normal games (i.e. not proxy) dropped from server

[Burst]

If I'm hosting without proxy and nobody joins within a few minutes, my game simply disappears from the server.  Lackey return a message or disconnect my game if it's not visible anymore so unless I periodically check the server I won't know either and I'll simply be waiting for nothing.

If I host proxy then no problem.

I'm not losing my connection,  all my netowrk traffic continues as normal in other programs and I'm still communicating with the server obviously because I can see messages from people and changes in other games as well, it's just the normal games that disappear.

[Trevor]

Does this issue happen all the time, or just randomly?

[Burst]

it's hard to tell,  if all goes according to plan, I put up a game and soon somebody comes in.  Once a game starts I don't know if it's still available on the server I don't go back to check usually.

so I only see it when the game doesn't attract attention - but I "think" it happens it regularly under those circumstances.

I'll put one up with an univiting name and see what happens.    If you want to monitor, I'll be logged in as Burst

[Burst]

19:16:21  EDT  started a Normal game

then I went back to work

checked back at 19:52 and it was gone from server

I don't know when in between there it disappeared.  I know it lasted at least a few minutes, but after 2 or 3 I quit checking

[Burst]

tried again at 9:02pm,  it was gone by 9:31pm, I'm pretty sure it lasted at least 10 minutes

[Alastair]

This sounds very much like the old bug where the connection to the server would drop randomly but give no indication that it had done so.

[AuraDragon]

I have this problem too.

[Trevor]

I think I know what causes this and I fixed it in a Lackey I haven't yet posted. Once I fix the normalize.dll issue, Ill post the fix.

[Burst]

the disappearing normal game happened again last time I was hosting (Jan 29)

I switched back to proxy and I had someone join my game in a few minutes.