Restart to receive invites
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Noire
Recently a few friends and I have been having issues with invites.
upon us requesting to be invited to a world we must request the invite then restart the game to have the invite show up in the notification. I tend to request from a few people just incase one fails as restarting my game just to see if I have gotten any notifications is rather annoying.
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tracked
We're actively investigating this issue and hope to have a proper fix implemented in a future update.
In the meantime, as a temporary workaround, you may want to consider disabling IPv6 which has resolved this issue for other users. You can do this by following the process on this site: https://contenthub.streamlabs.com/content-hub/post/how-to-solve-ipv6-issues
If you are using Oculus Quest in standalone you will need to look into disabling it in your router.
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Mango_666
This is
still
an issue up to this day. I can't get notifications, including invites.
My friends statuses don't update so I can't tell if they are online or not.
Friend locations don't update.
IPv6 is disabled already.
I get notifications on the VRChat websites but can't even invite myself to instance because guess what? I can't see invites!
Only solution I've found is to restart VRChat which is annoying, especially if you're in a lobby with friends already.
Free hugs․․․
Actually it's much worse that anticipated. In my previous comment I said up to an hour. It seems that it's up to a minute. I tried multiple times and it seems that I get invites and requests only right after I start the game and then within the first minute it breaks.
Free hugs․․․
Over the past few days this has gotten way worse. Within an hour I no longer receive any invites or requests. If I keep vrchat.com/home open in the browser that also stops receiving notifications very quickly.
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Wax7
This Bug ist still here
LigerXT5
Can confirm. I've been having this odd issue for over a year. I don't jump into VR often, 1-2 times a week, so it hasn't been up there enough to start looking until recent. As the pinned suggestion said, I already have IPv6 disabled on my computer, and this is still ongoing. I've got some friends who are starting to get annoyed that I ask via other means, than sending an invite. Well, I did, 10 minutes ago, you just clarified you didn't receive it, lol. Yes, many people receive requests, and ignore those, I've already talked with my friends and they are aware if I send three invites, it's not because I'm being a pain, the notification system is borked. Oh, and that 1min on hud timeout, really needs reviewing, I've had a number of people say they didn't see it on their hud, but noticed when they opened their menu.
TheXev
I have a bit more info on this topic as it has been happening to me for a very long time. I was using Cellular internet, then eventually switched to StarLink. In periods of long packet drop out, afterward is usually when the invite issues begin. This also seems to stop the friends list from updating at the same time while also resulting in a world time out (although the timing out of the instance has improved a lot in more recent clients).
My guess is that when an instance time out occurs, the client isn't reconnecting to the part of VRChat servers that accepts invites or refreshes the friends list.
owlboy
1 What was the fix, and was it implimented?
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owlboy: We eventually tracked down the issue to to certain router models that have a IPv6 firewall that doesn't play nice with some games. Unfortunately, due the nature of the issue any "fixes" would have to include reworking of a lot of different systems so there hasn't been a proper fix from our side yet.
There have also been some reports from users without an IPv6 address but since those are much more rare we haven't been able to track down a proper cause for them yet. Additionally, there's the current issue with launching from the website or having a specific world in your launch parameters but those are also unrelated.
But thanks for the ping I should update the message here a bit!
owlboy
1: Thank you!
Tony_Lewis
1: 1 thing to point, now at day, more site only has only IPv6 support as normal due to shortage of IPv4 stock.
As of this, Microsoft requested to use
netsh interface ipv6 set prefixpolicy ::ffff:0:0/96 100 4
than disable IPv6 past few month.
So updating instruction be good point but better to update it to proper way.
(As.....you may not able to see many more website in the feature.)
~Babo~
1: Could you please share more about what you learned internally about this issue? What is the issue exactly, is this a known issue documented elsewhere, is this specific to vrchat or photon or unity or steam games in general, which router models are affected, are there any known configuration changes that might help besides disabling ipv6?
~Babo~
1: pretty please with sugar on top?
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~Babo~: Hi, sorry about that seems that I've missed your previous message. I do not have a list of specific router models but we are aware it's a feature on for example routers offered by Spectrum and Charter. You can bypass it by disabling the IPv6 Firewall included in the affected routers but we do not recommend disabling your routers security features.
