So a little brief back story; I have been playing STO since 2013. I have used STO on 3 different gaming computers in this time and have had this issue before MANY MANY times, usually after a patch. In those instances, uninstalling, clearing temp dir, force verify, directx flags, patience, and/or safe mode have resolved loading issues. Once the loading issue is resolved once, it is resolved, until some time.... (usually corresponds to a major patch).
My computer is currently an MSI GT72S 16GB memory, SSD, GeForce GTX980M, i7, Windows 8.1 Pro, with drivers, firmware, and Windows updated with all applicable and sensible patches or latest revisions. Further - I did not change my computers configuration or setup*AT ALL* when this issue occurred. What I did do was patch the game....
Whether using STEAM, or ARC; uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling, clearing the system with disk tools etc, emptying all temp folders, cleaning the registry with ccleaner, turning off all non required services, disabling firewall, completely removing virus scanning software, reinstalling to completely different drive locations, etc - and as mentioned above, force verified, game safe mode, changed display settings, and dx9 game command line settings as found in numerous forums (e.g.Reddit)... And still, I cannot get the game to load.
I launch it, the launcher connects, enter username and password, it patches if applicable, and upon loading you get the screen which is all black and says "CRYPTIC". That is it. Nothing further. It looks like it is doing something as in, Windows does not complain about it, and it does not "crash" however if I click on it with my mouse, or look at the task manager, it does indeed say, "Not Responding". My only real option is to click, close or force kill. I have left it at this loading screen patiently for up to nearly two days - yes, two days (48 hours), and still, it did not load.
My computer is a very reliable machine, I'm able to play numerous other graphics intense games and perform computationally complex operations with ease, there is no malware or "issue" with my network or windows installation. I'm an IT/SW guy myself, so I'm saying this with the utmost confidence.
Does anyone have some ideas I have not suggested? (and no,.... I'm not going to wipe my system or reinstall windows, that should not be necessary in any way). Is there something the game does not clean up after itself after an uninstall (in the registry or on the drive somewhere)? Is there others with an issue with GTX980M cards? Perhaps its a mode thing? I suppose I will go create a temp user (new profile) and see if I can get it working.
Please share some new ideas that may have worked for you.
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Also, On Cryptic Support forum they indicate to update Java. Mine is 8.101 (latest). Still looking for ideas. Oh yea... I uninstalled and reinstalled again. AND tried Safe mode.
-d3d11enable 0 -d3d9 didn't work either.
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So.... what did you change Cryptic? Cause I certainly changed nothing (until it didn't work) - and I am positive, the 1's and 0's written to my drive are the 1's and 0's you sent me and everyone else. Especially since I have uninstalled and installed 8-12 times....
Please .... some Staff answer my Ticket or my post. I will help trouble shoot this. I cant be the only person with this issue... maybe other people just quit.
I'll let you know if I ever get it up and running. but I'm about to give up yet again....
First I had to delete the options in game inside the folder so it would revert to default.
Then I had to leave it running for several minutes until it finally loaded the login screen, went and did things like do housework or something, took it about 20 minutes.
Once loaded I immediately went to options on the login screen and adjusted the graphics to medium for almost everything.
Then I relaunched the game, it was still sluggish so then I went and found out that sluggishness was also due in part with the connection from the launcher so I copied the launcher information and set the proxy manually by using this command line in the launcher "-SetProxy us1.proxy.crypticstudios.com 80" Haven't had an issue yet.
In fact since I did those things I've improved the load time immensely and the game no longer crashes after patches and I now get faster load times in load screens for instances that have not yet been created (used to be 45 seconds now they are 17).
Support Response 1 with my [reply in brackets]:
Attachment: pastebin.com/ksQg4b4Y
Support Response 2 with my [reply in brackets]:
So there are my back and forth with them. At least if others in the community have a similar issue they can see if their hardware matches mine, and confirm they have tried these steps as well. Perhaps it will work for someone. To the previous poster that commented on letting it run for a few minutes... I did let it run for 2 days lol.
Thanks for the idea. No go.
My response was as follows:
My response:
i am having same issue, i try to log on after some time of being off and it comes up error. i am running wondows 10 and it worked the last time i was online and now nothing.
and find my first post in this topic
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/comment/12926806?
I'm also having this issue...
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Your recommendation is of no help, as I have indicated, the game never gets past the "CRYPTIC" loading screen. Therefore I cannot access in game options. Thank you for trying.
I have two MSI machines, 4th gen i7 & 6th gen i7. The game is currently working on the 4th gen. Both are Win 8.1 Pro by the way.
I did follow up and create an entirely new user profile. This did not work. This was my note below:
They responded by asking me for my Gameprefs:
Which I provided. The response was:
For all to read, this is what was *(and still is in it)....
Since they asked me to delete it, and recreate it... I did. As mentioned... it recreated it with the same thing:
Sadly... The response to this today was:
This was very frustrating because we have already been down this road. While I fully accept and acknowledge that "something could have changed" on my computer, or OS, it certainly was not a malicious change, and as it runs GREAT, and I am not a noob with computers, I say with good emphasis, that my computer is OK! Clearly something the game wants, my computer is not giving it. Now if ONLY Support would ACTUALLY support this, and do some debugging, perhaps this could be resolved for large numbers of enthusiastic & loyal players.
So all in all, I am trying hard to avoid being too snarky, but clearly, I am frustrated, as is probably anyone else reading this thread and experiencing the same technical difficulties.
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I opened the Gameprefs file afterwards, and it didnt overwrite a thing - even after closing the game, it had the same things. If I delete it, it creates the file the way I quoted it above.
I am also having these exact same problems, and while I also have an Alienware, mine is an Alienware 14, which like yours is running Windows 10.
A few years ago, after the release of the Legacy of Romulus expansion, I believe, there was an entire month where the game was completely inaccessible for a number of us; and I'm beginning to fear that this is essentially a repeat performance of that incident.
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FTW CRYPTIC/PWC?!
Would be nice to have this fixed.
Trying loading without ARC to see if it will do anything
I just tried the game, and for the first time in over a month, almost TWO.... it WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only thing I did, was install Putty today for reasons COMPLETELY unrelated to the game. Anyways, I just tried to load it. This is the screen I was stuck on all of this time:
The difference for me EVERY SINGLE TIME I've tried this, (except for now), is that the "LOADING BAR" never showed up.
Oh, by the way.... my Gameprefs file is indeed showing my video card as a GeForce 980M
I'm experiencing this problem as well. Someone please help!
As I mentioned, I installed PUTTY, and of course the game updated.... One size solution does not fit all, but I posted every conversation and recommendation support made to me so that the rest of those that stumble upon this might find a solution.
I guess if anyone TRIES everything above, and it does not work, try adding PUTTY, or removing ROCCAT. BUT in both of these possible suggestions.... I'd say do it more as a last resort if the game was working previously. (Cause in my case, my system configuration had not changed AT ALL... just the game itself was updated).... Preposterous!
Updated for the recent patch, and the game will not get past the loading screen.
I type my password and get told "syntax error" then the crash reporter comes up.
I actually checked :\Program Files (x86)\Star Trek Online_en\Star Trek Online\Live\localdata for the game pref file and didn't find it. \localdata doesn't even exist in \live on my system.