DSX can't sense internet connection | DSX Official Server | Page 1

boreal pebble Jan 3, 2024, 3:34 AM

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Hey, y'all - today, rather suddenly, DSX will no longer boot as it can't "see" my internet connection. I have checked Windows Defender, and the app has permissions to use the connection; have even disabled Defender temporarily to check, and that still doesn't solve the problem.

Is there a logfile I can get at that would help diagnose the problem? I can't think of any specific reason this would have suddenly started not working when it was doing fine up until today. I haven't made any changes to my internet environment.

dry knoll Jan 3, 2024, 11:25 AM

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In the steamapps DSX beta folder should be a sub dir called logs, the most recent file you could post here

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 6:20 PM

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Sorry about the delay; it has been working extremely intermittently. Sometimes, the app won't launch when I first start up my PC, and will launch later. Everything else with an internet requirement is functioning, but DSX still refuses to realize that I have an internet connection seemingly at random. This didn't happen until the end of December/beginning of January. I'll get the log now.

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This is all that appears there for the first two attempts from today:

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DSX Started at 1/10/2024 08:04:59
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2024-01-10 08:05:01 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Loaded settings from file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 08:05:01 [INF] [HidHide] Incoming UDP Port Status: True | Outgoing UDP Port Status: True
2024-01-10 08:05:02 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Loaded settings from file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 08:05:03 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Saved settings to file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 09:02:37 [INF] [MainWindow] Preparing to exit DSX
2024-01-10 09:02:37 [INF] [MainWindow] Shutting down... Until next time :)
2024-01-10 09:02:54 [INF] [] ====================================================================================
DSX Started at 1/10/2024 09:02:54
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2024-01-10 09:02:56 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Loaded settings from file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 09:02:56 [INF] [HidHide] Incoming UDP Port Status: True | Outgoing UDP Port Status: True
2024-01-10 09:02:56 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Loaded settings from file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 09:02:57 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Saved settings to file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 09:08:00 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Saved settings to file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 09:08:01 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Saved settings to file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 09:14:12 [INF] [MainWindow] Preparing to exit DSX
2024-01-10 09:14:12 [INF] [MainWindow] Shutting down... Until next time :)
2024-01-10 09:14:19 [INF] [] ====================================================================================```

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I've tried uninstalling it, uninstalling the additional drivers, reinstalling everything, double-checking to make sure my clock is correct (very unsure why this would interfere with a connection check), waiting extra, checking Defender to make sure it's not firewalled (it's not), etc.

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 6:32 PM

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Odd, it is not logging much, hm...

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 6:37 PM

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A successful start has the next line as the connection to the pad

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I just checked out the other logfiles

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 7:34 PM

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I have been trying various combinations of things to get it to work today, but still no luck; lmk if there's any other information I can get you

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 7:34 PM

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What screen are you stuck exactly? Screenshot?

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 7:36 PM

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When it's not working, it's just that repeatedly. Sometimes, it just manages to get past the connection check, but I can't determine why or how.

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Mostly to make sure I'm not confusing myself. 🙂

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:01 PM

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Windows firewall usually doesn't block any OUTGOING traffic by default, how strange

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Let me get to my PC and we investigate

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:01 PM

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I appreciate your time.

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From what I can tell, nothing is getting blocked; I'm not seeing anything in my router logs that would indicate a problem, either

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:03 PM

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Open a Terminal/PowerShell

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Report back what you get each time

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Enter

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName ifconfig.me -Port 443

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(Invoke-WebRequest "https://www.apple.com/").StatusCode

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(Invoke-WebRequest "https://www.gstatic.com/generate_204").StatusCode

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:06 PM

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-ComputerName is an actual thing to enter and not a placeholder?

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:06 PM

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Exactly as I pasted it

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Nothing altered

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:07 PM

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WARNING: TCP connect to (2600:1901:0:bbc3:: : 443) failed


ComputerName     : ifconfig.me
RemoteAddress    : 34.117.118.44
RemotePort       : 443
InterfaceAlias   : Ethernet 2
SourceAddress    : 192.168.2.121
TcpTestSucceeded : True```

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:08 PM

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OK, next

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Additionally

(Invoke-WebRequest "https://ifconfig.me").StatusCode

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:08 PM

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200```

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204```

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Invoke-WebRequest : upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection timeout
At line:1 char:2
+ (Invoke-WebRequest "https://ifconfig.me").StatusCode
+  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
   eption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand```

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I can note that I am able to access ifconfig.me in a browser with no trouble

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:11 PM

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We're getting closer

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nslookup ifconfig.me

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:11 PM

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Server:  unifi.localdomain
Address:  192.168.2.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ifconfig.me
Addresses:  2600:1901:0:bbc3::
          34.117.118.44```

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And before asking: yes; I control the unifi console I'm attached to

