I know this is more of a general discussion community and not for tech support, but I’m at the end of my technical ability here and that is the primary game I play.

I’ve been running the live version of EverQuest for months now. Yesterday, I encountered a really strange issue where if I connect to the game, DNS would completely fail. I’ve tried this over 2 distros: Garuda (Arch based) and Linux Mint. I’ve done a few 50+ gb Steam downloads as tests with no issues. However, as soon as I run the game for more than 10 minutes, DNS just completel drops until a full reboot (on both distros) which is really odd. It’s only affecting the PC, which is what lead me to attempting to load up another distro and test things.

I’ve changed DNS servers around on all but the router (which I unfortunately don’t have ready access to). I know the software firewall rules are good. Is there a way to reliably see if for some reason the router is kicking me off if I use UDP packets (I know that EverQuest uses some)?

During the DNS outage, I an use the same network on mobile without any kind of issue, which is what made me curious if this is a UDP issue since web browsing shouldn’t be spraying those out.

I’d be more than willing to provide any pastes of files etc. Also, if anyone has a way to kind of stress test my wifi hardware to see if that is the issue, it’d be really helpful.

Editing to add: I’ve turned wifi power saving off and will continue to test. Odd that it would be turned on over 2 installs randomly, though (if it was ever off)

Adding again. This may be happening when I swap to the dedicated GPU on the laptop. The odd thing is that it started yesterday. This is why I turned off wifi power saving, and it doesn’t seem to have an effect.