I'm starting to seriously doubt the competency of the devs. These problems are so widespread that their attempts to fix the problem serve only to make the problems worse. And the devs get paid for this?
LOLS
possibilitiesare a thing of hope,sometimes it drives us toward something better
PWE needs to fire all of the Cryptic developers. Cryptic has these graphics card crashes with every major update. Just when are they going to stop playing these games? We want an MMO game that actually works. Not one that remains as a pretty icon on our desktop.
The Star Trek Online desktop icon is like this practical joke that sits on my PC, constantly laughing at me because the devs keep crashing the launcher.
possibilitiesare a thing of hope,sometimes it drives us toward something better
My client continues to crash to desktop after the Oct. 16 patch.
I have force verified the files and the game continues to crash on the Cryptic screen. Unlike a normal launch, there is no progress bar on the Cryptic screen and after 3-4 minutes the game crashes to desktop. I have tried everything suggested including launching in safe mode and compatibility mode. I have done this on both Holodeck and Tribble server but the game crashes on both servers. I have never received a crash code, which is always populated with Unknown.
Coincidentally, ARC Launcher is also failing now. At first, it was having trouble connecting to the Account server, but now ARC just crashes as soon as it is launched. Repair ARC does not work either.
I have documented all in another Thread titled Unable to Launch game
I have also opened up a support ticket, but I am still waiting for a constructive response.
This will probably take a while. We are always last on the list of things to get fixed. The last expansion that came out LoR it took almost 2 months too get fixed. Better get used to the fact that this could be a very long wait.
It's not graphics card related. I'm running an Atom based processor on a Netbook with Windows XP and 1 gig of RAM (yep, it's always been laggy as hell so accordingly I don't combat).
Now STO has been working fine, well, as fine as would be expected considering the antiquity of the machine I am running, but I just pop on every once in a while just for ideas and concepts for my own development project.
The project is a 'real life' holodeck, based around Star Trek fiction. Crazy (and fun) development and research. Development is on this Windows XP system running the Atom processor leveraging Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual C++ with .net framework 1.5/2,0. Old school, but that's me, old school. I like coding with Visual Basic - makes dev fun for me - and the development like this with limited resources reinforces the elegant and careful approach and doesn't demand the latest and greatest in technological advancement which invariably seems to be causing more problems than it cures.
Case in point: STO's lag and crashes.
That, and I'm homeless and can't afford a top of the line computer!
so the game can at least be played in safe mode but other then safe mode still loading screen TRIBBLE. that sucks. has anyone reported this to perfectworld and cryptic? have they at least acknowledged that it is a known issue?
so the game can at least be played in safe mode but other then safe mode still loading screen TRIBBLE. that sucks. has anyone reported this to perfectworld and cryptic? have they at least acknowledged that it is a known issue?
Yea they have been told. We will be lucky to get a we are working on it response from em. Let alone anything useful. Oh yea they might tell us "It's not the game its your computer that doesnt meet the requirements." We have gotten this a number of times in the past.
I'm getting the same thing; crash to desktop from DR screen, after that weird flash of a bluescreen. The "support" I got so far was "send us your PC info", "the patch fixed this" (NO IT DID NOT), "change your graphic settings IN GAME" and now "run a tracert and send the log"... executing the command opens a window for ~10 seconds, then closes without finishing and without letting me copy anything (clicking in it also closes it).
I get the same error codes others have posted, and what I haven't seen so far: I don't have to click "engage", it auto-starts the game now. This is since the patch, but of course it still crashes all the same. Updated drivers, tried all combos of proxy/no proxy/safe mode/patch on demand/...
Lol that thread exploded. I had my eyes glued to every post in there. I loved how we came up with the order of persistence. That kept me going while I was suffering withdrawals symptoms.
We are "The Forgotten Ones" The expansion came out Tuesday. We heard ONCE from someone and they haven't been back since. Not even a courtesy, we are working on things and will have you taken care of as soon as possible, nothing, nada, zilch.
That's what you call the generic reply from Cryptic. It's basically an automated recording which actually means "we're tired of you guys whining so shut the hell up".
possibilitiesare a thing of hope,sometimes it drives us toward something better
This is much worse because Cryptic's annual Christmas event starts in a few weeks with the new Breen giveaway ship.