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:12 PM

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tracert -d ifconfig.me

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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Tracing route to ifconfig.me [2600:1901:0:bbc3::]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2600:1700:49c0:6528::1
  2     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2600:1700:49c0:6520::1
  3  Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.```

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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Interesting, so for whatever reason it defaults to trying IPv6 for you, which doesn't work

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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My network is v6 by default

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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My view

tracert -d ifconfig.me

Tracing route to ifconfig.me [34.117.118.44]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2     9 ms    10 ms     7 ms  172.18.240.1
  3     9 ms     8 ms    10 ms  212.33.34.141
  4    23 ms    17 ms     7 ms  212.33.35.50
  5    12 ms    12 ms    13 ms  74.125.52.56
  6    16 ms    16 ms    13 ms  74.125.244.81
  7    12 ms    12 ms    14 ms  142.251.68.119
  8    14 ms    14 ms    10 ms  34.117.118.44

Trace complete.

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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As my ISP and most of my hardware support v6

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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Interesting

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:14 PM

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This would be the first time I have legit seen a problem like this

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:14 PM

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Do this again pls

tracert -4 -d ifconfig.me

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:14 PM

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Also very curious why it works sometimes now

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:14 PM

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boreal pebble This would be the first time I have legit seen a problem like this

It should not matter anyway since we do multiple checks in parallel so I'd suspect our code is faulty and tripped nonetheless

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Since apple and Google is reachable, that should be more than enough

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I am curious too

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:15 PM

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Tracing route to ifconfig.me [34.117.118.44]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  162.194.140.1
  3     3 ms     3 ms     3 ms  64.148.121.68
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  32.130.104.111
  8    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  12.255.10.34
  9    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  74.125.251.147
 10    12 ms    13 ms    12 ms  216.239.47.87
 11    13 ms    13 ms    12 ms  34.117.118.44

Trace complete.```

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I am a career tech support worker, so I'm more curious than upset at this point 🙂

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:16 PM

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PowerShell falls over it too

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So most probably .NET as well

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:16 PM

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ugh

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:17 PM

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But why does it cause an issue, 2 out of 3 request succeeding should be fine, according to the code

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Where are you from btw?

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:18 PM

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I'm in USA - St. Louis, MO

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Are you checking the connections one at a time or in parallel? The IPv6 connection timeout is long

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:19 PM

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No, all in parallel with a predefined short timeout

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I added another URL to the check but you'd need to wait for the next Beta Update

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I'll poke Pali to stop being so lazy PES2_FastRun

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:24 PM

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lol no worries

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I am going to see if I can do anything at unifi's cached DNS level to sort it out or force v4 for that one domain (not sure that's possible) as a workaround

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but would be happy to test for you when you ship the fix

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:26 PM

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If you have access to your firewall you could try to REJECT IPv6 and IPv4 requests to ifconfig.me's server

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:27 PM

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oh, interesting

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and I do

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blocking the traffic to ifconfig.me did not fix the problem

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:34 PM

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aPES_BrainScratch

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:35 PM

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I assume it's not being interpreted as any different from the v6 attempt failing

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also very possible that I'm missing something in configuring the rule as this is the first time I have done this with unifi

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:35 PM

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I can not see any fault in the code so we hit some deeper rooted .NET weirdness

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:36 PM

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\o/

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:36 PM

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I changed the code to enforce using IPv4 in the next version, but since I can not reproduce, it is an experiment more than anything

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:36 PM

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(nods)

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:36 PM

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I don't even have IPv6 with my current ISP

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I bet they do not even know it got released

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:37 PM

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and I fully understand that what I have going on here is not common

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hah

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:37 PM

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In conclusion, the code looks limple enough so I really wonder where it decides to break. Especially Apple and Google success should bypass that check

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So focussing on ifconfig.me alone doesn't feel right as well

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Let me test something real quick

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Yeah I blocked ifconfig.me completely, startup took a bit longer but succeeded

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Classic

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:39 PM

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hm; where did you implement the - ah

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oh, shoot, yeah - lemme black hole that

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where is hosts in Windows? I am primarily a macOS user

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:40 PM

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C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

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Obviously

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:40 PM

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heh

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I spend like 90% of my time in UNIX-like so I always ask because it's non-obvious too often for my tastes

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:41 PM

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I was joking, nobody would remember such a stupid location

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:41 PM

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oh, I know 🙂

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:41 PM

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"Jo, where to put the DNS mappings file" "Uh, sounds like a subdir in 'drivers'" "W00t"

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"Jeff, u high again?" "Yesn't"

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Ironically knowing the history of Windows (NT) drivers it makes perfect sense, the drivers "working directory" is C:\Windows\System32\drivers so a relative file path would be ./etc/whatever

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So they mangled a *nix concept with Windows core and that abomination fell out

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:44 PM

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uncomfy

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but yes

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:44 PM

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Anyway, any success?

