Daedalon
02-19-2019, 04:35 PM
I don't see another thread about this, but I've seen more players going Linkdead lately, so I suspect it's the same issue I'm having.
I've been playing on P99 for about a year and a half now, and this behavior never happened until the patch. It often, but not always, occurs around combat, and I suspect has something to do with casting spells, changing targets, or opening the spell book.
What happens is suddenly the EQ client seems to jam up like outbound data is not being sent any more. I can still see combat going on around me, still see group messages and receive tells, but nothing I try to cast or say seems to register with the server. This will go on for about 30-45 seconds before I get a disconnect message. I then get dumped back to the character select screen, and almost ALWAYS trying to take a character back on the server at this point results in the load bar filling up, then another black disconnect screen. Sometimes I get disconnected another 1-2 times after that before the server finally lets me back in.
This has happened every day now since the patch for 9 days and I've never seen the game behave this way ever before. In the past when ISP went out or something rarely, other players would vanish or freeze mid combat, and certainly all group chat/tell reception would stop.
It's happening regularly enough that I wanted to make sure it was brought up, since I didn't see any other threads about this yet with a quick skim. The new loading times are great, but getting disconnected repeatedly for several minutes per day sort of cancels out the time savings. :)
Hope someone can isolate and fix this one soon!
I've been playing on P99 for about a year and a half now, and this behavior never happened until the patch. It often, but not always, occurs around combat, and I suspect has something to do with casting spells, changing targets, or opening the spell book.
What happens is suddenly the EQ client seems to jam up like outbound data is not being sent any more. I can still see combat going on around me, still see group messages and receive tells, but nothing I try to cast or say seems to register with the server. This will go on for about 30-45 seconds before I get a disconnect message. I then get dumped back to the character select screen, and almost ALWAYS trying to take a character back on the server at this point results in the load bar filling up, then another black disconnect screen. Sometimes I get disconnected another 1-2 times after that before the server finally lets me back in.
This has happened every day now since the patch for 9 days and I've never seen the game behave this way ever before. In the past when ISP went out or something rarely, other players would vanish or freeze mid combat, and certainly all group chat/tell reception would stop.
It's happening regularly enough that I wanted to make sure it was brought up, since I didn't see any other threads about this yet with a quick skim. The new loading times are great, but getting disconnected repeatedly for several minutes per day sort of cancels out the time savings. :)
Hope someone can isolate and fix this one soon!