Disconnected Due to Time Out!

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Disconnected Due to Time Out!

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Okay. After moving to an SSD and updating my system, I don't get Enhanced anymore. No runtime crashes, nothing of the sort.
But in the stead, there is something new happening that wasn't happening before - I'm getting disconnected randomly.

I can be in full activity in the middle of RP, combat, or any time, and the game suddenly just... stops receiving or sending information. As if the server had just crashed. But of course, it didn't crash - it's just me.

If I disconnect myself manually and try to relog in the server, it gives me the "CD Key is already in use" message. I have to wait until it manually times me out before I can relog properly.
And it happens once every few hours. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes I may be 20 minutes into the game and I may time out.

I know this has happened consistently both in Planes and Surface. Any suggestion?
I should note that this is a NWN specific problem, since I don't get this kind of dropout with any other game.

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Re: Disconnected Due to Time Out!

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I would also like to know because this happens to me, too. It stopped for a month a while back but has started to pick up again.
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Re: Disconnected Due to Time Out!

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Okay. An update on this.

After some help from Symphony, I think I found what solved it for me.
Most computers, in my anecdotal experience, use DHCP protocols as default.
So we just switched the IP type to Static, and I haven't timed out ever since.

There's probably a super simple way to change IP type. I don't really know.
I used a program called Portforward, activated it on trial, used the "Set Static IP" function, and deleted it just as fast.
https://portforward.com/

Hopefully it'll work for whoever is having the same problem.

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