
Note: for the non-crashing player, the game doesn’t end as the AI seems to take over the crashed player at this point (not sure if this is unusual or as intended).I can see you've tagged this AOE 2 - we play LAN games of AOE 2 in our office network successfully with a mixed environment of Windows 7/XP machines.
The Dell laptop randomly crashes to desktop 30-50 minutes into the game. Play 1v1 multiplayer game connected to another computer, both computers being in the same home connected to the same Wifi network. Figure out why we’re not able to host LAN games. Figure out what’s causing Dell XPS 15 to crash. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can try to fix this ridiculous bug that practically ruins the game. Have tried updating the OS and drivers to no avail. We’re on the same home Wifi network and just want to play LAN, I don’t understand why this has to be so complicated.Īt least it looks like this issue is limited to something specific to the Dell XPS 15 9750. After trying so many different things and finally finding a solution (Hamachi), the latest update broke this functionality, and so has practically made the game unplayable again. This is pretty ridiculous and such a buzzkill having a game crash an hour in with no recovery options. Without Hamachi, neither of us could ever connect to each other’s games on LAN even before the update. Now the LG is no longer able to connect to the Dell’s LAN game on Hamachi, with the error: "Unable to detect Battleserver (Error: R_NATFailure). We’d actually found a solution where it wouldn’t crash if we both used Hamachi (Hamachi lets you self-host a VPN and connect via LAN) and I could host a LAN game on the Dell that both of us could connect to (for whatever reason the LG couldn’t), but the recent July 21st AOE2 update broke this. One time we both tried to play online with other people in a 4v4 match and the Dell got disconnected <10 minutes into the game. The crashing always happens on the Dell laptop, but never the other one (the other being a LG Gram 17). I’m playing against a family member in the same house on the same Wifi connection, and both of us have firewalls turned off (both playing Microsoft/Xbox Live version). Laptop is Dell (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650). When it crashes, typically what happens is the game just instantly exits and I’m taken to my desktop. The game is randomly crashing during multiplayer custom games, anywhere between 15-50 minutes into the game.