Random disconnections from servers, including my own

[Gridalien]

I've been getting randomly disconnected from servers ingame with this little error message that doesn't seem to be going away any time soon;




I'm guessing it's an issue with Steam. It's been disconnecting wildly, as far as I can tell. But my friend says he and some other people he knows have it happening to them too.

What about you guys? This happening for any of you?

 

[Tigerkev]

Probably a steam problem can't do anything about it. Try deleting the clientregistry.blob or something but i don't think it'll work unless steam fixes it.

 

[zeus9860]

I think cartman said if you put steam on high priority it probably fixes that issue... It's been a long time since i had that problem too so idk what to do exactly.


EDIT:

If you happen to get "steam connection lost" regularly and on a single core computer you should try to boost steams priority after starting msc, steam has a tendency to freeze if it has no free cpu cycles to work with, boosting steams priority up a notch usually fixes that. When that happens you will likely get that error, had this problem quite a bit on my old single core amd comp.

 

[cartman-2000]

^I'd try above normal priority first before trying high, worked on my old comp with it just at above normal priority. priority settings on windows are "very extreme" compared to other systems, like linux for example. Above normal priority setting on my old amd comp gave like a 95+% boost in priority over processes at normal priority, and some of the system processes run at high priority, steam would slow the entire system down if it happened to eat up all of your cpu at high priority.

One other thing you have to keep in mind is that if you run steam in above normal priority then it'll also give some of the games run from it the same priority, you my have to bump hl down to normal if it gets run with above normal priority.

 

[Gridalien]

I'm guessing Steam either settled down, or one of the solutions I tried worked. Thanks for the help anyways, guys.

 

[franky200]

The way i fix it is logging on to a second steam account and going into Voice chat with myself... not honestly a good way to do it but it somehow fixes it for me.