Dual Boxing & Lost Connection on Inactive Displays

Let me start by mentioning that I have run 2, 3, 4 even 5 accounts on this computer at once and never...never had this issue until this morning.

I was trying to run 3 this morning and I noticed that suddenly accts 2 and 3 were dropping off. Lost Connection to ...." It doesn't happen on my active window. It's whatever window(s) I have running CoH in the background. I checked the netgraph and the ping (which normally hovers around 100) starts to slowly drop off into about 4000 and then I get the lost connection. If I switch back to any account as the active window, its right back up.

Furthermore if I run just 1 account and take focus off it (I play windowed but maximized) and open internet explorer or something, its fine, even multiple windows are fine. Its only when I put focus on one window that any other instances of CoH start to slowly die.

I tried stopinactivedisplay didn't help.

Any other suggestions on things I can try or is this some backlash from the anniversary event or something? It just popped up outta nowhere.

Ummm...Dogbert technical support comes through again.


I Shut Up
I Rebooted
I Think its working again

*sigh*

Will post again if issue resumes.

Some things to check are if anyone else is doing some heavy P2Ping or reboot the ole router if you're using one.

Usually this happens if your active client is hogging the CPU too much and the ones in the background can't run often enough to maintain a connection.

If you have a dual-core CPU, I've found "-renderthread 0 -maxinactivefps 5" to be a good set of options for keeping everything running (for *all* of them including the foreground one).