Multiplayer Desync

Anything that prevents you from playing the game properly. Do you have issues playing for the game, downloading it or successfully running it on your computer? Let us know here.
wilson113388
Manual Inserter
Manual Inserter
Posts: 2
Joined: Sat May 21, 2016 8:36 pm
Contact:

Multiplayer Desync

Post by wilson113388 »

Hello,

My wife and I have been playing factorio for some time now but after 1 play session (normally 2-4 hours) the next time we attempt to play we suffer from a constant DeSync loop. If I host (more powerful PC) she desync's 4 or 5 times then crashes, if she hosts my pc will continually re-connect until it eventually stabilizes (40 or so de-syncs) Yesterday we didn't De-sync once but today we cant play at all.


I have attached my latest desync report.
We both have the same mods
Diesel Generator 3.0
Landfil 2.1.7
Powered Entities 2.0
SolarMod 1.0.1
VanillaEx.8

Appreciate any incite you can give!

Thank you!

~Josh
Loewchen
Global Moderator
Global Moderator
Posts: 10258
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:53 pm
Contact:

Re: Multiplayer Desync

Post by Loewchen »

As the desyncs happen so often it is almost guaranteed that they are mod related, on the other hand it should be quite easy to find out which mod it is, remove them one after the other until they no longer occur. You can still load your save file after changing the mods, only mod related entities will be removed.
wilson113388
Manual Inserter
Manual Inserter
Posts: 2
Joined: Sat May 21, 2016 8:36 pm
Contact:

Re: Multiplayer Desync

Post by wilson113388 »

Loewchen wrote:As the desyncs happen so often it is almost guaranteed that they are mod related, on the other hand it should be quite easy to find out which mod it is, remove them one after the other until they no longer occur. You can still load your save file after changing the mods, only mod related entities will be removed.

Looks like you were right! VanillaEx no longer works. It's just so strange. We can play for 6 hours in s row but as soon as someone leaves and try's to reconnect or we come back another day I starts the desync. This is why I didn't think it was mod related.

Regardless thank you. It's very stabil now.
orzelek
Smart Inserter
Smart Inserter
Posts: 3928
Joined: Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:20 am
Contact:

Re: Multiplayer Desync

Post by orzelek »

wilson113388 wrote:
Loewchen wrote:As the desyncs happen so often it is almost guaranteed that they are mod related, on the other hand it should be quite easy to find out which mod it is, remove them one after the other until they no longer occur. You can still load your save file after changing the mods, only mod related entities will be removed.

Looks like you were right! VanillaEx no longer works. It's just so strange. We can play for 6 hours in s row but as soon as someone leaves and try's to reconnect or we come back another day I starts the desync. This is why I didn't think it was mod related.

Regardless thank you. It's very stabil now.
If you can start the game with the mod but can't rejoin it/load it later it would point to an issue in mods on_load handler.
Post Reply

Return to “Technical Help”