Games freezing randomly when playing over network

[900dogs]

Hi there,

I have a problem when using OPL (both 0.9 r590 and 0.8 final) to play games over the network. For the most part, games work, but they will randomly freeze during gameplay (either a freeze or it won't get back to the menu) - I'm not sure if this is a setting on my PC or my router. Maybe the connection is timing out because no new data is being loaded? (i.e during a match in Timesplitters, since it's all in RAM) I'm on Windows XP if it matters. Also, I have tried re-ripping games (checksums match redump) as well as trying different ethernet cables.

[binavik]

It shouldn't be completely random freezing. Windows XP and 2000 have an auto-disconnect feature thats is default for all their machines, it is sent to disconnect any network maps after a set amount of idle time, the default is 15 minutes. You can change the default time by opening a command prompt and typing net config server /autodisconnect:"auto disconnect time". Where it says "auto disconnect time", just remove the quotes and add a number from -1 to 65535, putting -1 would disable the auto-disconnect feature. An example would be net config server /autodisconnect:30 making the auto-disconnect time set to 30 minutes.

For more information on this check How Autodisconnect Works in Windows NT and Windows 2000. Hope this helps.

[900dogs]

Thank you so much! That solution works perfectly. It wasn't "random" freezing as much as freezing every 15 minutes or so (which explains it perfectly) - all of my games work now!

[RandQalan]

That was good info for people having that problem kods