Anybody else crashing since I5?

[Moon Jump]

(thaught I'd post this here insted of clogging the main board)

I just wanted to know how many other people have been having problems with their games since Issue 5 went up. I was playing last night with my TA Defender, and during the middle of a fight I went to use Flash Arrow and my whole computer froze and locked up.

But that's not the weiderst thing, I was playing last night with a Scrapper, and she stopped and said "This is weird, I just got an error message saying the game crashed, but it's still running" then she started to get the re-looping sounds. She re-booted and said it was working alright, but about 25 minutes after that, the same thing happened to me. I got the error message, but the game was still running.

Anybody else have problems?

[OneHitWonder]

I've had a great deal of lag and rubber-banding, and I crashed last night and returned to find myself dead. Zoning is taking alot longer than normal as well.

[sheld0n]

I was playing last night with a Scrapper, and she stopped and said "This is weird, I just got an error message saying the game crashed, but it's still running" then she started to get the re-looping sounds.

I had the same thing happen to me twice now. I tried to ignore it (instead of rebooting) and the game crashed after a while.
Might be a memory leak.

[suburbanhell]

Yep ever since I5. It's a sound-looping thing it seems, but it also seems the Crash log isn't being sent to cryptic but being saved in a zip file instead. It bites....Crashed 3-4x in the shadow shard TF, you can imagine how frustrating that was.

[Pseudodonn8]

Zoning is still longer, but atleast I don't crash before entering the game.

On the test server it would just lag at half the bar of the loading screan then send me right back to the login screan. Even tho' I could hear me popping up in the game with the enviromental noises and stuff.

The strange thing is this always happened in Talos. I don't think this was because there was an overload of people in Talos because I could appear in Outbreak and run a search of the people there in Talos and only three or four people would pop up.

The even stranger thing? This is still happening on the Test Server, but not on live.

Weirded out!

[suburbanhell]

Getting REAL sick of these crashes. GRR. Right in the middle of a Shadowshard Mission!

[suburbanhell]

Make that twice now within the last 2 minutes. I just restarted, got back into the mission map and Boom crashed again. :frustrated:

[Moon Jump]

Here's somthing else I've been noticing since I5 went live. I've been noticing that my pointer keeps changing colors like I'm pressing Tab to cycle through monsters. I'll be running around Steel Canyon and very quickly and randomlly it will highlight a random person, and the pointer will turn the certan colors, and I don't know if it's because of this, feals like it's lagging it more.

Anybody else have that going zone to zone?

[Istasi]

The game hasn't crashed on me, but I've been getting an ungodly amount of lag and rubberbanding that I've never gotten before, and I shouldn't be getting. I also have the magical color-changing cursor.

[suburbanhell]

Last night I crashed so many times it's not funny. This sound looping nonsense needs to stop.

There was one point where I couldn't even get back into the game even after a full computer restart. I'd log back on, click observe event (for the UB Tournanament) and no crash msg, no please tell cryptic anything, just all of a sudden I'm staring at my wallpaper again.

[Moon Jump]

Didn't even play for 15 minutes tonight and the friggen thing crashed. I think it might be the trick arrow effects, but then again, I really haven't used another one of my characters becides Moon Jump to help Rando in a mission.

I was in a cave mission in The Hollows and everybody was getting that glitch were you will see only black till you go through that certan part of the map, I was using my TA defender and I did my usual Flash Arrow into the mob to blind them, then I let our tankers run in and found a nice spot to put my Glue Arrow down..then CRASH!

I really hope the people that work at Cryptic will find a way to fix this stuff, it's being a big pain in the ass with the crashes and lag.

[Blackbat]

I get the sound loop problem alot, a notice will pop up telling me CoH needs to close, I drag the notice down to the bottom of the screen, turn off my speakers so I can't hear that annoying sound loop and keep on playing.

Lag is also a major problem, and zoning as become a hoping period. The whole 3-4 minutes it's loading, I'm just hoping it goes through and doesn't stall on me.

[Pseudodonn8]

Now is it looping sounds that are directly linked to crashes? Because last night Beholder (a DM/DA) ran through Steel Canyon with two armor sets on and went to Icon. Since he's like 12, I had to keep my armor on for the run but once I went inside Icon, before I could turn them off:

Everyone looked RIGHT at me, one even came up to me, and before they did anything else, I turned off my armor. Then they seemed to leave me alone after that. Maybe I looked good? (Doubtful, I'm just an all black chitlin guy, nothing special there) or was I a potential cause for crashing?

[suburbanhell]

I don't know but it seems to be getting a LOT worse across the board. I crashed about....25 times this weekend...and last night towards the end of the 2nd SS TF we were doing there was a lot of dropping going on because of this issue.

[OneHitWonder]

I finally just gave up last night. I couldn't zone without crashing, I lost connection every few seconds, was rubber-banding like crazy. Was absolutely impossible to play. I had just found a really good team too :(

[suburbanhell]

Well it couldn't have been too good of a team, I wasn't on it. :P

[OneHitWonder]

Heh, you're always already on a team when I'm around :P

[Grae Knight]

During the Hamidon Raid I crashed like 5 times, and was leading so it was not a good situation. A couple times I even had to reboot.

[Remianen]

I get the sound loop problem alot, a notice will pop up telling me CoH needs to close, I drag the notice down to the bottom of the screen, turn off my speakers so I can't hear that annoying sound loop and keep on playing.


Had this happen about 5 times over the course of the weekend. I tried switching sound cards several times (all Soundblasters: Audigy2 ZS, Audigy2 ZS Gamer, Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro, even an old school AWE-64) and couldn't isolate the problem. Someone I spoke to said it could have something to do with my nVidia drivers but I kinda blew that off since he's an ATI lover (playa-hater! :P).

It's annoying sure, but I've never had the game finish crashing after that box popped up. I just move it off-screen and keep doing what I'm doing.