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 PM

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not immediately, but I'm looking to make sure I actually saved the change

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still getting hung up on the step, and I have flushed DNS cache, but I'm going to reboot and try again just in case

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I am now wondering if I also need to blackhole v6

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:48 PM

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Might be

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Like so

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:11 ifconfig.me

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:51 PM

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yeah; that's what I did and I'm still not getting it, but at this point I'm chalking it up to my lack of good understanding of how Windows interacts with this stuff

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:53 PM

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This change should be fairly instant

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:55 PM

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DSX is still not seeing the connection

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 8:55 PM

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Yeah I do not think this is benefitial to your case

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 8:58 PM

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I apologize for this being such a time drain and really do appreciate your focusing on it with me

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:00 PM

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No worries, it is, uh, should be my area of expertise anyway so the more weird cases I know (and their solutions) the better for everyone

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:00 PM

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Is there any way for me to get you more verbose logging?

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:00 PM

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Yeah one sec

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Go to the app directory

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For me it is under D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DSX\Main_v3_Beta

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Open the file appsettings.json with a proper text editor (not necessarily Notepad)

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:02 PM

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I'm there

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:03 PM

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Overwrite everything with

{
    "DSX": {
        "EnableRemoteLogging": false
    },
    "Serilog": {
        "MinimumLevel": "Verbose"
    }
}

Save and restart DSX

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Then share the latest created log file from D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DSX\Main_v3_Beta\logs

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:06 PM

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oh, let me get vscode real quick instead of notepad; sigh

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:06 PM

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Notepad tends to fuck up "modern" encoding

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:08 PM

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same as the previous log files; nothing additional

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====================================================================================
2024-01-10 15:07:23 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Loaded settings from file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 15:07:23 [INF] [HidHide] Incoming UDP Port Status: True | Outgoing UDP Port Status: True
2024-01-10 15:07:24 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Loaded settings from file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 15:07:25 [INF] [] ["SettingsPage"] Saved settings to file: "app_settings.json"
2024-01-10 15:07:39 [INF] [MainWindow] Preparing to exit DSX
2024-01-10 15:07:39 [INF] [MainWindow] Shutting down... Until next time :)```

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this is my appsettings:

    "DSX": {
        "EnableRemoteLogging": false
    },
    "Serilog": {
        "MinimumLevel": "Verbose"
    }
}```

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:09 PM

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Problem is we silence that exact namespace in code so we can not override and enable it again in config 😅

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Let me also fix that for the next update

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:10 PM

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it's cool - I got a legit laugh just now, so thank you

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if you got a couple of useful patches out of this, then I'm happy to have helped with that

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I can go ahead and wait for the update to be pushed, and get you some additional feedback, or if you think of anything, feel free to ask me and I can generally get back to you before too long - I work remote/async

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:12 PM

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Aye, I am hacking in the improvements I figured out from this as we speak 😅

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And annoying Pali to prepare an update

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:12 PM

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give Pali my regards, then 🙂

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:13 PM

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He gives me excuses like "being busy"

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:14 PM

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Thanks again - I really appreciate it, and this utility is hella useful

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:16 PM

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Thanks for the feedback, usually the people who wanna see us dead are the loudest KEKW

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:16 PM

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god, isn't that familiar

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Also: thanks for your contributions to FOSS projects

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As someone steeped in FOSS myself (I work on WordPress-related things), I try to remember to say that because it's often pretty thankless work

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:18 PM

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Thanks, it is but I have adjusted quite well I think after doing this for almost 10 years now PES4_Old

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:19 PM

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My 14th year working for Automattic is coming up in two weeks, so yup - yup

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Definitely let me know if there's any other information or testing I can help you with - will be more than happy to do so

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:20 PM

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If we do not figure it out anytime soon; I have added a skip switch to the next release

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The check is unfortunately necessary or people have no idea what to do if other web components start to fail later in the app

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:21 PM

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Totally understood.

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:33 PM

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Does this work for you btw?

(Invoke-WebRequest "https://nge-2.api.nefarius.systems/ping").Content

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:33 PM

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it does

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:35 PM

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And

(Invoke-WebRequest "https://dsx.api.nefarius.systems/").Content

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:36 PM

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(Invoke-WebRequest "https://dsx.api.nefarius.systems/").Content {"message":"Server up and running"}

dry knoll Jan 10, 2024, 9:37 PM

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Good, so at least the most important stuff works 😅

boreal pebble Jan 10, 2024, 9:38 PM

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Oh, once I get past the connection test, everything works great 🙂

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And the Dualsense emulation stuff means I can use my Edge on pretty much everything without weird issues I'd sometimes get in v2 with things like rumble

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Happiest handful of dollars I have spent on anything not called Vampire Survivors

#DSX can't sense internet connection