Your connection to the server has been lost

[Lunatiqzx]

Hello,

So I am new to project reality and i just downloaded everything and installed everything today. Only to encounter one problem, when I log in everything is fine, but when i want to join a server it says "your connection to the server has been lost", then i try to connect a second time then it works only to find out i can only load the map and as soon as the loading is done i d/c and "Your connection to the sever has been lost". Now i logged on to BF2 vanilla and i do get the same error twice but then the second time i try it, it finally works and i play on the sever. I uninstalled my antivirus, disabled my firewall, reset my router, update PB manually, nothing seems to be working. Help?


Thanks

[Sgt. Mahi]

Have you bought the gane via steam? If so turn off steam overlay. I always get a "connection has been lost" the first time I try to join a server for some reason. But always works fine the second time.

[Lunatiqzx]

No its not steam version

[Lunatiqzx]

Can someone please help me? I've tried everything

[Vonzip]

Have the same problem

[Haarp]

dont know but i cant seem to figure it out... why one person can run pr but not me.. ive changed routers, modems ,wires, reinstalled 4 times, updated punk buster , ran as admin wtf.... guess ill have to wait on 1.0 version... maybe with that version these pr guys will get thier heads out of thier butts and get it right.... dont know though changing versions like you change socks....

[Vonzip]

maybe with that version these pr guys will get thier heads out of thier butts and get it right.... dont know though changing versions like you change socks....

It's not them since it happens to me on BF2v and Forgotten Hope servers.

[IINoddyII]

... maybe with that version these pr guys will get thier heads out of thier butts and get it right.... dont know though changing versions like you change socks....

Welcome to the forums - what a lovely introduction. Attitudes like that will surely make people go out of their way to help you (sarcasm intended :evil ....



So to the op and vonzip

Can you describe your system specs - including your internet connection. Can you confirm you're not trying to play via a wireless connection? It's also important to note your brand of router as there are known problems with certain brands..

Can you confirm that the error also happens on vBF2 or FH2?

(note having to click the join server twice is a common problem that I think everybody experiences - so let's concentrate on the losing connection problem.

[Haarp]

Look im sorry .... ive been playing this game sense it came out and its almost like a kid to me not being able to play with my friends online sucks...
so ive got a N600 Neatgear router
Pentium P6100 processer
on board graphics 512mg

[Vonzip]

My specs are:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @2.33ghz
2GB Ram
Geforce 9400

(I was able to play fine back in 0.96)

My router is: WRT54G2, connection is 10mbs down, 1 up.
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I get the same problem on BF2v and Forgotten Hope.
Get both the problems on a wireless and wired connection.
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Things ive done is:
Fresh re-install
Manually updated PB
Configured PnkBstrA and B to Restart on service
Lowered router MTU settings to 1300
And don't remember the rest.

Ive heard port fowarding can help solve, but I have no idea how and from what ive searched my router doesn't allow it?

Thanks.

[Many]

Same Error but if i try one more time to join it it works. It sucks because i play at CIA and is always full so i use auto-deploy and get the error so i have to do it one more time.

[Psyrus]

Same Error but if i try one more time to join it it works. It sucks because i play at CIA and is always full so i use auto-deploy and get the error so i have to do it one more time.

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... ction.html

[sprint113]

Psyrus;1870013']https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... ction.html

Want to chime in to say that I think I have the same issue, and changing to the older punkbuster file doesn't seem to fix the disconnect issue. I think it may be in conjunction with one of the pb service updates when that fix came out but haven't been able to figure out how to roll back the pb services files.

I'm wondering if there is a trend with which ISPs people have who suffer this issue, since a consensus would suggest ISP traffic shaping being the root cause. I use Comcast.

I don't think it's caused by pnkbstrb failing. During my testing, instead of setting it to restart on failure, I set it to open notepad or a command prompt on failure so i could catch whether the process failed and it doesn't seem to launch them. Also, there are no service failure events in the event log.

Finally, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the pb_sleep variable, since the pb documentation states the value is in ms, somewhat contradicting the belief that setting it to 500 will result in pb scanning your system only every 500 seconds. From my understanding, it has to do more with the processing chunk size and network traffic; higher values means increased chunk size but overall less network traffic due to less network overhead. One indirect quote of a pb service rep suggests that a lower pb_sleep value will result in smoother gameplay/fps, >56k internet connection and a modern CPU.