'A socket error occurred' on startup in 4.9.2

If you are running client and server at the same time the live update won’t be able to create a socket for live update. If you don’t have a separate client/server, you might still get the error if some other program is holding on to the same port that FMOD tries to use.

There are a few things you can do:

  • Disable live update in the settings
  • Add -noliveupdate or -nosound to the command line to disable either live update or the entire sound system.
  • If the server is dedicated, it should already be running with the equivalent of -nosound so that should just work.
  • You can tweak whether live update is enabled by changing ini files manually, for example if you are already changing ini file settings by hand.
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