Demigod still randomly crashing, taking down my internet connection

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Hi everyone!

Starting around late last week, I ran into a problem where I would randomly crash in the middle of the game, and the crash would kill my entire internet connection. Router reset didn't work, repair connection didn't work - I had to manually restart the computer to get the net connection back.

It continued to happen, and I noticed then that on the original disconnect/crash, Demigod would stay running, even though it booted me to the desktop. If I Ctrl-Alt-Del'ed, it showed Demigod as taking up around 650k in memory, but the weird thing is that hitting end task won't stop it from running. Since it won't stop running, a normal restart doesn't work and I have to do a hard restart.

I love Demigod, but this is getting pretty frustrating, and it happens in about 33% of the games I play. By the time I'm able to get my friends together and everyone has finally gotten into the lobby without crashing, it sucks when the game gets ruined because I get dropped halfway through. I saw a few other threads before from people with this similar problem, but it was never addressed or discussed.

Are people still having this issue? Is there ANYONE who has a suggestion on what I can do to fix it? The other 66% of the time, the game works fine - this is really the only major issue I've been having. As far as I know all my drivers are updated, and I never had this problem until the patch from the 18th. Please help!

ETA: I also have all the proper ports open/forwarded, so I'm pretty sure it's not a port issue. The router is pretty new - Linksys WRT54G2.

Also, this is the last portion of the log from DemigodLog.txt right before the connection drops:

warning: c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\gpggal\DeviceD3D9.cpp(966) Device lost
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file_info.cpp(152): File has run-time type tag of 0x8000002d, which doesn't match this version of Granny (0x80000026).  Automatic conversion will be attempted.)
info: Total Material Count: 24 Total Mesh Count: 24
info: Can't find texture "/env/common/layers/none_normal.dds" -- trying fallback.
warning: c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\gpggal\DeviceD3D9.cpp(966) Device lost

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I had similar issues... no game crash, but demigod would crap out my internet connection at times during play.  I found that if I restarted windows, I'd be able to get back on the internet.  That said, I port forwarded correctly, but never configured impulse reactor.  Well, I got around to doing that as well and I haven't had the internet drop ever since... not to say the issue is resolved, but its been a good week without it occuring (before it was occurring every 1-2 days).  Maybe give that a shot and post ur results. 

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I currently have ports 6073 & 6100-6200 open; which ones am I missing for Impulse Reactor?

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I have same WRT54G v8 so we have very similar models...

In impulse reactor, I have start port 6100 and end port 6200... in the router, I am forwarding 6073-6200 UDP to my static ip. 

See my settings for security below.  I'm pretty sure i don't have things configed 100% correctly, but give it a go and see if your results are similar to mine.

Block Anonymous Internet Requests 
Filter Multicast 
Filter Internet NAT Redirection 
Filter IDENT(Port 113) 

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Just unchecked Multicast filtering, so hopefully that helps.

I'm not sure what you mean by you have ports 6100-6200 open in Impulse Reactor and the others on the router...I had all mine open just in the router as I don't see any port options within Impulse itself. Am I missing them?

Ahhhh, just found it in the bin folder. This is likely the source of my problems. Thanks!

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

use need to use impulse reactor.  the path on my pc is C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Demigod\Bin\ImpulseReactorOptions.exe

Updating this was the ONLY change I made at the time... and that seemed to resolve my problem... again... SEEMED

 Good luck!  Reply to this again once your internet dies again or you go a few days w/o issue.  I'm curious to see if this works for you.