Multiplayer game stability

[fireonice]

Have any other medium to big (10-13 people) size groups of people been experiencing a large amount of crashes when the game starts?

Usually the game crashes within 1-3 months of the game beginning and most of the time it's someone different. These issues progressively get worse as time goes on. For example, as we have began a 1444 game and are up to 1671 - it's virtually unplayable.

I just want to make paradox know that there are issues and my group has been clicking the 'send bug reports' to you all. Hopefully this is a quick fix as it's causing a massive problem in the enjoyment of multiplayer where we spent a quarter of the night re-hosting games.

Also, I'm not sure how easy this would be, but eu4 desperately needs to have the same multiplayer stability as HOI4 (currently my favority paradox multiplayer game)...regardless, hot join does not work in eu4 right now and crashes generally happen once every ten years or so and it becomes more frequent as the game progresses.

Thanks in advance

 

[Lt_Anders]

Plz fix. I want to play game without rehosting all the time.

 

[Bigvalco]

I was severely disappointed coming back to play the game with the new dlc after not playing for at least 2 years. If I can remember correctly, the game was more stable back then compared to now.

 

[hajutze]

I've noticed there is a big chance of crash occuring if there are ANY actions on the 1st day of the (re)host. Try playing on speed 1 for 4-5 days THEN pause for a couple of minutes.

 

[hashinshin]

Have noticed this.

 

[Smokoboss]

Yes, also been having this issue

 

[Ninaran]

Can confirm this. Even waiting 30 seconds before unpausing and everyone playing on the same language doesn't help. Random crashes happen, and it's not always the same person. Sometimes we can play a few years before a crash, sometimes it's just a few weeks.
We submitted reports every time so we hope that helps.

 

[RunForrestRun]

tell me about it
With the new patch I'm now having crashes even in SP... I guess I should just leave for some time until paradox gets their shit together

 

[wingzero890]

Hopefully a fix is released by the end of this month...

 

[nonickITA]

Hopefully a fix is released by the end of this month...

well since we paid 20$ (for the umpteenth time) it should be fixed a long time ago

 

[richie05]

Hopefully a fix is released by the end of this month...

This game has been out for 2+ years, it should not decrease in stability as the game gets older. That is fucking retarted.

 

[hajutze]

I'd understand an OOS problem getting past their LAN games but outright crashing ...

 

[wingzero890]

well since we paid 20$ (for the umpteenth time) it should be fixed a long time ago

yes

 

[fireonice]

I've noticed there is a big chance of crash occuring if there are ANY actions on the 1st day of the (re)host. Try playing on speed 1 for 4-5 days THEN pause for a couple of minutes.

What we have been trying is to leave it on 1 speed for the first month and have nobody touch any events and move units or anything until the first month has past...then I increase these speed to 2 for about a month and then to 3... Most of the crashes happen in this time frame.

 

[StarNaN]

Hello, thank you for your reports. The best way to help us solve crashes is to provide us with the following information:
1. Logs, the folder can be found here(windows): C:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\
2. Dumps, take the related file or files from(windows): C:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\dumps
3. Dxdiag log. Information how to get a dxdiag log can be found here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...hat-to-post-common-technical-problems.831430/
4. Are you cross platforming? If you are, between which Operating Systems?

If you do not have Windows, please use the following thread to find logs and dumps: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...hat-to-post-common-technical-problems.831430/

 

[fireonice]

Hello, thank you for your reports. The best way to help us solve crashes is to provide us with the following information:
1. Logs, the folder can be found here(windows): C:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\
2. Dumps, take the related file or files from(windows): C:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\dumps
3. Dxdiag log. Information how to get a dxdiag log can be found here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...hat-to-post-common-technical-problems.831430/
4. Are you cross platforming? If you are, between which Operating Systems?

If you do not have Windows, please use the following thread to find logs and dumps: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...hat-to-post-common-technical-problems.831430/

We can send you all logs, but where do we send them?. Also, I use windows 10. Most of the people in our games are windows 10 or windows 7

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Say, has support for cross platform truly and fully dropped?

I tried again recently, and it desyncs very fast. In contrast with older versions, a Linux version will now not "officially" desync, but the player will eventually freeze many days/months behind the other players.

I haven't seen any evidence of cross platform compatibility as advertised since 1.5. Not 1.15, but rather the version that existed in summer 2014.

 

[londoner247]

We can send you all logs, but where do we send them?. Also, I use windows 10. Most of the people in our games are windows 10 or windows 7

Upload them here would be my guess

 

[nonickITA]

Any news guys? devs?

 

[MaXimillion]

Is there any progress being made on this? Do you guys still need more dumps? The logs generated by the crash are unfortunately empty so not much help to be found there.