Game crashes - not loading - redirected.

aipotu66

Seems like game stability is at a total meltdown today. Logging in is close to impossible. switching toons likewise. Actually...NOTHING WORKS. only me??

cerberusxll

no. it's affecting me as well

baronvonboom

Here as well, managed to log onto an alt for invoke etc but since then every other toon hangs on the PE loading screen.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K methinks

zebular

I don't see any issues at present. I am logged in just fine and I see quite a lot of people in game seeming unaffected. Perhaps there's some network outages between some players and the game servers. Down Detector is showing a lot of large areas of Comcast Servers and AT&T Servers being down, this could cause issues as people are routed through other networks.

cerberusxll

zebular said:

I don't see any issues at present. I am logged in just fine and I see quite a lot of people in game seeming unaffected. Perhaps there's some network outages between some players and the game servers. Down Detector is showing a lot of large areas of Comcast Servers and AT&T Servers being down, this could cause issues as people are routed through other networks.

once logged in, it's not that problematic, it's when switching characters

minotaur2857

Indeed, it's the initial logging in and synching up. One of my US guildies said that all our European players were really struggling, even thought the rest of the net was working fine for them including other US websites.

ilmenira

same here in central europe ... constantly redirected when switching toons, then back to log in page ... and hanging entry screens as well.

minotaur2857

One thing I have noticed, the main problem is with my chars in Chult, 1500 ping if I can log them in at all there, took over a minute for moonstone mask TP to actually activate, once out of there, ping <10% of that and no further issues.

jiubiizeekk

In new zealand super high ping too. Everything else working fine.

jumpingmorks

baronvonboom said:

Here as well, managed to log onto an alt for invoke etc but since then every other toon hangs on the PE loading screen.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K methinks

This has been happening to me since around Xmas, I was having to use Linux then so blamed it on Linux but since Cryptic removed the choice in options for Low/High Quality lightning I was forced to go back to windows because without the option of choosing Low Qaulity Lightning the game is unplayable on Linux. Armor, Mounts and many graphical effects are just invisible on Linux on preset High Quality Lightning. However I am digressing.

Whenever the name of the area I am loading appears in the top right of the screen, but the picture of the area does not, I know the game has frozen. Sometimes it does not happen all day, sometimes it happens every other character change.

A workaround suggested by an alliance member was to keep my ALTS inside Driftwood Tavern. This has helped reduce the amount of times the game freezes on load immensely. When frozen the cursor is still visible, but I cannot use the minimise button top right.

Very, very occasionally, the picture for that area will begin the fade load, then stop, it's frozen once more. This happens with dungeons too, though not as frequently as say when my characters are not parked inside Driftwood Tavern in PE, or travel to Dread Ring or Sharandar.

I cannot actually recall a single time the game has frozen on a load screen when loading WoD or SH. Likewise, the Summerfest map never froze for me at all.

So safe areas I know of,

Driftwood Tavern inside PE, PE itself is not safe. SH Map seems pretty safe, WoD also seems safe.

One thing that has changed since Chult Mod release, the game no longer super lags for 2 minutes when I first load the game. This was super infuriating when the game froze on eToS loading screen and all I wanted to do was catch up with the rest of the team.

EDIT:
Mantol Derith also appears to be a safe area, it's never frozen on loading that map either.