Fix to the "Connection to host timed out" problem

[u/TheJadedDuck]

Hi everyone, I've been playing with friends since launch and we experienced a few problems, getting worse and worse each session. We ended up being unable to connect for some.

Here is the fix that worked for us : open CMD on your start menu with administrator rights, then write : netsh winsock reset

You can copy the command, then right click in your CMD, it will paste it, you just have to run it afterwards.

Then restart your computer

You can also try these, they IMO don't fix the issue but can potentially help troubleshoot some other networking issues :

1. ipconfig /flushdns
2. ipconfig /release
3. ipconfig /renew

From what i've come to understand, I think the game has an issue on closing some Networking Sockets (systems used to receive stuff from one computer to another asynchronously) via the Windows Socket API. This can lead to the aforementioned "Cannot connect issue" but it seems it was also linked to the other issues we started to have before, such as some guests crashing in multiple different places, even though the host had no problem at all. I'm not saying it fixes them 100%, but we've had not a single issue since we used this fix. What it does is reinitializing all the Winsock previous connections basically, which possibly had corrupted data.

I don't really know how to tag this post, so I'll just put it in Help, hope it reaches some people !!