Your Connection To The Server Has Been Lost

[TOME Malambri]

None of the things posted work. Still get the good old connection lost whenever I am trying to lead a squad. Thanks to the admins for deleting my thread about it as well. PR!!!

[[T]Terranova7]

Originally Posted by kilroy0097

That Esc trick worked for me. Immediately when it says "Problem with your Connection" press the Esc key and go to the menu. Then come back out and suddenly it's all fixed. Rinse repeat. When you press Esc your PC sends a different kind of packet to the server or DICE Stats server. Until it sees that packet sometimes it forgets you are there for some reason. I have no idea why.

I can confirm that this technique works for me. I found it out on my own as I was sort of sick of the periodic disconnects I received (and still do) every 20 to 40 minutes. Usually just hitting the ESC key every 10 minutes or so does the trick as I've never actually tried doing this the moment the connection problem occurred. Although sometimes it's easy to forget the need to press the ESC key until it becomes too late.

Not sure what the issue is truly, I can stay online with just about any other game indefinitely with the exception of BF2. If you ask me it's just another reason why BF2 just flat out sucks (Thank god for PR right?)

[SnipingCoward]

switching off EAX in Audio settings did the trick for me

[pvt.nouri]

The problem for me is definitely VoiP. When i turn it off, it works. My problem is that when i join a pretty full game, after it loads, it disconnects. When i turned voip off it worked fine.

This is definitely a .7 issue too because this NEVER happened before and i've been playing PR since the beginning.

[fubar++]

No it's not directly 0.7 issue. When server gets more populated the VOIP traffic gets more delayed and thus recognized as DoS attack by some routers/firewalls. 0.7 can be more demanding for servers, but that's not the actual problem. It happens also in vBF2.

I switched off my router firewall and no "there is a problem with your connection" whatsoever since (after map loading but other connection problems are whole other issue).

[sniperNZSAS]

( edited, i didnt read all 5 pages lol can you delete these? )

[pvt.nouri]

Originally Posted by fubar++

No it's not directly 0.7 issue. When server gets more populated the VOIP traffic gets more delayed and thus recognized as DoS attack by some routers/firewalls. 0.7 can be more demanding for servers, but that's not the actual problem. It happens also in vBF2.

I switched off my router firewall and no "there is a problem with your connection" whatsoever since (after map loading but other connection problems are whole other issue).

What other firewalls are you using in place? Switching off a router firewall seems pretty serious IMO.

And for me, this never happened EVER before .7 and I've been playing bf2 (and pr) since the beginning. Just the facts in my case. Thanks though.

[pvt.nouri]

Any developments on this?

[[R-CON]Alex6714]

I know someone that has fixed their constant disconnects by completely reinstalling PR.

[fubar++]

Originally Posted by pvt.nouri

What other firewalls are you using in place? Switching off a router firewall seems pretty serious IMO.

I'm using Avast and Windows firewall and no problem with that. Reason for switching off whole firewall was that I'm using shared connection and the router isn't mine. Maybe there is a way to open some ports or some other configuration, it should depend on your router.

Originally Posted by pvt.nouri

And for me, this never happened EVER before .7 and I've been playing bf2 (and pr) since the beginning. Just the facts in my case. Thanks though.

Of course there can be other reasons for disconnection problems, but the problem described before is definitely caused by VoIP and firewall interaction. It doesn't occur on all game servers because some server configurations use separate VoIP server and therefore main server strain doesn't interfere VoIP traffic.