corrupt pigg files

I've heard of a few people crashing due to this same problem (and I've had individual textures go black on me with message boxes); it's definitely something wrong with the game and not your setup.

NCsoft support is blissfully ignorant as usual and will send you down a roundabout path of disabling your antivirus software and whatever else they can think of, but the problem lies in the City of Heroes software.

I downloaded/use Defraggler. I like it a lot because it shows the files that are borked. After a patch/maintainance it's the CoH pigg files that are the worst. I have gotten into a habit of defragging before I enter the game, after a change. It seems to save me from mapserves and other problems some people are experiencing. See if this might work for you also.

eh, im not really worried about it so much. just thought id pass along the issue to the forumites.

after i re-verified he logged into the midnighters club just fine but i could see a huge difference in the FPS. the openGL crash hit me before i could guage the FPS numbers and see what the difference was. the FPS drop may have been related to the openGL issue but after that crash and relog the toon went from the midnighters club all the way back to talos with no issues.

LKN_351, are you still seeing the "Corrupt pig file" messages?

If so, can you try running with '-verify' in your command line arguments? In the Launcher, right-click on the game and select 'Properties' and put the '-verify' (no quotes) in the "Extra Command Line Parameters (Advanced)" box.

hadnt seen it since, although i hadnt played quite as often as usual since i posted this either.


and also, 1st FPARN ever lol :-)

Similar, but not the same.

id say its safe to assume that the verify command only does as it says it does and repair verifies and then does some other thing that my magic 8-ball doesnt want to tell me right now.

oh, and 2nd FPARN LOL
ok i think im done with that jazz

'-verify' happens at the beginning of the game.
'Repair (Check Consistency)' in the Launcher happens in the Launcher
'Verify All Files' happens in the old CohUpdater.

And yes, '-verify' just checks all of the files and does not attempt to fix them.

FPAWN?

i have gotten the currupt pigg file crash afew times but only during a BAF trial
and only if ive ran roughily 5 or 6

i use the nc soft launcher (if that info is of any use)
the old way of getting into game trys to verify crashs at a 704m

recentily ive been getting a new crash that says access level 33297 QA server click ok 2nd pop up apears saying something along the lines of servers outta alignment and im disconnected....sadily im always in a baf trial so im desperate to get back in

This happens to be the bug that crashes me about 90% of the time while running trials. Very seldom does it ever happen anywhere else other then while running a BAF or a Lambda.

I've received this bug a few times in the past week, the latest being last night, after clicking on one of the Vanguard Tailors. The Tailor screen appeared, but the skyline background was missing, so everything was dull grey. The error message looked like the skyline texture was missing, but everything was fine after a reboot (and no verify or repair was done).

ive gotten the random corrupt pigg file on about half a dozen different things

i have not tried doing a -verify yet, i did try a repair/consistency check once but it did not seem to help

when i am home later i will attempt to do a verify and repair again

I am encountering a similar problem:

./piggs/texGui2.pigg: Corrupt pig file detected
Read failed for file: texture_library/GUI/CREATION/common/Backgrounds/background_skyline_normal.texture
-1

Your data might be corrupt, please run the patcher and try again

Re-ran, fixed twice now ;-(

after doing a repair and verify it seems to only partially helped as it still seems to pop up now and then

the corrupt pigg files that usually cause my game to crash are any type of various character model pieces

some examples that popped up (nothing has popped up more than once):

• marauders gloves
• escapee boots
• random player chest emblems
• textures of some kind which appear on NPC/player models