When I try and download or browse mods in any field, my wireless internet suddenly hangs. An initial list of mods comes up on the main Mods page (a cached version perhaps), but if I try and browse by category, change the way the mods are listed, or try and download one listed, my connection hangs. The spinning green dot continues to spin, the download stalls at "Connecting".
After this, if I go back and click exit, the game GUI exits but the music continues. Task manager shows that, though I clicked exit ingame and it seemed to exit, the process is still running and I need to kill it manually.
The strangest thing about this is that it kills my entire internet connection, it doesn't just fail for Civ5. I noticed this once when I tried after a patch (to see if they fixed it), I was streaming a video in background and the stream suddenly hanged. I alt-tab'ed to find out I couldn't access any websites on the internet. It is only until I kill the Civilization5.exe process that I can get connectivity for my box back.
When running network monitor in the background I see a big spike of activity but then it craps out.
My situation:
I am on a laptop running win 7 32bit and on wireless.
My steam directory is on my D:/ drive.
EDIT: I was able to see multiplayer games before and able to join them. Currently none are showing up in the browser but that might be unrelated, a bug with 1.0.20
My initial guesses:
Civ mods might use a protocol for downloading that my wireless driver can't handle. IDK if that is the case, I assume that the mods are being directly dled from a single server via ftp or something.
After this, if I go back and click exit, the game GUI exits but the music continues. Task manager shows that, though I clicked exit ingame and it seemed to exit, the process is still running and I need to kill it manually.
The strangest thing about this is that it kills my entire internet connection, it doesn't just fail for Civ5. I noticed this once when I tried after a patch (to see if they fixed it), I was streaming a video in background and the stream suddenly hanged. I alt-tab'ed to find out I couldn't access any websites on the internet. It is only until I kill the Civilization5.exe process that I can get connectivity for my box back.
When running network monitor in the background I see a big spike of activity but then it craps out.
My situation:
I am on a laptop running win 7 32bit and on wireless.
My steam directory is on my D:/ drive.
EDIT: I was able to see multiplayer games before and able to join them. Currently none are showing up in the browser but that might be unrelated, a bug with 1.0.20
My initial guesses:
Civ mods might use a protocol for downloading that my wireless driver can't handle. IDK if that is the case, I assume that the mods are being directly dled from a single server via ftp or something.
. Nice that you've joined to help the community.
that's not that nice.