Waiting for information from server...

Cathius

I know this isn't a new one, but I'm really running low on ideas here.

My friend and I are playing BG2EE unmodded. He runs it through steam. I'm playing through the beamdog client.
We've been playing through all of BG1 and made it to BG2. We cleared Firkraag last week and now all of a sudden we can't connect to each other.

Nothing has changed. Same machines. Same setup. Same everything.

-We both checked our firewalls and made sure that the game and launchers had permissions.
-We tried without firewalls, disabling them completely in windows.
-We tried reinstalling and both running through steam.
-We tried reinstalling and both running through beamdog.
-Game versions are identical.

I would really prefer not going through solutions like hamachi or direct connections.

We can see games are running in the lobby with serveral players in there.
What are we doing wrong?

JuliusBorisov

That's a difficult one. I still haven't figured out why that happens sometimes. Did you try Direct IP? Usually, trying to connect later helps.

Also, check out these suggestions: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/1083334/#Comment_1083334

https://reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/fywy4d/hamachi_port_forwarding/

safa201

Cathius wrote: »

I know this isn't a new one, but I'm really running low on ideas here.

My friend and I are playing BG2EE unmodded. He runs it through steam. I'm playing through the beamdog client.
We've been playing through all of BG1 and made it to BG2. We cleared Firkraag last week and now all of a sudden we can't connect to each other.

Nothing has changed. Same machines. Same setup. Same everything.

-We both checked our firewalls and made sure that the game and launchers had permissions.
-We tried without firewalls, disabling them completely in windows.
-We tried reinstalling and both running through steam.
-We tried reinstalling and both running through beamdog.
-Game versions are identical.

I would really prefer not going through solutions like hamachi or direct connections.

We can see games are running in the lobby with serveral players in there.
What are we doing wrong?

Did you solve the problem? Same here, couldn't find it.

bscrow

I recently had same issue and couldn’t find any solutions online. The solution that worked for me was for the host to simply change the session name to something new.

Not sure why that worked for me or if it’ll work for anyone else. Best of luck to anyone that stumbles across this old post.

RobW

same problem here with bg1 (incl. SoD) (GOG). tried all the above and the first 2 steps mentioned here: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/1083334/#Comment_1083334

We will try again tomorrow.

JuliusBorisov

https://beamdog.atlassian.net/plugins/servlet/servicedesk/customer/confluence/shim/spaces/IES/pages/2168619010/Multiplayer+Issues