Disconnect on server load.

[Hardstyles]

My gf's computer persistently says "disconnected" when trying to load into our server. This issue has popped up over night. We were playing until around 10pm and now this morning she is unable to connect at all. It just pops up the main screen and says "disconnected" Any help??

We have
refreshed her wireless settings
Restarted steam
Restarted the PC
Verified file integrity
Disabled Windows Firewall
Disabled ipv6
Tried connecting via IP
Flushed DNS
Disabled QuickSelect
Ran as Administrator
Uninstalled/re-installed.

Any thoughts?

[katevargyasi]

Same here.
Last night we had the dissconnecting issue, started going over that list and something fixed it. Now, it is just "disconnected" every time whatever we try.

[GinsengSamurai]

This might be a Steam-specific issue. A few other players, some months ago had the same issue, but they were all able to connect suddenly, a couple of days later and didn't report an outage since.

However, it is strange. I wonder. If she becomes the host, can you connect to her game?

Alternatively, one of you (if you two don't live together) can create a dedicated server at home with an old PC (8GB RAM, 4 Core 2GHZ+ CPU). This might be a solution.

Another thing you could do is update your network card driver, and/or replace your router with a more modern one, and/or connect via 5ghz if using WIFI, or connect using a cable. Some players connected their power cable to their laptops and their disconnects stopped.

[Hardstyles]

When I hosted a server on her pc I was able to load in. (obviously not a fix) but it worked.
We then hard reset both pcs for a few minutes. (had already done multiple times before) And it worked.

I should add that her game (She was the one unable to connect)had a noticeable lag to it. The fire in the loading screen was very stuttery and her game ran like crap. After the 3d or 4th hard reset. Her game was running smooth and once it was smooth she could connect again.

All in all, no real fix was identified except time and a hard reset(though I do not know this mattered since we had done it multiple times).

So if you read this and notice the player unable to connect is getting frame drops at start. It's a tell that you have something going on.. Still no idea what it is though.