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Spouse and I play on the same wifi; why do I keep getting random disconnects and they don't?

littlechaos70
littlechaos70 Member Posts: 5
edited May 2024 in Ask the Community

For the record, neither of us have ever intentionally disconnected from a match.

I play on PC through Steam, and the other person plays on Xbox. They've only been disconnected maybe 3-4 times, whereas it has happened to me over 10 times (and has only been picking up recently in the past few days), and I've only been playing for about 3 weeks. I know there are other posts documenting similar issues, however is there a reason for this happening more on the PC?

Even when we are in a party together, when a disconnect starts to happen, mine usually disconnects first, and then the other person's does about 15 seconds later. However, most of the time in situations where we are in a party together the other person doesn't get disconnected at all. It's incredibly random and I'm usually just running or working on a gen when the disconnect happens.

We have 300 Mbps internet through Spectrum, I'll provide PC specs if needed.

Some steps I have taken to try to improve the situation:

-Verifying game files through Steam to make sure nothing was corrupted.

-Changed anti-lag settings in my AMD Radeon Adrenalin console, including settings that favor performance.

-Making sure my firewall wasn't blocking the game.

-Using LagoFast to change the server/nodes ( I did this because I was trying to look up solutions, and saw suggestions for this program or a vpn). This did cause me to finish about 2 matches without any issues before crashing the game with a fatal win64 shipping error. When trying to relaunch the game and turning off LagoFast, I was met with a 30005 error from EAC. Restarting the PC fixed this issue as it wouldn't let me delete the EAC sys file.

I tried to play a regular match without using LagoFast, and still had a random disconnect about mid-way through the match.

These disconnects are happening almost every other match if not every match for me.

Are there any ways to work-around this? I don't want my account to get banned from these constant disconnects that I have no control over.

Is this something I need to try to contact my ISP over?

Answers

  • Mooks
    Mooks Member Posts: 15,082

    maybe there are some interferences that are influencing the connection of the ox with the WiFi more than the XBox.

    Can you try playing with an Ethernet connection - that should be way more stable

  • littlechaos70
    littlechaos70 Member Posts: 5

    Unfortunately a direct connection with an Ethernet cable isn't ideal at the moment.

    So, my spouse was able to play several rounds on their PC account (same PC) with no disconnects. I have not been able to get through a single match without DCing (I'm noticing this happens whenever I am unhooking someone, or right after I am unhooked, if that matters) and this is happening within the first few minutes of any round I'm playing. Currently I am waiting out a 6 hour matchmaking ban, and I'm not sure if it's even worth getting back on at this point.

  • littlechaos70
    littlechaos70 Member Posts: 5

    Update: Spouse found a promising fix that doesn't seem to have been suggested in the community yet, my issues have been resolved since trying it, please refer to this link if interested and I believe it will help others: https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1d8qsoo/potential_longterm_fix_for_constant_unintentional/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button