here?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Hello,

apparently there is a couple people on Reddit that have the exact same Issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/1267ljc/cant_multiplayer_against_ai/

also put in the wanted dmp : https://gofile.io/d/3C1ElB

[Bluesheepz]

Originally posted by Christheco:

Hello, we were unable to reproduce the issue, could you please provide us with a video showing the issue? If the game crashes then we would need a minidump file.
Minidumps can be found in “C:\Users\USER\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\logs” will have date-time format, something like “AoE2DESteam-51577-2021.10.07-10.11.24.mdmp”, it should be at end of the folder.
You can use this website: https://gofile.io
Could you please attach this file here?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Hello, thank you very much for looking into this! I recorded a video showing the other end of GreenLama!'s session. You can't really see much as the game crashes the instant an AI is added to the lobby. When joining a lobby that already has an AI in it, the game crashes upon connecting to the lobby:
https://youtu.be/g361O2KfcMc

Minidump file:
https://gofile.io/d/EvzYR6

Can't really find a lot of other posts regarding the same issue, but one thing posts seem to have in common is that the lobby type always defaults back to 'Public' even when setting it to 'Private' intially, if that's of any help.

[Christheco]

Hey everyone, thanks a lot for this report!
We are now tracking the issue.
Hope youll have a nice day.

[Ptsd_Boi]

Status? It’s still happening months later

[Pvt. Parts[NL]]

I'm also having this issue. Nothing in particular seems to fix it. I tried restarting the game, restarting Steam but usually when the host creates a new "fresh" lobby, then it seems to work more often than not.

I had the MS Store version initially and never had the problem there. It started when I bought it on Steam. It doesn't matter if I join through Steam Chat (invited by friend) or when reacting to a pending invite, in-game. This does not seem to make a difference. I would like to know when a fix is found, just to inform my friends about this issue :)

Thanks in advance!

[RJ Payne]

Hi, exact same issue here. I've just purchased it to play it with friends and we're encountering the same error. I can see that the issue has been active since March. Any intention to fix this? thank you.

[MrPesun]

This issue is still active Jan 2024. unfortunate that it makes the game unplayable with friends.

[chairman_wao]

Bump

[Musicased]

Set lobby to public with password. Private lobbies are broken right now. Let me know if this helps.

[Maselia]

Originally posted by Christheco:

Hey everyone, thanks a lot for this report!
We are now tracking the issue.
Hope youll have a nice day.

EMERGENCY EMERGENCY THE ISSUE IS BACK !!! FIX !!!