Sudden Peer-To-Peer connection issues

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As of recent, my connection in Game Worlds (and presumably Condos, but I don’t play those multiplayer at all) has been acting… strange. Particularly, my ping has been acting odd. While normally, I would get a solid 30-60 with most hosts, it’s now averaging 150. The weirdest part is that it occasionally blips back to something more sane, usually 60 ping, for a fraction of a second. The Plaza acts fine, other Steam game servers act fine, so I don’t know what’s going on. I know the things that usually interfere with any wi-fi connection (e.g. someone using Hulu) aren’t sucking up my internet.

I’ll possibly try again on a different computer to see if this is a Steam issue or not.

EDIT: Hosting my own game does also seem to lag out the other players, according to their words, despite their ping usually appearing as something like 40.

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You should try this guide: Steam Support :: Troubleshooting Network Connectivity

Maybe it’ll help?

I’m not sure what the cause would be immediately.

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So! It turns out that, in an original fit of desperation for improving performance a few months back on my admittedly-kinda-crusty PC, I put in “-noipx” in the launch options. I removed it, and things work… better? I wouldn’t call it perfect, but it might have been the issue. I don’t know why it started having such adverse and strange effects until now, but eh.

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