Constant Map Server Disconnects

Ok, where I'm seeing it universally is to and from pocket d and ouroboros.

5:15 CST and I've now started seeing the same problems, blueside. Mapserved earlier....and now two dc's in a row trying to zone into game.

You can add me to the list - Its happened a dozen times today entering missions, exiting missions, going from zone to zone. Its happened solo and in teams.

Basically, I'll wait for the hotfix / patch before I log in again. Sadly, very unplayable.

Something else I'm seeing. Every time I'm mapserved I have serious lag loading the forums. Any other website pops right up but the forums take a long time to load or actually time out. Once I do get them to load though there is no further delay. And the lag only happens after a mapserve.

OK here's my problem, ever since the latest patch Iv'e been Dc'ing like crazy so I lowered my graphics now im ok.

I lowered my Graphics:
Particle Physics Quality.(same) HIgh
World Texture Quality.(Was on Very High) High
Character Texture Quality.(Was on Very High) High

When I was Dc'ing every 30 secs I was on Justice with the toon:Psy Fighter, (Ice/Psy Dominator). I was in a ITF in Cimerora.


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Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
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Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 274454 bytes/second
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Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

Zoning out of a mission in Talos, into the hospital.. (damn).
I have been getting mapserves since after the 16th patch as well.

Win 7 64 bit
6GB ram
GeForce GTX 260

still getting the disconnect bug whenever i try to zone anywhere. gotten it half a dozen times in the last hour. i don't think it's my PC, but here you go:

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Mod files in the Data directory
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.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\NewPlayerTutorial has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 40 files
.\texture_library\P_MAPS has 2 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\City has 2 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files

noticed that too, the forums are taking a reallllly long time whenever I get the mapserve error. Like, it took it a couple of minutes to refresh this page just now. All of the other tabs in my browser were working fine...

To add another opinion on the forums being laggy, I had no issues with it when I was experiencing my map/crash problems...lucky I guess?

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~ The Earthguard ~

Just to add a bit to my earlier experience:

I've been continuing to have problems logging into the game as well as zoning. Just now I hit the sign in screen, logged in - the game hung for a bit, then popped the unable to connect to coh servers message. Tried again, connected no problem. Then I clicked to log into Justice server - again the game hung, this time indefinitely. Killed CoH with task manager, opened again. Was able to log into game and server. Entered game as character, went to Oruborus, tried to go to Grandville, stuck at loading indefinitely. Had to kill CoH with task manager again.

Usually when I load a new zone, the loading screen very briefly shows one picture and a loading bar, but then quickly switches to a new picture and a loading bar that actually progresses. When I fail to load a new zone, I basically stay at the first screen forever with the loading bar stuck at the tiniest fraction complete.

I've gotten this at least a half dozen times tonight too. On both accounts, on Infinity as well as Virtue. I will try to zone (mission, base, tram) and get to the loading screen, which eventually kicks me back to a shot of my character with a 'noMapserver connection.' message. Quitting to character select takes me to the blue screen with clouds. Quitting to desktop does work.

When I try to log back in, I'm told that I'm already logged in (this happened even after a few minutes of doing other things).

edit: hmm, interesting. I was mapserved this last time trying to tram from Atlas to Steel, and upon reconnecting I was indeed in Steel.

Addendum - I did a hard reboot, and things worked for awhile.. until...

I opened up Mids between task force missions. when i tried to get into the next task force mish - BOOT.

also, after that teh NCSoft Launcher became unresponsive as well.

me = very unhappy brute. :/

Let us see what today holds!

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~ The Earthguard ~

Still no luck here. Tried to log in, timed out. Tried again, it said I already was logged in. Logged in a third time, clicked on server, hung indefinitely. Killed CoH from taskmanager. Decided that, if my luck zoning was going to be equally spotty, I should just wait for a patch. Probably won't try again until Tuesday.

UPDATE:

I played all last night with no changes to my game settings or my PC from when it was locking up the night before. I played the same characters in the same zones and I had no problems whatsoever. I did talk to several friends in-game that weren't experiencing the problem before, but they are experiencing it now.

I'll update again if anything changes tonight. Good luck everyone!

I had no issues yesterday while playing, haven't gone on today as of yet but feeling very lucky that it has been behaving so well for me!

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~ The Earthguard ~

Any word on the status of this bug? I have pretty much stopped playing the game, 'cause the random mapserves upon zoning and then locking up is danged annoying, especially when it occurs while I'm leading a trial.

No changes on my PC at all, not even virus updates since I started this thread, and all of a sudden everything is fine again. For me anyway.

Since it is hitting both AMD and nvidia users....

Well dance in front of the computer with a rubber chicken! I hear that fixes things....

I have a friend with the exact same computer build as mine and yep he gets these. (Yes, he's on the same drivers)

For all we know its a windows update.

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Originally Posted by Meowtch Mandu, the problem is that I map/crashed several times in one day just zoning in/out of mishes as well as simply taking the tram so unfortunately, it is not just PD and ouro. On the bright side for me at least, it is now 6pm Eastern and I have been logged in since 12 noon with no map/crashes at all, just as I had none last night. It was almost like this was a 48 hour flu for my CoH considering I had a terrible issue with it for 2 days and now nothing...I've also gone ahead and turned my graphics back up for about 3 hours and no issue at all! If I do experience additional problems though, I will post it but so far so good and I've played the same SS/Fire brute as well as two redside toons for a bit and no problems. On the bad side, a friend has now begun to have the issue as well even though he was fine up to this point. No rhyme, no reason that I can see in this!

I've played a couple of days in a row with no problems now. Don't know if anything has changed or if I've just been getting lucky, or maybe playing at different times? Who knows..

Im getting fatal errors and the game is crashing. First 2 times I couldnt read what the error was (the error window was blank). The last time it happened there was a PIGG file error. I remember having the same problem months ago and deleting the PIGG file and having the game reinstall it worked. Will try.

Also my load times are much slower than normal. As is loading up the character select screen.

Edit: Deleting the PIGG folder and then repairing the game seems to have helped a little with load times. But still seems a little slow.

Assuming you're not playing from an SSD, try defragmenting the drive. The game updates cause terrible file fragmentation.