Tunneled mode affects connectivity of untunneled apps

[funuraba993-prog]

Operating system

Windows

System version

Windows 11 25H2 26200.8457

Installation type

exe

Version

1.1.5

Description

Hello!

I'm not so tech-savy so please forgive me my lack of knowledge, but anyway. I use Tun Mode and tunnel a bunch of programs, you'll see in the profile, and only these apps are supposed to be under VPN. But when I do, other programs, games to be precise, that are supposed to connect to the internet without tunneling have faulty connection. The two examples I have is the game War Thunder which has no issues authorizing on start, but can't connect to the match-making server until I stop the VPN, then after 10-15 seconds it connects, and then I start VPN again and everything works until I restart the game again. And Escape From Tarkov the launcher of which has things missing will also get frequent connection errors when in game until I disable VPN.

As I said I do have "Tun Mode" enabled, and in the "Tun Settings", I have stack set to "system", "Strict Route" and "Enable Tun Routing*"(doesn't seem to affect anything in my case) are also enabled.

I don't know if this info helps but I also tried a fork of wireguard client called tunnlto, which allows tunneling, and everything works there just fine with the same routing. Unfortunately now it's fairly useless here in Russia as it only supports the old WG protocol.

Routing profile

[{
    "action": "hijack-dns",
    "protocol": "dns"
}
,{
    "action": "route",
    "outbound": "proxy",
    "process_name": [
        "Spotify.exe",
        "Telegram.exe",
        "chrome.exe",
        "Discord.exe",
        "obs-browser-page.exe",
        "chatterino.exe",
        "Update.exe",
        "StreamDeck.exe",
        "AxelChat.exe"
    ]
}
]

Default outbound

direct

URL list

Sorry, but the issue lies within games :(

[funuraba993-prog]

PS: I forgot to specify that it doesn't matter how many programs or which program I tunnel, the issue still persists

[Mahdi-zarei]

Could you pleases take a look at the connections tab and see if the game's connection is using the direct outbound or not?

[funuraba993-prog]

Could you pleases take a look at the connections tab and see if the game's connection is using the direct outbound or not?

Yes, the games' processes say "direct" in the outbound column, only the tunneled processes say "proxy"

[Mahdi-zarei]

Then that means the routing is working as expected. I think you may have tunneled a related process while leaving another one out (for example tunneling steam, while leaving csgo out etc)

[funuraba993-prog]

Then that means the routing is working as expected. I think you may have tunneled a related process while leaving another one out (for example tunneling steam, while leaving csgo out etc)

None of the games I talk about in the post are using steam, all stand alone. And I also tried to just tunnel one single app like Telegram or Chrome or Discord, and the issue persisted. And as I also said I tried to replicate the situation with the WG client TunnlTo and the tunnel happened with no issues caused in other non-tunneled apps.

[raregod4]

Same! I get lag spikes in Overwatch throughout games that last like 1-2 seconds, and the game shows 300-400 latency. I tested throne with only discord tunneled and the issue persists. Yesterday I updated to 1.1.6 and everything went smoothly, today it lags again. Would like to hear any suggestions, which is really weird. I haven't gotten this issue in nekobox btw, and I'm only noticing this in OW out of all online games