Connection failed due to game authentication

What is the issue you’re having?

error ID au_4zfernb26qw51_bkxu8__
It tells me “Couldn’t establish a game authentication session, please restart your game or try again later.
If the issue persists, check our status page.”
when i look as said status page, there is zero down time of the webhosting services

What have you tried already to fix the issue?

Restarted client x4, restarted PC x1, logged out of CFX-FiveM link, tried searching the error code and got zero results

What server did you get this issue on?

All

Error screenshot(s)


Windows version

Windows 11

System specifications

Intel Core I5-14600KF
ASRock Z790 PRO RS mobo
TEAMGROUP T-Create Expert 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 ram
Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME SSD
Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

Antivirus software

N/A

Additional comments

Nothing relating to my internet or game files have changed. There has been no mods installed, there has been no firewall changes, i was able to connect w/o issue two days ago

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Hey bro did you get a fix? i have been having this same issue for the past week :frowning:

no? i posted this last night, you’re the first reply. however it has fixed itself somehow

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I’ve got the same thing

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DAM LUCKY YOU!
Still no luck for me :frowning:

got the same thing here

Still got this problem anyone got a fix thanks

ive tried everything nothing works ! i have no idea what to try again :frowning: going on a week now its not working!!!

bumping this. similar issue but i get “failure to authenticate game session”. if anybody knows a fix id be appreciative.

I still have found only one solution when the error occurs. Restarting the game server. It has happened to me now 4 more times since I put this post up.