Server select empty when using wifi (linux)

[loramin]

Originally Posted by mrquincy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Suspect you're pushing UDP traffic over a TCP vpn, which could make sense. Thanks for sharing. EQ client not set up to handle the number of servers coming in through eqemu. Zaela's fix just filters them so there's less data being sent to client.

Keep in mind Zaela's fix addressed one specific (and Linux-specific issue), that was introduced years ago.

Since then Rogean has made further changes, which is (presumably) why Middleman D stopped working for me awhile back, and I had to use a VPN. But honestly, the VPN is worth the money even separate from P99 (to let me use bit torrent safely), so that's why I haven't bothered to figure out the "real" solution.

[Rabcor]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Keep in mind Zaela's fix addressed one specific (and Linux-specific issue), that was introduced years ago.

Since then Rogean has made further changes, which is (presumably) why Middleman D stopped working for me awhile back, and I had to use a VPN. But honestly, the VPN is worth the money even separate from P99 (to let me use bit torrent safely), so that's why I haven't bothered to figure out the "real" solution.

Zaela's fix works for me, had a huge issue where everytime i launch the game my server list is empty and i'd have to wait around 30 minutes (not much less, not much more, there's like a window) before the server list would populate on my next login and i'd be able to get in.

Then I crashed on a zone-in and kinda ragequit cuz it'd take 30 mins to get back in, didn't play for a few weeks after.

Then today I tried Zaela's fix and it just worked. Maybe the reason it stopped working for you was that your eqhost.txt got reset or something? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Apparently it does 2 things, not just one, one of those things was to work around a linux issue with UDP over wifi, but that's just an afterthought, the main thing it does is to filter the serverlist to only show p99 servers, as Zaela said in the first page of this thread, so that the client doesn't have to process as big of a server list which seems to make it less error prone.

[Indefinite]

I've been using this script to start both Zaela's login helper and eq for years now. I'd still be spamming logins to get servers shown to this day without the login helper, thank you Zaela!

https://gist.github.com/mgeitz/aa295...d818d0ebb3e37a

[acedeathkill]

Every patch resets the eqhosts.txt file, which should point to localhost instead of the loginserver for the eqmiddleman utility to work.

[Benanov]

Has anyone just tried the age-old fix of changing your wireless card's txqueuelen to 0 instead of 1000? (Wifi cards might require 100 or something, gotta frob the knob a bit until you get a setting that works)

No one searches for "Bufferbloat" these days. TCP has a lot of built-in congestion control and can take a while for things to become responsive, and modern network configs put a lot of buffering and increase the lag time for those control systems to realize that yes Virginia we have a gigabit connection upstream.

[Benanov]

Turns out qlen 0 doesn't fix it. Middlemand on wifi for me too.

[rahmani]

I have the same problem described here but on LAN, which middleman fixes too.

[magicfest2]

Built for windows here: https://github.com/rm-you/p99-login-...s/tag/win-rel1

[Rabcor]

That script seems like maybe a bit much, I just installed it via lutris then configured lutris to use a pre-launch script to start a midi synthesizer (qsynth) for working audio and Zaela's login helper:

#!/bin/sh


if pgrep "qsynth" > /dev/null; then
:
else
/usr/bin/qsynth &>/dev/null
fi


if pgrep "p99-login" > /dev/null; then
exit
else
$HOME/Scripts/p99-login-middlemand &>/dev/null
fi

Then a post-exit script when i close the game:

#!/bin/sh

pkill qsynth
pkill p99-login

Honestly i'm a bit surprised Zaela's login helper isn't part of the lutris installer, it really should be. It's a godsend, I almost gave up on playing until i found out about it.

[Nori]

Anybody run into this issue on steam deck (arch linux) when trying to compile Zaela's login helper?

Code:
cc -c -o build/main.o src/main.c -O2 -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing
In file included from src/connection.h:5:0,
from src/main.c:2:
src/netcode.h:10:10: fatal error: errno.h: No such file or directory
#include <errno.h>
^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile:30: recipe for target 'build/main.o' failed
make: *** [build/main.o] Error 1

I'm trying to get EQ running on my steam deck but can't get through this step. Anybody give up on this and just use a VPN?