Im set for that to go. I ground three characters through that last year. One for the Chel Gret One for the Plesh Brek, and the third for whatever ship comes this year. And with the discounts applied to them I'm good, as long as I get Two days in there.
That's what you call the generic reply from Cryptic. It's basically an automated recording which actually means "we're tired of you guys whining so shut the hell up".
Exactly.
I just spotted Brandon and invited him to say hello here. Please don't bite.
yeah its just not having a bar of it ive been trying since yesterday afternoon, and again ive been trying since 8am (GMT) looks like this is going to carry on over the weekend if the first patch is anything to go by
Uninstalled video drivers
Uninstalled video card
Deleted direct x 11
Booted in windows safe mode
Reinstalled everything
Booted normally
Game works
Go figure
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for me it patched to 69 percent then stopped
Erorr Ticket ID: 35705665
ATI Radeon 9600
I don't even get an error message, the error reporter just hangs forever!
I also have to restart computer to even be able to open the launcher again!
Even tried ARC, no joy in that either!
LOLS
just like the Legacy of Romulus crash.
Error 34310034
last one took a week to finish. These guys have known about it for 7 weeks at the very least.
The Star Trek Online desktop icon is like this practical joke that sits on my PC, constantly laughing at me because the devs keep crashing the launcher.
I have force verified the files and the game continues to crash on the Cryptic screen. Unlike a normal launch, there is no progress bar on the Cryptic screen and after 3-4 minutes the game crashes to desktop. I have tried everything suggested including launching in safe mode and compatibility mode. I have done this on both Holodeck and Tribble server but the game crashes on both servers. I have never received a crash code, which is always populated with Unknown.
Coincidentally, ARC Launcher is also failing now. At first, it was having trouble connecting to the Account server, but now ARC just crashes as soon as it is launched. Repair ARC does not work either.
I have documented all in another Thread titled Unable to Launch game
I have also opened up a support ticket, but I am still waiting for a constructive response.
Now STO has been working fine, well, as fine as would be expected considering the antiquity of the machine I am running, but I just pop on every once in a while just for ideas and concepts for my own development project.
The project is a 'real life' holodeck, based around Star Trek fiction. Crazy (and fun) development and research. Development is on this Windows XP system running the Atom processor leveraging Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual C++ with .net framework 1.5/2,0. Old school, but that's me, old school. I like coding with Visual Basic - makes dev fun for me - and the development like this with limited resources reinforces the elegant and careful approach and doesn't demand the latest and greatest in technological advancement which invariably seems to be causing more problems than it cures.
Case in point: STO's lag and crashes.
That, and I'm homeless and can't afford a top of the line computer!
..... And check out my Open Source Work, here: https://sourceforge.net/u/universalbri/profile/
Some of us remember that fiasco.
Yea they have been told. We will be lucky to get a we are working on it response from em. Let alone anything useful. Oh yea they might tell us "It's not the game its your computer that doesnt meet the requirements." We have gotten this a number of times in the past.
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I get the same error codes others have posted, and what I haven't seen so far: I don't have to click "engage", it auto-starts the game now. This is since the patch, but of course it still crashes all the same. Updated drivers, tried all combos of proxy/no proxy/safe mode/patch on demand/...
I wish I could just opt out of DR altogether.
how many pages did we hit? 600?
deokent what if its this time next year? LOL
Ahh Well if it stays for a while I have a Kepler Transport that will need some attention next year.
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I think one of them hit 990 pages before it got locked.
I did get a different number then last time.
Last Time: 33898269
This Time: 33880952
"The Forgotten Ones"
that was nearly 1,000.
2. Frost knew about it, yeah. There were warnings. I suppose the admin folks didnt care and ignored the warnings from the staff
Askray has personal issues to deal with, unavoidable so she's out of it for another week.
I think that LOr release broke Brandon's spirit.
Im set for that to go. I ground three characters through that last year. One for the Chel Gret One for the Plesh Brek, and the third for whatever ship comes this year. And with the discounts applied to them I'm good, as long as I get Two days in there.
Exactly.
I just spotted Brandon and invited him to say hello here. Please don't bite.
Fleet leader Nova Elite
Fleet Leader House of Nova elite
@ren_larreck
the patch failed.
again....
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Uninstalled video drivers
Uninstalled video card
Deleted direct x 11
Booted in windows safe mode
Reinstalled everything
Booted normally
Game works
Go figure
Admiral Sovak
Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers...