Constant freezing and disconnects in multiplayer zeroclient

[Sindorius]

Hey there,

I play this with 3-4 people and we will often get freezes for a few seconds or more that end up in a single player being disconnected due to timeout. It happens every 30 minutes or so usually and we're using zeroclient. The player who gets disconnected is random as we have all been disconnected this way. Anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?

[AJenbo]

Since there is no server it's more sensitive to network issues between any of the players. You can try TCP which avoids the extra network layer but requires the person that sets up the game to expose a port

[Sindorius]

Will try that out thanks!

[Sindorius]

It seeemed better but as the host I kept getting silent crash to desktops constantly while I was in town. I don't get any crashes when we're in ZeroClient though.

[tsunamistate]

@Sindorius Hellfire was converted to a mod, you can switch to Hellfire in "Settings - Mods"

[AJenbo]

Hellfire is in the process of being decoupled from the engine in 1.6 so doesn't fully work yet.

[Sindorius]

Gotcha that must be it then. On my 1.5.4 build I have bard/barbarian on and can't get them on with diablo.ini tweaks in 1.6 so maybe that's why my 1.5.4 character isn't showing up? Not even sure where characters are being saved.

[StephenCWills]

On Windows, characters are saved in %appdata%\diasurgical\devilution by default, in files that end with the .sv extension for Diablo and .hsv extension for Hellfire. For other platforms besides Windows, check this page for some other common default locations: https://github.com/diasurgical/DevilutionX/wiki/Config-File.

I believe 1.6.0 doesn't see your character because it is in a file with the .hsv extension, which is the extension for Hellfire characters. Like AJenbo said, Hellfire doesn't fully work yet in 1.6.0 so you should expect to see some problems if you switch to it. Currently, I would recommend creating a new character in Diablo if you intend to try things out using a test build.

Also, make sure you back up your existing character saves whenever you try out a test build.

[Sindorius]

Gotcha thanks Stephen. My friends and I have been having really rough disconnects, crashing, and freezing options playing together in ZeroClient or TCP with 1.5.4 so were hoping to try 1.6.0 to see if it fixed any of those issues for us. Ah well it's still a blast, thanks for the help!