Why does the game crash when accessing the Black Market or WW?

When I first login, if I go to the market or WW, I have no problems. It takes awhile to bring everything up, but I don't crash. If I go do some missions however, and then come back to the market, it will crash. Every single time.

Why is this? Can't this be fixed? I know some people don't have this problem, but I've spoken to and heard of many people having the same problem. It's been like this for as long as I can remember playing with the market too.

Is a fix in the works? Is this a known bug? I'm on Virtue by the way.

I've only had this issue since i16 launched. WW/BM has always taken a while for me to load (I chalked that up to me having an older set of hardware), but it almost NEVER caused a mapserve and caused me to jump to the log-in screen like it is now.

It is very annoying.

::( <-- Sad Spider

My guess is that you are low on system resources, especially RAM.

Entering WW requires a lot of information send to your computer, and you seem to be able to handle it before doing missions, but afterwards those are taking up some memory as well, and therefore, when entering WW, you might crash.

You can try to type /reloadgfx before entering WW. That will clear your buffers.

If that doesn't work, or even if it does, I recommend posting a CoH Helper report. That will tell about your system configuration, and people will better be able to help you.

Actually there isn't a lot of data, relatively speaking, that is sent from the server to the client when you bring up the market interface. The market interface itself loads an enormous amount of data from your hard drive, the description and icon of every recipe, salvage, inspiration that is in or ever been in the game.

Worst case solution. Exit and restart the game from the market and access it first thing.

I used to bomb out of the market every so often on my old computer, which had quite a bit less RAM than my new one.

Yeah, RAM does seem to make a difference. I access COH from a laptop, and that always takes a bit to load there (heck, COH crashes if I play on that laptop for too long). My old tower was faster than that laptop, and the newer, much faster tower I built in January boots it right up unless the server itself is being slow.