Test server acting weird, crashing on startup
By
EvilRyu,
Posted on: 2009-06-10 06:06 in The Global Training Room Test Server
Yes, lots of people.
It seems like yesterday's patch is just randomly destroying lots of game files, including .pigg files. The problem doesn't seem to be the same for everyone, and the fixes that work for some people aren't working for everyone.
Easy fix. Delete stuff in CoHtest folder. Copy Coh Live stuff into CoHtest folder. Delete checksum file and patch update file. Run the test server updater, wait 45 min to 1 hour for it to fix files and you are back in business. Just be sure to watch the piggs folder, watch to see if its deleting files. If the number files starts to go down then you know its not going to work and you might have to do it over.
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Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
But then what's the story with the patch that downloaded today?
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.
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But then what's the story with the patch that downloaded today?
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It was trying to fix the destruction caused by downloading the patch yesterday. Some people, even when they get on the first time, find that they can't get on a second time because of missing files.
There was no new patch today. It was merely attempting to fix missing game files.
So I log onto test this morning, intending to try out the Dominator changes. It starts downloading a patch, which is weird because I'm not seeing any mention of a patch on the forums and I already downloaded the 6/9 patch yesterday. It finishes up and I log into my Dominator, who is in the Rikti War Zone. I run to Borea to grab a mission, and she tells me that she doesn't talk to villains. Buh? After letting that sink in, I check the other RWZ contacts, and they all say the same thing; "Sorry <name>, I don't talk to villains." I figure this must be a bug with the new patch, so I /bug it, and close the test server.
what where you doing?" window. I start up the test updater again, it verifies, and I try again, same thing, immediate crash. At this point, I delete the piggs folder in the Test install folder and copy the .piggs from the Live folder. The updater naturally "fixes" them, then again starts fixing this strange "tempfile." After it finally finishes, I try again, and yup, still crashing on startup. Anyone else experiencing this?
I log onto live, figuring I'll test the extents of this weird bug. I grab a mission from Borea on that same Dom, then queue him up to copy for test, and start up the test updater. It spends a few minutes fixing a file called "tempfile," then when it says it's ready I start up CoH, only to be immediately greeted with the "CoH crashed
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.