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[Weaselball]

So just today I've recently begun having a strange disconnect error. I'll launch a game, get in, start to play, then get a server error: disconnected. A quick alt-tab showed I lost exactly two packets pinging both my router and google (obviously, as I lost the packets to the router).

"Weird," I thought to myself. But didn't think anything more of it. A strange packet loss fluke, nothing more. So I re-enter my credentials and click the "rejoin" button. Game starts to connect, I hear the familiar sounds of my pilot loading into my mech, then again Server Error: disconnected.

Alt-tab back out, sure enough two packets dropped. No other packets dropped between these two instances. But hell, could just be a super-rare coincidence, right? So I give it a moment, a brief pause, then re-log back in. Click rejoin. Rinse, repeat. The second I start to load in I get dropped with a pair of packets lost.

So I start to think its an issue on my router/network. I close MWO and keep my pings running constant while I start to browse, watch cat videos and porn and whatever else the internet is for. All the while no packets dropped. So now I'm really perplexed.

I relaunch MWO (patcher and all). Log back in. Join a new match (my old one had ended). Cool, this one lets me log in, I start up, fight, etc. Things seem to be going good. At about the 10 minute mark in match-time remaining (so 5~ min into the game?) I get the server error: disconnected AGAIN... only this time something is weird. There was a player in the match who was very vocal with the in-game VOIP, and I was still able to hear him talking EVEN when I was staring at the login screen.

Now at this point I'm not even, or technically shouldn't be, connected or at least logged into the MWO server. I haven't even begun to type in my password, but I can sure as hell hear this guy still rambling on, calling out targets, etc. I manage to successfully rejoin and finish the match out, but once it was over I tabbed out to check my pings, and there it was again... two dropped packets right around the time where I disconnected.

Anyways, just wanted to post here for the really strange disconnected from the game, but still able to hear VOIP issue. That threw me off.

[Weaselball]

Just happened again. VOIP working outside of the match itself.

For testing purposes I will be disabling VOIP in game for the next few matches until I get a disconnect. If I get no disconnects after a few dozen games I will turn VOIP back on.

[Weaselball]

Ok I believe I found the issue: Just prior to this morning's games I enabled NVIDIA ShadowPlay to record both in-game sounds and microphone. Turning that off has restored all previous stability (with VOIP turned on in MWO).

Spoke too soon. Still doing this. I have shadow play off entirely. Frustrating.

Edited by Weaselball, 28 March 2015 - 09:42 AM.

[Weaselball]

Yup still happening. Only in MWO.

[Alakan]

I just had a similar weird issue as well. My game is crashing whenever I join a match. And Even though the ENTIRE PC seems to have crashed I still heard someone speak on VOIP. My monitor is showing no signal at this point.

Edited by Alakan, 28 March 2015 - 03:31 PM.

[Alakan]

I thought I fixed the problem with a video driver rollback. But I just got the same crash again. No signal to monitor. No responsiveness in keyboard or mouse, cannot return to desktop. But I can hear VOIP still.

[Alakan]

Well, I've figured out what was wrong on my end. One of my GPUs is dead.

[Weaselball]

Sorry to hear that. On my end it looks to be some random packet loss... though I swear I've played before with packet loss and was never disconnected after only one (or two) dropped packets out of 500.