And *this* is why I hate the Incarnate Trials.

Not being forced to team, not having to argue with people over dumb stuff, not having to suffer through lag or cutscenes or constant death.

No, it's the dreaded crash prompt that appears in nearly EVERY RAID I have participated in.

After trying to enjoy Keyes Reactor (but ultimately feeling largely worthless thanks to Stone Armor being a terrible, terrible powerset), our team got 2/3 of the way through only for that wonderful little box to pop up in the center of my screen.

I log back in and try to rejoin the event: Could not find instance. Either the entire raid just failed on a technical level, which is the return of a lovely, lovely crash from I20 launch, or I singularly just failed to rejoin for no clear reason.

Either way, I hate this. I can stubbornly suffer through the grind, but every single time my game crashes I find myself asking why I bother.

Edit: So apparently, upon catching the raid leader, the entire raid did not crash out, just me. And on top of that, despite being an open raid, they cannot reinvite me.

That makes TWO trial-breaking bugs, on top of whatever causes me to crash 99% of the time.

I think this is the first time, ever, that CoH has made me want to put my fist through the screen.

I understand your pain. I have the same issue as well. It seems the error that pops up for me when I crash is always different too, so I can't pinpoint the problem. Lambda trials are the worse for me. I crashed 3 for 3 on the last 3 Lambdas I ran. BAFs are much less frequent, but they do happen. And yeah, there's a post on the bugs board stating that the 'Rejoin Last Event' button is broken. So no trials for me til they fix that. I'll never manage to get an empyrean merit as long as that bug is there.

I have to ask what have you done to your system so far in an effort to correct the crashes? I believe that in all the trials I've run, I crashed once.

Drivers up to date? Defragged regulary? When was the last time your wiped your rig and rebuilt it from scratch? Verified that all components are staying cool?

I do realize that the rejoin from crash thing was broken with today's patch but if you're crashing every trial, when others aren't, shouldn't you be looking to your own rig for a resolution?

Hi there IantheM1,

We haven't been receiving large amounts of reports of the issues you're experiencing. We'll definitely keep an eye out, however I would most certainly recommend checking into the above referenced solutions if you haven't already. If you've got any specific details or other information which might be helpful, feel free to PM me with it and I can forward it along to dev.

Best

-Z

I used to crash during mothership raids a lot, until I lowered my graphics settings. Drop them to performance, or minimum if necessary.

What does the prompt say when you crash?

I just hate the waiting, sure some I can get in on straight away, others.. takes 3 times longer to form one than to do it. I will usually tab out and play something else while im waiting >.<

Lots of crashing and unable to rejoin and the raid is in fact in progress I'm told. Thing is broken me thinks. Strange no one is reporitng this on a large scale.

I bugged it.

-C.A.

You layed harder into Bill more than what he was implying. Hell, I know Bill runs a better rig than me and I've never crashed from a raid, including the fun message the game keeps saying I'm running old drivers when I'm sure I'm not.

What are the specs you guys that are crashing have?

Before I20 I only very occasionally got the sound loop crash. Sometimes I'd also get a loading screen crash. Neither of these were much trouble.

Since Issue 20, I've been getting new types of crashes. Others have mentioned them on the forums.

The first is the "out of memory crash" where a pigg file can't be assigned a place in memory. I get this in about 1 in 5 Lambda runs. Never in BAF. Very rarely anywhere else. The game freezes, I get sent to desktop and there is no error window for submitting a report.

The second is the deadly "FATAL ERROR" crash. I'm in a trial, suddenly everything freezes. I get dumped to desktop (with CoH still running in the background) and all I have is a black empty prompt window with "fatal error" as the title. The only way to recover is to go into task manager and end the CoH process, then restart the launcher. It takes a while for the game to reload.

These two errors have cost me roughly 10 salvage drops, since the first one tends to happen right near the end of a trial (when you are chasing Marauder around the four corners of Lambda). Last night, the second error happened right at the very end of my first ever Keyes attempt, which ruined my whole evening since the run was otherwise perfect and Anti-Matter was almost dead.

I then completed Keyes by moving my main to Virtue and putting together my own PuG league and leading it to a victory at 3am :P

I did get a crash playing on a Keyes trial today actually, and thats a first in like... a year? the game is very reliable to me , anyway, I put it down to my network card (i have moved and am on a 2nd hand wireless lan card! horrid i know), because I also dc'ed once while on the trial.

However, both times, I loaded back in , hit the re-join button and both times it worked. So im not willing to spill any DOOOM about it yet

I see it reported here too:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...wpost&t=264357

seems to only affect "open" ones