Timed Out Error 0:85008S
Hello,
I need help with a persistent network issue that has been completely ruining my and many other players' experience lately (especially in Gauntlet and Quads modes). The game regularly kicks me out in the middle of a match or right after completing a mission (when the game progress is synced). Then I get a specific string of errors twice in a row: ERROR CODE 0:85008S: 17862870170:-2146566144Q Followed by the message: "
TIMED OUT: Your session has timed out due to inactivity and you have been disconnected." This inactivity message is meaningless because the game kicks me out in full motion while shooting. Furthermore, the problem behaves the same whether I launch the game via Steam or directly via the pure EA App. What I've already done on my PC (local error excluded):
Drivers and optimizations: I have an RTX 3060 12GB card, 32GB RAM. I did a clean install of the latest WHQL drivers. Overlays disabled: I completely disabled the in-game overlay in the NVIDIA App to avoid conflicts with the anti-cheat. Windows Firewall: I manually enabled all game items in Windows Defender Firewall (for both Private and Public networks). Network: I flushed DNS (ipconfig /flushdns and netsh winsock reset) and changed DNS to stable Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) In-game observations: I noticed that disconnections occur most often in the lobby, where there are players with extremely high latency (ping 150+ ms), who are suspected of using network exploits. It seems that under this network load, EA Anti-Cheat (Javelin) is unable to verify my account within the timeout (handshake timeout) and is preemptively disconnecting me, or the server is overloaded and stops receiving UDP packets from my PC, which causes a "Timed out" error.
Can you please confirm if you are aware of this server infrastructure issue and when can we expect a fix on the server side?