Winter patch issue.

So I downloaded the Winter patch earlier.. Loaded up the game, put in my login information, clicked Login. Nothing. It crashed. So I verified the files and tried again. Crashed. Tried once more. Crashed. Did they botch it up or something? Let me know if you have any idea what is going on.

Can you give more details? Exactly what happens when it crashes? Does it just lock up? Is there an error message? A sound loop?

It's working fine for me and there are huge crowds in Atlas Park.

I'm inclined to mentioned that after the winter event patch was installed on my system, I now am getting crazy lag when there was none the night before. I have 4gb of ram in my system and a pretty decent video card that runs smoothly and I can even run 3 other programs with no problems. Then right after the patch, the game is the only thing running and still lag. I even turned down my graphics and the same lag kicks in. It's getting seriously annoying as I want to play and I cant.

I don't get the status bar when I open presents. I have to wathc my chat window to see what's going on.

Not sure if this applies here, but the game crashed while I was using Pocket D tp'r from Wentworths. Here is the message I received.
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Assertion failed

Program: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Sun Dec 20 10:56:09 AM
Process ID: 468
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

Same error on my PC:

Assertion failed

Program: ...s\City of Heroes and Villains\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Sun Dec 20 08:18:58 PM
Process ID: 300
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

Same thing here. I was just standing in WW on Virtue and then poof. It's also randomly happened while running through Atlas Park.

Haven't had any issues until the Winter Event Patch. I seem to crash at least once a day now. Either the game totally stops responding from just standing or when I try loading into Lord Winter's Realm.


Assertion failed

Program: ...am Files (x86)\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Wed Dec 23 12:55:02 AM
Process ID: 5264
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

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I have my settings as low as they can go, and I still get major lag during combat. ANY time ANY attack hits, I freeze, with the length of time of the freeze determined by how many attacks hit, and how many foes were hit. If there are enough of them, I will crash.

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