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Randomly stuck at parsing game info
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On random days of the week, sometimes its Monday, sometimes Wednesday (like today), sometimes not at all, when I try to connect to a server I am stuck at "Parsing game info" and the progress bar doesn't go past 3 bars in every Steam game. At any time I can click cancel, so the game does not freeze. It happens on random times of the day, it happens on every internet connection I tried. It happens when I'm in my hometown flat where I live with parents, it happens in my flat in the city where I study where I live alone and only I use the internet. It doesn't matter whether I am connected through wi-fi or Ethernet cable. I can't connect to the game servers (even though I see them in the server browser, damn, I can even queue matchmaking, find a game but just can't connect to a server) for like 2-3hours and then everything works for perfectly for the next couple of days/weeks. I tried every single suggestion I found on Steam forums, including reinstalling the game, restarting computer, router, steam, verifying game cache, replacing Masterservers.vdf files.

Has ANYONE ever experience such thing? What more can I do? It's been stuck now for at least 2 hours. It's frustrating because it usually happens in the evening, when I want to play lobbies which fill faster then, or some wacky servers like DM or 100% crits.

[edit] Another thing I noticed is that when it happens, everyone on matchmaking ranking list has default rank 1. Funnily though, drop system works. I just found an item even though I didn't play for past 3 hours at all.

On random days of the week, sometimes its Monday, sometimes Wednesday (like today), sometimes not at all, when I try to connect to a server I am stuck at "Parsing game info" and the progress bar doesn't go past 3 bars in every Steam game. At any time I can click cancel, so the game does not freeze. It happens on random times of the day, it happens on every internet connection I tried. It happens when I'm in my hometown flat where I live with parents, it happens in my flat in the city where I study where I live alone and only I use the internet. It doesn't matter whether I am connected through wi-fi or Ethernet cable. I can't connect to the game servers (even though I see them in the server browser, damn, I can even queue matchmaking, find a game but just can't connect to a server) for like 2-3hours and then everything works for perfectly for the next couple of days/weeks. I tried every single suggestion I found on Steam forums, including reinstalling the game, restarting computer, router, steam, verifying game cache, replacing Masterservers.vdf files.

Has ANYONE ever experience such thing? What more can I do? It's been stuck now for at least 2 hours. It's frustrating because it usually happens in the evening, when I want to play lobbies which fill faster then, or some wacky servers like DM or 100% crits.

[edit] Another thing I noticed is that when it happens, everyone on matchmaking ranking list has default rank 1. Funnily though, drop system works. I just found an item even though I didn't play for past 3 hours at all.
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try lowering server browser pings per minute in steam settings (in-game tab)

try lowering server browser pings per minute in steam settings (in-game tab)
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