LAN games not showing / game crashes

[Marcius]

Hi there!

I've been playing quite some Civilization V lately and have faced two problems, luckily I've also found a solution for both problems, so I thought I'd share it here and maybe it will be fixed in the near future.

Issue 1: LAN games not showing up
Solution: When you hear that LAN games are not showing, you obviously instantly think about a firewall (software or hardware), port forwarding or a router that's simply not passing the data. I found out that when a computer can't find a hosted local game (and you have a properly configured firewall and router) it's highly likely the case that your computer has multiple network adapters. In my case I had a LAN and WiFI adapter, when both adapters were on (WiFi not even connected) the computer was not able to find hosted local games. When I disabled all the networkadapters, except the active networkadapter, it instantly found the hosted local game.

In short; disable all but the active networkadapter

Issue 2: Game crashing randomly in Windows 8.1
Solution: While I was playing it happened quite randomly, but enough to get irritated, that the game client crashed. I found out that when I disabled GPU Texture Decode in the video settings, the crashing would not occur anymore.

In short: disable GPU Texture Decode

Hopefully this helps out some of you, who are having problems. And maybe 2K can get this finally fixed, atleast issue 1 has been live since 2010 (probably release) already.

Greets Marcius

[Eifersucht18]

Cheers, good to know. Thanks for sharing :)

[Gaveramon]

That did the trick for me! Thanks!!!

[Ne0]

Game also crashing in RHEL7, while playing.

[gluigip]

That finally fixed my LAN issue, thanks a lot.

[Tonyywilliam]

Great advice! Worked for me

[Frwere]

Thanks a lot! That finally fixed my longstanding problem in LAN games!