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Characters created before I22 keep crashing, new characters okay

Ael Rhiana

By Ael Rhiana,
Posted on: 2012-04-08 09:28 in Bug Report Forums

 

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Like the title says, if I try to play any character I made before the I22 release, CoX crashes, seemingly at random. These characters were not crashing before I22 came out. If I play any character I made after the I22 release, it doesn't crash.
Is anyone else having this problem?

This is infuriating beyond words. I might as well start everything over, since I can't play old characters.

I've posted about this in the Known Issues thread as well, but since it seems to be an I22 problem, I thought I'd post here too.

 

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Hmm no problem on my end sounds like something may be corrupted maybe try to repair from the NCsoft launcher.

 

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I agree that it sounds like something corrupt on your end. I can play characters that I created 6 years with no problems.

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I tried to repair from the NCSoft launcher. It didn't help.

I got a new computer just before I22 released, but I only made characters with it after I22, so it's hard to tell where the problem is. Given the responses I've gotten in this thread and others, the problem seems to be on my end of things.

I keep wondering if it has something to do with my old computer having Windows 7 32-bit and my new computer having 7 64-bit. I don't know why this would mess things up, but I'm going to try testing new computer characters on my old computer to see if they crash, and I'm going to make a new character on my old computer to see if it will crash on the new one. That should determine if it's an I22 problem or a computer problem, although I strongly suspect it's the latter.

 

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It could be your set of data files held on nc's servers that are corrupted and my need to be repaired on there end too.

 

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i would contact support with a description of the problem. Like Psygon_NA posted, there may be some corruption of your account data for older characters that needs to be repaired.

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Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
i would contact support with a description of the problem. Like Psygon_NA posted, there may be some corruption of your account data for older characters that needs to be repaired.
I may try that. I've been posting about this in another thread, here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=286163&page=3

I want to see what they say first. The results of the testing I did with my old computer vs. new computer are in that thread, but they seem to me to indicate that you're right, Schis.