Latest Experimental A20 Multiplayer Issue

[kwike90]

So a group of my friends and I started playing the latest and greatest of 7DTD, 2 of us have no issues playing or creating our own world. However one of our friends can create a world, and as soon as we join him the game crashes, of if we create a game, it crashes when he joins us. He has reinstalled the game, he has verified everything through Steam but cannot play together. We were able to find a public server and he was able to join it for the last couple of days, with little issues (had to restart program, had to close different programs, kinda stuff) Now this morning, he cant even join the public game he was on for the past couple days. We tried making a dedicated server and still no luck. If anyone has any ideas, please help. I don't want to have to wait for the stable version when everyone else is able to play with their freinds. Thanks!!

[BFT2020]

Sounds like an issue with your friend's setup, but we don't have much to go on to be able to assist

 

 

Someone might be able to make a stab in the dark about helping your friend, but your odds of assistance increases the more information we have

[kalasklister1337]

Having similar issues trying to play with a friend who i've played with since more than 5 years ago. I know for sure that my PC specs have worked well in MP before but my friend got a new monster computer with 32GB ram, latest AMD CPU and NVIDIA RTX 3090 with windows that might be causing issues. My system is Ryzen 5 3600 and GTX1660 with 16GB ram.

 

We did some pretty extensive testing having used the "remove all game data" from the launcher and with a fresh install of A20 experimental. Also made sure to have textures set to HALF on both systems to be sure. No matter what we try with EAC disabled and with the game as vanilla fresh as possible using vanilla profiles, the server side either:

1. Crashes as soon as the other player connects (Windows)

2. Has connection time out for the one connecting and then kicks the player (Arch Linux Steam with latest proton-ge-custom-bin, same Ryzen 5 3600 system (i dual boot))

 

Reading the logs from each connection attempt, there are no errors registered in conjunction with the connection. On my windows install the server immediately self-destructs after it says my friend successfully joined the server. Literally the last log line in the file, then dead

Log sample from this case: https://justpaste.it/3ml26

 

Game also crashes in the same manner if my friend tries to host.

 

The crashing behavior is not 100% consistent. Most of the time the game crashes straight to the desktop, but i once got something that i think was the UnityCrashHandler showing for a while after the crash but not totally sure.

 

In single player everything works flawlessly for both of us.

Hope this helps.

Anything else we can try? In the past we have always been able to play after making sure EAC is off and using a public server with a password instead of creating a server which is only visible to friends on steam.

[kalasklister1337]

Additional info: Tried also with another friend who has roughly the same specs as me and it worked right away when he hosted without having to configure anything. Seems like most likely cause for all the issues is the crazy new hardware on my other friends machine.