Duneman

Originally Posted by DrGemini

Over the past few weeks, I have been noticing a general "clueless" air among the people who join in on the various league-size events that we have been doing. People do not seem to have a basic understanding of goals/objectives of an event/trial. And, I think a large part of it is that those of us who do know what to do are not taking the time to explain things before the chaos sets in (and people get mad because some people are not just falling in place).

So, I'd like to see us start doing what we can to make people aware of the general expectations of all these special events/raids/trials. Perhaps we can start scheduling some "tours" to simply allow people an opportunity to learn in a no-pressure setting.

The kinds of things that come to mind to start with would be: Hamidon Raids, Mothership Raids, and all 4 of the new Incarnate trials. We could, of course, expand it to include other aspects of the game (seeing as we are/will get an influx of new/returning players). I do see that a few people have already done (or are doing) casual learning runs and I'd like to see us do more of that.

Keep in mind that only a small minority of the community uses these forums. So, this will be aimed at reaching as many as we can. And, in the process, perhaps we can encourage them to make use of the forums to enhance their knowledge of the game.

Originally Posted by Kotchie

starting at 3 pm est until my eyes bleed

Originally Posted by Kotchie

I will be running this tonight for badges if you want to join in. It's not hard (I am 5-1)

Its VERY tedious...but it is not hard if you bring Clarions

Originally Posted by Morgan Reed

I just wrote this up for someone the other day.

Use this post. if no one points you to a better one.

Originally Posted by GLovez

First of all thanks alot for the fast replies people! Really appreciated!!

Ok so I said I had updated display adapter/ graphics drivers And it Does say I am up to date. But when I go to device manager, right clik on my graphs card go to properties and then driver, it says Driver Version: 8.850.0.0

Duneman I now ask your help on how I would manually update my driver version to 11.2, if you say you have no problems on tht version..?

Thanks again all!!

Originally Posted by Raelina27

I didn't see anywhere more appropriate to put this, so if it's in the wrong place I am sorry.

The main site is loading very oddly for me. The news and such is usually centered, but is now all bunched up on the left side of the screen, and the left side menu (News, Community, etc) isn't working. When I click an option the arrow shifts to point down like normal, but the sub menu never appears. (The Going Rogue option works, but then it's a link to another page no a sub menu.)

It was working fine last night. Any ideas on a setting or such that might have gotten changed in my browser to cause this? Or anyone else seeing the same thing? I've reloaded the site a couple of times, restarted the browser, and restarted the computer; none of those has helped. (I'm using IE 9 by the way.)

Thanks for any help!

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

For the last few weeks this game has done almost everything possible to make me not want to play.

First problem: I crash on loading redside. ALL THE TIME. It actually started about two months ago, when I would try to load a zone, the bar would get to half and I would crash to the log-in screen. Usually it happened with St. Martial or Grandville. I updated my graphics drivers and though it was fixed, but a few weeks ago there was a patch and now it's worse. I've just tried about five times to load up a Blaster parked in Port Oakes. It hasn't happened blueside....yet.

Second problem: Network lag. Started a few weeks ago. Comes and goes. Buff icons come and go, powers aren't animating, enemies are jumping around, and my netgraph is a spiky red mess.

Third problem: The launcher. I can play fine all day, exit the game normally, no crashing, and the next time I try to launch it tells me I need to repair files. The beta client is even worse, I need up update and repair and update and repair over and over again before I can get in. I've also been intermittently unable to connect to the updater. Today it is especially horrible.

Fourth problem: The forums. I often get a "server not found" message when trying to access them, and today they are loading like molasses.

It looks like the network lag isn't just me, and someone forgot to feed the hamsters. But I haven't seen much about the crashes on loading and the launcher issues. What could be causing them?

Originally Posted by Mr E-Man

I know you are really talking about the Hannah Montana Complete Series Collection - you should be proud you are the president of the Miley Cyrus Fan Club!

Originally Posted by Myrdinn

33 deaths, 1:58:08. Yikes! Thanks to everyone who came out!

Originally Posted by Random_McEric

Exact same problem here. At first I was sure it was something on my end, maybe something eating up memory or bandwidth, but I couldn't pinpoint a culprit. At least now I know I'm not the only one and I can stop hunting.

The most frustrating bit for me is that if I die while soloing, clicking the Go to Hospital button is like Russian roulette. Could go to hospital, could go to login screen and have to start the mission over.

Also - and I suspect this is related somehow - it seems this bug happens to me 100% of the time when trying to join a Lambda. I have been completely unable to get past the loading screen for the Lambda trial, and every time I get back in and try to rejoin using the LFG tool it just crashes me to login again.

Originally Posted by Global_DJB

Okay, bear with me a moment here; the tl;dr is I am reasonably sure that a login server was changed a couple of nights ago.

I knew the servers were up, I knew I had friends logged in. I knew that there were a small number of people having issues but most could get in. So I thought I'd double check some things and make sure it wasn't an ISP issue or something like that. As it was on two machines, I was certain that it wasn't a client issue on my end. I was reasonably sure that as I could access the Beta server it wasn't going to turn out to be an ISP issue.

On both machines, using the NCSoft Laucher, the CoH client was FULLY up to date and I was able to verify/repair the install on each machine no problem.

So I did some traces and watched the client as it tried to login. There was no response from the login server. So I grabbed the details, that I could, of the login server and found that I wasn't able to ping it at all. I jumped into my ISP's IRC chat and asked them to check. They had no joy at all but were reasonably confidently able to confirm that there were no issues on their end and they suspected a server issues.

As Support here had not answered yet, I figured I'd do a reinstall because what could it hurt? I didn't want to do a full download again but I wanted to make sure that the networking/connection files were reinstalled. So I copied the coh.exe and only that file to a new dir. I pointed the Launcher at it and asked it to repair. It started the whole patch process. I *cancelled* this process once it had built the directory structure and copied across the pigg directory meaning that the reinstall had to download less then 700 mb.

This went fine and I was really quite surprised that the new install logged in straight away. So I watched the login process again and this install was pointing/connection to a DIFFERENT login server.

So I have two installs on one machine - launcher says both are fully up to date and good to go... however each install is pointing at a different login server and only one works. I have the other machine next to me with the install that worked fine until Thursday and that won't connect at all. That's pointing at the non working sever.

Support have, conveniently, ignored any of the actual information I've given them and have done nothing but insist I run the Game Advisor. I have just done that - there's no info in there that I can see relating to the install/login server that the local CoH uses but we'll see what they come back with. When my ISP cannot ping the login server my client is pointed to, I can totally understand why my firewall or AV details are important


My tentative conclusion at the moment is that I, and perhaps others, do not have a fully up to date CoH client despite what the NCSoft Launcher says. I suspect strongly there was a server change during the hardware upgrade the other night and for whatever reason my installs did not receive the prep work for this in the earlier patches. I shall update if Support erm.. support.