"No message received for XX seconds"

[Kami232 0]

I can't tell if this is a problem with 1.5.7 or with the fact that I moved from my apartment at the university back to my home for the summer. My mod is up to date. I installed it when I got into town. I can connect to the servers and I do spawn in with my character. My game and BattleEye clients are up to date.

This is the problem: after several seconds to a minute, the game locks up and the error message "No message received for XX seconds" pops up. The timer (XX) incrementally ticks up in real time seconds as it should when "connection is lost." That's effectively what I see. Note: One time after this message popped up, when I was inevitably kicked from the server, I saw a message saying "BattleEye has stopped responding." Could BE have something to do with this?

What I know is my net did not drop. Every time this issue appeared I set up to see what was going on with my net. I did a speed test (stable). I tested for packet loss (none). I even streamed a youtube video, netflix, and kept xfire voice chat up on three seperate tries as well as just a basic game run w/o any bandwidth drain besides the game. So far as I can tell, it's not the net. The game worked the other day when I was in Tucson. Now it doesn't.

I'm not even fully sure what I'm trying to fix... perhaps it's a flawed code that snuck its way into the game and only effects a few players? Maybe it's my ISP?- then why do I have no problems connecting to anything else? I don't know. A few google searches have suggested that BattleEye is to blame; the appropriate "fixes" suggested were to check my ports... I've forwarded 2302-2306 UDP as suggested on the following Steam forum thread.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1989500

No change.

Does anybody have any troubleshooting advice for this issue?

[bloggerboy 0]

When I first installed the game it worked fine...for about 30mins or so before I got the exact same message. After that I couldn't join any other server (all the pings were marked with "?"'s)

Took hours before the servers had pings again. So I joined again and played like 20mins or something when the same thing happened again.

After the third try (again 20-30mins of gameplay) I no longer get into servers at all. When it's about to load me in (after receiving data etc.) the screen is black and the chat says "Not receiving message for xx seconds".

Could someone please answer to this problem?! I've seen like 3-4 threads on the subject but NOT A SINGLE REPLY!

[Gnurkel 6]

I got the same problem. Played just fine, logged out and came back in.

Now the server indicates a discrepancy between versions, does that have anything to do with it? I used not the latest beta of ARMA 2 OA, (was told to do so because the server used an older version) but now I upgraded to the latest. Either way it won't work, and I still get an error message about version compatibility.

I spend as much time fiddling with DirectX DLL's patch versions etc as I do playing the thing...