Testing Multiplayer in 2.5
JuliusBorisov
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Attention everyone testing BG:EE!
The beta does not include SoD. So please, if you have SoD, uninstall it and run only BG:EE (with the blue interface) in order to test BG:EE.
Attention everyone testing BG:EE!
The beta does not include SoD. So please, if you have SoD, uninstall it and run only BG:EE (with the blue interface) in order to test BG:EE.
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At least, the previous issue is solved.
Just curious if there is something I might be missing or not.
BTW, it looks like I've found the reason of my crashing (Cloud Saves enabled on Steam -> crash; disabled -> no crash) - https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/34098
1. Have you both added the beta exe to any firewalls you have
2. If you each start a Command Prompt (Win/R -> CMD), then type IPCONFIG and press Enter do you get lines for IPv4 and IPv6 shown, or just one of the two.
@JuliusBorisov Sounds good, I guess with the call to "test the heck out of it, including with mods" I just assumed all was ready to go with mods too. Will take another stab at it this evening.
@Gate70 Yeah my ISP gives me an IPv6 address, IPCONFIG shows both, but I am still able to acquire my (non-local) IPv4 just fine and we were attempting to use that for direct connection of our game last night as well. He only has IPv4 and hails from another country than I do. We'll double check the beta exes are added to both our firewalls, pretty sure they were. He received a prompt with it when he launched his game for the first time (the beta) but I did not since mine are on steam and the firewall seemed to pick up on the fact that they were the same exe as I usually used (same directory). Still, it's worth double checking, so thanks for the insight.
@Gate70 Still not sure if the IPv6 vs IPv4 thing is an issue, since it never was a problem in the past. However, Firewalls are allowing the beta exes through just fine.
At this point, I am completely oblivious as to what could be the problem here, especially since there was no problem before the betas.
Wouldn't make sense but--do the betas have different ports needing to be forwarded? Grasping at straws, I know...
Edit: Well, we tried it again randomly and it worked--randomly. One thing I will note is when we originally tried this, the check box for Local Network Game when creating a game for me wasn't working (it was just a slightly yellow box), but now that I ran it this second time, it showed up just fine. Same version of the game. Very weird.
Edit #2: And now it randomly isn't working again, he just keeps getting "Waiting for information from server" now like before. Very inconsistent and very difficult to comprehend.
Edit #3: Some more notes with this, we tried both using the beamdog client (me not using Steam), we tried Baldur's Gate beta (no mods) as well as Siege of Dragonspear (no mods, no beta), as well as Icewind Dale beta (no mods), and Icewind Dale beta (with mods) and even Icewind Dale (no beta, no mods). We tired direct connections as well as connecting through the Beamdog lobby, and everything was very inconsistent. We had exactly one successful connection of Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition (beta, with mods) through the lobby where we were able to load our characters in just fine and start the game. One portrait wasn't working, so we saved the game, fixed the portrait issue, loaded the game--and suddenly, no more connecting was achieved. We also had exactly one successful direct connection of Icewind Dale (no beta, no mods) that worked only once and every other attempt through direct connection/lobby failed. I really don't know what could be the culprit at this point, but it is very disappointing dumping hours of diagnosis into this without able to even test one thing yet...
Could you do the below please next time you experience this issue.
- Close your games once you have reproduced the issue.
- Open your documents/Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition (or whichever game)
- Find your jingle.log files
- Create a report on Redmine, attaching log files for both host and client
It is possible, but probably not a good idea, to disable IPv6 on your network adaptor but that may cause you other issues. Again, probably not a good idea but it should be possible to make IPv4 the preferred protocol, e.g. towards the end of this article https://theitbros.com/ping-returns-ipv6-address-ping-ipv4Sadly, I'm not too keen on messing with my IPv6 settings when it is only these games causing me trouble, but I appreciate the suggestion
Thanks for the report, will try and have a look tomorrow.
& strange that you have connected in the past with no issue but using the non-beta version now does not seem to work very often. That sounds as though something has changed that you are unaware of.
The next steps I would try are
Have you tried your friend being the host, and you connecting to them
Both try connecting to another game, e.g. if Julius has a game open
Have someone else connect to each of you
I'd be happy to help with the last step or two, but might be challenging to get a suitable time
I'll try to keep my eyes peeled for Julius' game at some point and try to connect to it, but I also could simply message you too and see if you have some time available
Let me rig up my Icewind Dale to no longer be modded and I'll see if I can message you to try this out.
Over the weekend, I've spend some time trying out MP in 2.5.10 (BG:EE).
My overall evaluation of MP in 2.5.10 is that it really has become much more stable now, - saving is now quick, just as if I play in SIngleplayer, the game doesn't lag while in inventory and switching items. During 4 hours of MP, I had only 1 occational crash (random), which is certainly much better than what it was before.
Sometimes during battles characters still teleport (both for the client and for the host) - sometimes you see an enemy at one place and the other second it's already next to your character, but I think it happens now rarer.
When party characters die the game doesn't seem to lag now, which was very bad before.
When both the host and the client use the Quick Loot, the game doesn't lag anymore.
There're certain bugs still in (which I will continue to report), but the overall feeling of playing MP in BG now is much more player-friendly. I'd compare it with playing IWD:EE (1.4) in Multiplayer (which before I considered the best MP experience in IE games).
I still haven't tried containers and thus cannot comment about duplication/lag issues which were present in 2.3.
Oh, and by the way, SCS v.30 works absolutely fine with 2.5.10, including Multiplayer.
1) something mod-related (to check, you have to cut the contents of the override folder and download the fresh beta, - afterwards you'll have to paste the contents of the override folder back)
2) Steam Cloud Saves (but there's currently no option for it in IWD:EE - still worth to check the baldur.lua file and set it to 0)
3) Antivirus. This is something that has started to happen recently (about several months ago, - programs like BitDefender prevent changes in Documents, and thus lead to crashing). So please, disable your Antivirus, or find a way to add exceptions.
Also, to better understand the reason of your crash, run the program from cmd.exe - the log there will show what is happening just before the crash, and you can screenshot.