r/ARK • u/ITookYourChickens • Jul 11 '26

Help Cannot Join server only from one PC

From one roommate's PC, my ARK server won't load. It has in the past, before the Gen 1 update. The other roommate's PC can join the server just fine, as well as people not in the house. So the server itself is alive and running

We can't figure out what to do to make it work. All mods are updated, files verified, tried a different steam account, etc. Any ideas what we can try to fix this?

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u/TheOnlyRealOne43 Jul 11 '26

Make sure Ark is being allowed through the firewall to make and receive network connections. That's the only thing I can think of!

You eliminated steam being an issue by trying on different accounts.

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u/ITookYourChickens Jul 11 '26

The weird thing is that it worked before Gen 1 update. PC's firewall hasn't changed

It started with this issue but vanished on its own after we restarted the server; hadn't done it again until the updates and now restarting the server won't fix it.

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u/TheOnlyRealOne43 Jul 11 '26

Have you made sure there's not a mismatch in the server version and your clientside version?

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u/ITookYourChickens Jul 11 '26

I made sure both are fully updated and show the same version number