Originally Posted by ZaltysZ (Post 299619)

The steam issue can be very simple. Steam just disconnects at some specific time, and dedicated server panics instead of gracefully continuing its work while trying to reconnect to Steam. Maybe this could be easily reproducible by manipulating firewall rules, if they can't afford dedicated server with external IP or can't make a deal with router administrator for forwarding them a few ports. :) 2 pc behind a router: 1 dedicated server and one client. Kill internet access to dedicated server (or just access to steam), and client will probably get disconnected from server.

By the way, it may be helpful if Steam is launched with "-tcp" parameter, which should improve reliability of connection.

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball (Post 302601)

not sure that is true..my router froze up last night but the server just kept going...as soon as i rebooted my router it was not list in game browser but it was still going.

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Originally Posted by Ataros (Post 302613)

Could it mean Steam disco is not a connection problem but internal server problem?

When Repka had this Steam disco error I saw a couple of times a really weird processor load pattern, i.e. all 4 cores load jumped from 100% to 0% and back randomly several times. I do not know either disco causes this processor behavior or visa versa.

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball (Post 302628)

have you had a disco since the patch?