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Can’t Load Screen to Watch / Play a Game – Happens every 1-2 days since July 22

This is one of the two problems I have since 22 July. The other, when the screen actually loads is: http://dev. dota2.com/showthread. php? t=47898

The game screen won’t load whether it is to play or watch a game (ladder and private). I have played tons of games. I normally am one of the first to load and have an excellent PC and internet.

This happened in the middle of a gaming session. I just finished playing a game and searched for a new game with the same party. This is what I tried:
1. Restart Dota 2
2. Restart Steam + Dota 2
3, Restart PC + Steam + Dota 2
4. Reinstall Steam + Dota 2
5. Verified game cache files

I noted that there is someone with a similar problem, but wasn’t sure whether he could watch games too. It also is similar to an old issue that seems to have been solved.
Similar pending issue: http://dev. dota2.com/showthread. php? t=45149
Old resolved issue: http://dev. dota2.com/showthread. php? t=29911

Here is some info from the console after failing to connect to a game to watch:
SetWaterMaterial()
Steam config directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\platform\config
No split screen config file ‘splitscreen_config. txt’, using defaults
ConVarRef fov_desired doesn’t point to an existing ConVar
— Missing Vgui material vgui/loadout_header
— Missing Vgui material vgui/loadout_round_rect_selected
— Missing Vgui material vgui/loadout_round_rect
— Missing Vgui material vgui/hud/heroportraits/portrait_axe
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file “resource/closecaption_english. txt”.
— Missing Vgui material vgui/hud/heroportraits/portrait_bane
— Missing Vgui material vgui/hud/heroportraits/portrait_pudge
— Missing Vgui material vgui/hud/heroportraits/portrait_earthshaker
Bind Key: cmd1 bind “`” “toggleconsole”
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file “resource/closecaption_english. txt”.
CGCClientJobUserSessionCreated::BYieldingRunJobFro mMsg firing event
CDOTAGCClientSystem – adding listener
Fetched 788462 bytes item schema version DBB98323 via HTTP; update is queued.
Applying new item schema, version DBB98323
Date query from 2012-01-22 15:02:16 to 2012-07-22 15:02:16
Browser Message: [cycle] 1 – img sl > StartWatchingGame request SteamID: [A:1:1765003266:3027], watching SteamID: [I:0:0]
Received CMsgWatchGameResponse result 0.
Received CMsgWatchGameResponse result 1.
StartWatchingGame: Sending console command: connect 103.10.124.115:28125
NET_GetBindAddresses found 123.202.234.57: ‘Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)’
Network: IP 123.202.234.57, mode MP, dedicated No
Port client = 27005
NotifyClientSignon: 1
Connecting to public(103.10.124.115:28125) .
0.039: Sending UDP connect to public IP 103.10.124.115:28125
NotifyClientSignon: 2
Connected to 103.10.124.115:28125

Server connection timed out.
NotifyClientSignon: 0

Thanks so much for reading this. I hope it can work soon.

Last edited by dpm; 07-25-2012 at 08:53 AM .