no its not changing, it just binds itself to wrong nic. But if i check ipconfig /all i have 2 prefered nics (not sure if i can change that) the vmware one and my real nic. If it takes the vmware one registering the simulator won't work, nor will refreshing games list etc.
I created the video to show the problem first by letting the vmware nic enable, notice the ip addresses i show in settings -> device info it's the one from the vmware nic when it's enabled and it will fail on everything network related inside the simulator. However if i disable the vmware nic (as a workaround) it takes the correct NIC and show ip from my internet / connection to router and everything connection wise works fine inside the simulator.
I'm still checking to see if i can maybe somehow remove the prefered flag from the vmware nic but i'm not sure we can control that.
Also notice sometimes settings -> device info does not show ip adress immediatly only when explictly connecting to the fake wifi it will pick up the ip address there. If i don't do this the simulator will also hang and not show there has been a problem registering the simulator and i have to kill the simulator (not shown in video but can show example video as well if you like)
Here's the video:
Animotica_13_3_21_49_43.mp4.zip (9.2 MB)