Horrendous mining experience on XB1
- Thread starter CMDR Jefferson Spaceplane
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Seconded, thirsted & fourthed. I’ve had one or two little issues in my time with ED & every single time got some great help from the community. Rep fully earned. Nukem out.
Maybe one of the mods could extract the dns advice out and pin it for future commanders and any dns issues
Go over to your Xbox. Hold down the power switch till it turns off. Then unplug cable. Unplug your internet too. Then start everything up again. If have your Xbox set to “instant turn on” then change that to “power save” mode... That way your Xbox will completely shut down each time... I know it takes longer to start. But you will not experience the same annoying glitches the Xbox does now and then when it is on standby or slumber mode... I had the same issue with my Xbox x. But this fixed it.
The only time my game freezes is right when my ship is going down into a hanger after landing on a pad. No issues mining.
So for a while I’ve not seen this until tonight. I am trapped in the vicinity of Titus Station in HIP 8396. I can go to supercruise but if I try to go to FSD jump the countdown stops at zero & whole game freezes.
I have power cycled, cache cleared, & board swapped all to no effect.
I’m on my fifth attempt now & decided to post this rather than throw the hotas through the tv.
It shouldn’t be this hard to just navigate the game.
I have power cycled, cache cleared, & board swapped all to no effect.
I’m on my fifth attempt now & decided to post this rather than throw the hotas through the tv.
It shouldn’t be this hard to just navigate the game.
You don't mention if you've restarted your router/modem for your Internet connection too.
I can't remember seeing anywhere what mode your using and if you've tried switching between Solo/Private Group/Open and whether that has any affect on your connection. Someone with better knowledge than I may be able to explain this better but.....ED uses a Peer to Peer architecture which means the heavy lifting to run the game is done by our XBoxes, the servers only provide points of reference for things like BGS/Mission board/Market Info etc and when in PG/Open we need to be able to connect to Other Players directly. So apart from the DNS setting discussed in a previous post there's another setting that can affect the game called NAT (Network Address Translation) and ED works best when this is set to 'Open' (or at least in my experience it does). The following reference is to the Microsoft Help Page that explains this in detail and how to check/set it.
https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/networking/nat-error-solution
If you're not already using 'Open' NAT then I would recommend you switch to using it, it may help.
N.B. As with any change make a note of what the current values are before you change anything so you can back it out if it all goes pear shaped.
p.s. Are you connecting to your router wirelessly ? - if so try a direct cable connection see if that improves the situation. In my household I've found this improves game performance when others are using the wireless connection to browse the web and particularly if they're streaming video contect from youTube / Netflix etc.
I can't remember seeing anywhere what mode your using and if you've tried switching between Solo/Private Group/Open and whether that has any affect on your connection. Someone with better knowledge than I may be able to explain this better but.....ED uses a Peer to Peer architecture which means the heavy lifting to run the game is done by our XBoxes, the servers only provide points of reference for things like BGS/Mission board/Market Info etc and when in PG/Open we need to be able to connect to Other Players directly. So apart from the DNS setting discussed in a previous post there's another setting that can affect the game called NAT (Network Address Translation) and ED works best when this is set to 'Open' (or at least in my experience it does). The following reference is to the Microsoft Help Page that explains this in detail and how to check/set it.
https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/networking/nat-error-solution
If you're not already using 'Open' NAT then I would recommend you switch to using it, it may help.
N.B. As with any change make a note of what the current values are before you change anything so you can back it out if it all goes pear shaped.
p.s. Are you connecting to your router wirelessly ? - if so try a direct cable connection see if that improves the situation. In my household I've found this improves game performance when others are using the wireless connection to browse the web and particularly if they're streaming video contect from youTube / Netflix etc.
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1st, I am glad you removed 127.0.0.1 from your DNS. That is the loopback adapter on all network cards. So essentually you were asking your XBOX to resolve DNS from itself which would fail then it would move to the next server. This would introduce unnecessary DNS delays.
Now, this also sounds like packet loss.
On a computer connected to your home network, open a command prompt.
Type ping 8.8.8.8 -t
let that run for about 30 second, the press ctrl-C.
I the statistics look at Packets: Send = x, Recieved = x, Lost = x, there should not be any Lost. If there is 1 or 2 maybe that is OK but 10 or more is bad.
Then look at round trip in mili-seconds. Average should not be over 100Ms if you have an average speed internet service.
If you see a lot of packet loss call you ISP. It could be your cable box, wiring, or something on their network.
Thanks Commander. I’ll look into this ASAP & let you know.
Regards, Nukem.
Regards, Nukem.
I've made approximately 500m creds mining and not one credit has come from the res itself. I drop anywhere in the ring my heart desires and I get results. I wouldn't even bother in the RES's. You drop, you'll either get a pirate or a system security force ship...if a pirate scans and sees only limpets, he'll grumble but move on without firing on you.
I'm betting this is a connection issue and I'm also betting that you are using wifi to connect your XBox to your router. I made a thread about this earlier...for whatever reasons, XBox wifi is finicky. Even with the router in the same room, it would struggle to connect. Endless blue tunnels. Failure to communicate with ajudication servers, with matchmaking servers, with everything!
I switched to a wired connection and boom...never had a single issue again.
Your mileage may vary but it worked for me.
I switched to a wired connection and boom...never had a single issue again.
Your mileage may vary but it worked for me.
You’re right about WiFi and it is always a problem not just with ED, unfortunately for me a wired connection is not an option due to the location of phone sockets & routers etc etc.
Then I'm afraid the issue may never resolve itself. Going wired was the only thing that worked for me. Best of luck, CMDR.
I got a really cheap (£5.65) 30m LAN cable from amazon, to do mine quality is poor I wouldn't want to use it on a Gbit network but it works as a 10/100 cable and does the job. Alternative would be powerline adapters if you can't trail the cable which convert your existing power socket cabling to carry the network signal ....but that's a little more expensive, might be worth a look.