Oh NC Launcher, why must we fight?

So lately, I have been clicking my trusty COH icon and the NC Launcher will activate and then open the little Launching Game window. Then it just stops there until I force a close from the task manager. When I click on it a second time, it'll work just fine. Is anyone else having this issue or is it just my karma justifiably coming to get me?

1) What else is running?
2) When's the last time you defraged that HDD?
3) You said Force-Quit, are you using a Fruit PC? ;-)
5) Play or Play Not, there is no 4.

Can the launcher be uninstalled and reinstalled without losing nad having to reinstall CoH, or are the hopelessly intermingled? If they aren't intermingled, I'd might try that.

Or maybe just bad karma.

I have the same situation happening on a brand new Lenovo running Windows 7. The only time I have the lockout happen is if I have already started the NCLauncher prior.

Scenario: I get up in the morning and turn on my pc. I click on the CoH icon and the NCLauncher starts and CoH loads in the background (I do not have to click "Play"). I log out and shutdown CoH. A few hours later I want to play again and I click on CoH, this time the NC Launcher stalls mid load and then CoH shows in Task Manager as "Not Responding". In order to prevent this scenario from happening I have to shut down the NCLauncher Icon in the tool bar on the bottom right of the screen. Then it loads normally if you want to call that normal.

All my drivers are up to date, my pc is decked out even plays 3-D with glasses from Nvidia. I have re-installed CoH over and over and still the problem persists. So I just close out the NCLauncher each time I log out of CoH, a little annoying, but way faster than shutting it all down via Task Manager.

Best regards,
Gangland

The NCSoft Launcher has an option in one of its menus to auto-close itself after launching a game. Try turning that on - it helped me a bit.

Been having that too, sometimes when I want to re-open the launcher via the tray icon, I'll only get a "blank" window I have to force close.

Started to troobleshoot this with customer support, but when it got to the step "disable everything at startup" to see if it was conflicting with any other program, I gave up because it was much more trouble than just having to force close it to restart it.

However Black Pebble, I do seem to recall it only does it after I have played and quit COH, and therefore with the launcher running in the background while the game runs.

I never click the CoH icon anymore, just the NCLauncher icon. Then when it comes up I choose CoH, Live Test or Beta, depending on which one I want.

I have it set to auto exit everytime the game launches.

I never have had any problem as described in the OP, and I'm still running Vista Home Edition.

I'll give that launcher trick a try- force-quitting every other time I want to play is getting OLD.

I have to end program the first time I launch it, and it opens fine the second time. This happens every time, thought it was just my problem. It's not really an inconvenience though as i am used to it by now.

Setting it to close after I exit COH seems to work. Still an odd thing, though.

I have the exact same issue. I have to quit out through task manager every time I play. This has only started happening after I turned the NCSoft Launcher to close after running and then changing it back. Turning it back to closing after launching has fixed the issue.

I've never had this problem on my computer, but my friend does. Every time I've played on his computer I've had to force close with taskmanager on the first attempt and then it works fine the 2nd try, exactly like others are reporting here.

I thought he did have it set to auto close the launcher, but I'll check.

I've encountered the launcher not responding after CoH has been played on all my computers. I have to force it to close then reopen it.

Might as well not have the option to minimize to tray...