Cant connect to chat or see custom games list [SOLVED]

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Cant connect to chat or see custom games list

Postby Scales » 28 Apr 2015, 21:52

I started playing FAF fairly recently and there has been an very annoying bug quite often where when I open the lobby, I end up not connecting to chat and the custom games list is missing as well as "most" of the games. The weird part is sometimes the lobby loads fine and I can play like normal. It's pretty random as to when it decides to work or not.

I have tried changing ports, changing compatibility (I'm on windows 7) to vista, reinstalling faf, reinstalling the game. Nothing seems to totally fix the problem, it just sometimes wont work.

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Here are the logs, maybe someone can figure it out, btw this is using the steam version.
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uid.log
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game.log
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forever.log
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Re: Cant connect to chat or see custom games list  [SOLVED]

Postby Scales » 29 Apr 2015, 00:06

I think I have managed to resolve the problem for now, I switch to a wired connection (I had to rearrange my living room to get my computer close to my router :) ), It looks like everything seems to be functioning normal for now, is there a chance of some packet losses with wi-fi when logging in and screwing everything up?
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Re: Cant connect to chat or see custom games list

Postby Sheeo » 29 Apr 2015, 19:22

You're having the same issue as a few other reports with the messages received becoming garbage. It's still unclear what causes this, but thanks for the report.
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Re: Cant connect to chat or see custom games list

Postby Scales » 30 Apr 2015, 21:32

I played again last night with no issues, logged in fine, connected to chat, no disconnects for like the 3 hours I played. My computer is super old (like 7-8 years) with a PCI-Express Wi-Fi module (it might be a D-link model but I'm not too sure.) I used the drivers that windows installed for me so it may be a driver issue as well. Anyways I'm going to mark it solved unless it acts up again. One thing I forgot to mention is, I have FAF installed on my laptop as well and when I connect through Wi-Fi it works fine, so that leads me to think that it's not really a network issue, probably a client side one.
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