Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - Technical Issues Cannot enable "Direct Connections"

Hello,

When I try to enable "Direct Connections" from within the game I get an error message saying "Changing direct connect settings failed". Any ideas why this might be?

Cheers,

Lomax

From the main menu, can you change the setting from the Game section of the options?

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before starting the game?
If you are using a third party firewall, check the settings.

Try exiting out of the Steam client completely, if applicable, and starting the game directly from the '..\SteamApps\common\Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition\Shipping\EoCApp.exe' program file, by right clicking and running as administrator.

Thanks! I'm using the GoG version of the game, and Windows Firewall. I've tried disabling the firewall with no change. From the main menu I can enable/disable the direct connection option, but that has no effect on the in-game setting.

Try doing a clean boot and then test the game (running as administrator). Click Start, or hit WinKey-R, type in msconfig and hit enter; in the General tab, click Selective Startup, uncheck Load startup items (if required) and leave Load system services and Use original boot configuration options checked. Next, Click on the Services tab, check the box to Hide all Microsoft services, then click the Disable All button, then click OK and reboot the computer.
Run msconfig again to switch back to the normal boot configuration.


Try resetting your network adapter:
- click Start (or Search in Win 10), type cmd into the search box, right click Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
- type the following command and hit Enter
netsh winsock reset
- when that is done, there should be a message 'Winsock reset completed successfully'
- type exit and hit Enter, then reboot your computer.
For more details, see:
https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Resetting_Network_Adapter_(Winsock_Reset)


It is a different problem, but if you have a Bigfoot network adapter, see the D:OS topic Killer Networks NIC and can't load the game? Fix!.