Joining game problem

[luizinhuu]

damn it, half of the times i load a map the following happens:
it loads it all, it loads the damn verifying client data and when it was supposed to pop up the Join Game button for me to join, it goes back to the servers list with a pop-up saying "Your connection to the server has been lost"

what is it? it happened all the times i tried to join Greasy Mullet, one time now on sunset city on a brazilian server which i ping perfectly and on Mao Valley, which is an old map, on an American server

i think it is not a map problem neither a server connection problem, really. this problem follows this pattern and it happens on servers i ping nice too!

[luizinhuu]

it happened several more times yesterday

[PipoDeluxe]

It works fine for me. But a friend of mine (Barendz here on the forum) has exactly the same problem. So at least you're not alone...

He figured the problem only occurs when there are more than about 10 players in a game. So when he tries to join a game where > 10 players are already playing, he gets disconnected when he presses "Join Game", just like you. But when he joins a game with < 10 players, everything works fine, even when 50 more people join the game after he joined. Once he's joined, he can play on full servers for hours without a problem.

edit: Check out this thread: http://realitymod.com/forum/t11143-p...t-servers.html

[luizinhuu]

my problem is different, the JOIN GAME button doesnt pop up, i dont even have the chance to click on it, it disconnects on the very moment the JOIN GAME button was supposed to show up!

[Barendz]

is it on the same servers every time or does it, like Pipo described, occure on servers that are filled? I dont know if I get disconnected if I dont press join game, Ill test it this evening

[luizinhuu]

from 6 times i tried to join GH West yesterday, 4 times this problem occured. i was able to play on the other 2 times though, but it is a bitch to load all the map and get "Your connection blablaba"

[[R-CON]Hfett]

Yeah i saw that happen a lot of times withu luizinhuu

[Darth.Skyline]

Yeah happened to me 3-4 times yesteray (was trying to join Thors but they crashed ?)

[luizinhuu]

tell me Darth, it disconnects on the very moment the JOIN GAME was supposed to show up?
it follows this pattern here

[[R-CON]MrD]

is there a sticky on this problem yet including basic methods to reduce the problem?

I have found that if it occurs to me, if I drop to desktop and open task manager and start killing all pre-loaded software and ensure no audio/video programs are running in the background that i can then connect to games.