LigerXT5
1: I use neither ISP or the routers. I don't mind sharing more advanced info, just let me know what. I use a Mikrotik Router Board as my router (non-wifi model), on 1Gb/50Mb service (Optimum/Suddenlink/Altice) with a standard Arris Passthrough Modem.
The issues I have come and go, and so far no pattern found other than DMing friends on Discord to see if they got it (granted, even then there's human error).
So long as VRChat doesn't decide to use a black listed IP (rotates weekly, pulls a list of IPs that point to bad actors), and doesn't have any of their services blocked by PiHole adblocking lists, shouldn't have issue. Mind you, I have disabled both "security" features, restarted everything, and still had issues (otherwise I'd have whitelisted what was needed and not posting here, lol).
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these issues might be Region based. I moderate an unofficial-subreddit for a social anonymous chat app (app itself has been going down hill), and I see spikes of people unable to do one or selection of features in one area, say half Florida and a quarter of Georgia, while other areas are just fine, lasting a day to a couple weeks, then swaps up for another area with a different issue (say Chat DMs and post comments fail to send). lol
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LigerXT5: While we've received a few support requests where the user has not been either on Spectrum or Charter, due to how rare they have been we've unfortunately haven't been able to track down further causes for it or if it even is related to the what we usually see.
Additionally, you appear to mention you are having issues with sending invites instead of receiving them? The reports we usually get are about users not receiving invites while sending them have not been an issue, which makes it sound like your issue is separate from this canny.
If you can reliably reproduce the issue I recommend submitting a support request with all the information you have and an output log where you reproduce the issue so we can see if we can gather some more information: https://vrch.at/support
LigerXT5
1: You are correct, my issue appears to be in the reverse. It's not all users, just the ones I normally hang out with, and most of them report not seeing the notification.
As for reliably reproducing it, not close to 100%, I can't reproduce it on demand. I'm sure many can relate, when you want something to "break" on demand, it never does and just works fine. lol
Next time I confirm a notification didn't go through (I'll follow up with the people via Discord), I'll grab the VRChat logs.
~Babo~
LigerXT5: it sounds like your friends are encountering this issue, and you are getting the second hand experience.
LigerXT5
~Babo~: That might be the case, though it seems to be only noticed by me. If they had other friends mention the same, then I'd agree without question. lol
Tony_Lewis
As of Microsoft not recommand disable IPv6 this way due to other issue may occure.
There is alternative that you can set to use IPv4 result than IPv6 by pririty setting though elevated command prompt.
To make IPv4 DNS result first then IPv6 follow,
run following.
netsh interface ipv6 set prefixpolicy ::ffff:0:0/96 100 4
To reset to previous condition,
netsh interface ipv6 reset
Do restart your PC once done.
No longer require to disable IPv6 and can use IPv6 related service without issue by now..
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I start getting some users got issue when disabled IPv6 on Chrome based browser for unstable condition.
So it is no longer ideal solution to disable IPv6 for reason.
If you still have issue,
Use Clouldflare WARP or make your own VPN server on AWS/GCP.
(Major VPN provider be blocked on VRChat FYI)
~Babo~
Tony_Lewis: Thank you for the suggestions. I tried the netsh fix and using 1.1.1.1 with DoH and neither seems to help.
~Babo~
I tried NextDNS desktop client and it did not help. Cloudflare WARP seems to be the only thing that works with IPv6.
Tony_Lewis
~Babo~: VRChat may block all major public VPN provider to avoid DDoS attack so it can be like that. Cloudflare WARP is exception from that list.
~Babo~
Tony_Lewis: Unfortunately it also requires me to login again almost every time I start VRC.
Tony_Lewis
~Babo~: If u don't like it, make your own VPN server on VPS with static IP option, then u don't need to worry anymore.
~Babo~
Tony_Lewis: I found out that Microsoft actually recommends doing this with a registry edit as described at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/configure-ipv6-in-windows#use-registry-key-to-configure-ipv6
In registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters
add key "DisabledComponents" with hex value 0x20 (decimal 32).
This sets the configuration for "Prefer IPv4 over IPv6" and is "Recommended instead of disabling IPv6."
Tony_Lewis
~Babo~: That's the thing which above command do...it's same. (and safer than touching registry directly)
Bamber
I'm currently suffering from this issue (for over a month now), on a daily basis I will stop receiving any in-game notifications after about 10 minutes.
Have tried disabling IPv6 to no effect.
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