I am experiencing really odd disconnects, and have been for the past year or so.
I connect and everything is fine for about 10 seconds, then I get the red lag indicator and get kicked.
This happens almost every time I use Freelancer Account Manager to change accounts, and usually I can get in game after 5-10 disconnects and everything is fine with no lag or disconnects. Could it have to do with the account ID sent to the server?
I get kicked like this even if I haven't selected a character but just idle at the "select character" screen, it happens if I stay docked too. Sometimes I restart my PC and my router, and sometimes I can login afterwards - sometimes I can't.
Since yesterday I have not been able to log in at all without getting disconnected; no matter how many times I try and no matter what account I switch to.
My internet is super slow, but I live close to the server and usually have 0 lag/loss/fluct and about 50 ms ping. I am a network noob, but I did add an exception for the Disco application (didn't mess around with ports manually) in my firewall (Comodo). I use Freelancer.exe to start up the game, and I have the swag pack installed. There are no entries in DSAce when I get disconnected. I have also reinstalled many, many times.
Any clues to how I can fix this? At the moment I cannot login or play at all due to this.
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I have times where my ping just explodes to stupid levels, I get really high fluct and loss, and the game is virtually unplayable. Plus there's those nearly once-a-day server crashes when large fights occur.
Something's changed in the last week. I used to get ctd's fairly regularly upon logging in, but rarely disconnects.
Since sometimes in the last week, I've been having the same issue (though it's generally been taking around 3 tries to get in, not 5-10).
I am now having this problem also constantly, i've been trying to log on for an hour now... i log into character, and 10 seconds later i get lagged disconnect.
No, BF4 is the same. I'll queue up, finally get on a server, game loads and just when I am about to get in game, it disconnects with an error message. It takes a few attempts before it works as well.
I reset my router, and bang FL works again (until I switch account probably). But why?
Been having the same problem since last week or so.
First log in into the game is met with a disconnect after 15 seconds or so, and after reconnecting it goes well.
Happens again after I switch an account, or later on when restarting the computer session.