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-50K-Majorj0nny's avatar
3 years ago

Battlefield 5 - always problematic joining online gaming.

Product: The EA app
Platform:PC
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Which client functionality are you experiencing this bug with? Performance
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 01/11/22
Summarize your bug connection to EA online timed out - bandwidth or latency may not be enough. 999mb internet connection ?
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? when trying to load multiplayer conquest games - usually fails at "connection to EA online timed out"
What happens when the bug occurs? just get the "connection to EA timed out error"
What do you expect to see? cant get into multiplayer game

Its been a nightmare to get into online mutiplayer conquest matches for the past several weeks for me. I used to play BFV years ago and never had these issues, but recently got back into this and since have this problem.

picking conquest tacticle or conquest strategic, the matchmaking facility usually finds a squad - but then dumps me into a "connection to ea online timed out, bandwidth or latency may not be as required" or some such. I can try over and over, restart the game, the PC, try again, eventually after half an hour or so of messing about I'll suddenly get online. 

Im on a 1gb fibre ISP connection, and have tried both hard wired to the router, and wifi connection - same on both. I also have my son playing BFV on his xbox on the same network and he never gets any connection issues. 

Are there any settings in BF5 for networking? as I couldnt find anything specifically? I noticed on other forums there was some 'fix' for this on BF1 that had a specific server/network setting ? but I couldnt find similar on bf5. 

4 Replies

  • the troubleshooting guides were no help - but whats this -= 

    Please ensure that you open the ports for Battlefield V.

    is there a guide for that ? 

  • ok I switched on port forwarding from my router and added the relevant ports, is even had a profile for BF5,. still made no difference. 

    an xbox on the same network has no problems connecting to bf5, Im on a windows 10 PC. 

    Ive disabled my virus scanner incase that was doing something weird. Ive enven tried fullcone NAT on my router but still nothing seems to help. 

    Its bizare, seems sometimes it works, if I just keep trying over and over. the problem with bf5, when it fails to connect for whatever reason, you end up in some loading screen hell forever , so its a constant game of ending the process for bf5 and starting the game again. 

    when it does connect  in bf5, I have perfect performance. my ping /latency is always like 20, never glitches, and will play for hours and hours till i give up. 

    Its just making that initial connection,.  

  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    It sounds more and more like a connection issue @-50K-Majorj0nny. Have you spoken with your ISP for advise?

    Darko

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