So I recently started having this crashing alot problem, and I dont know if I have any solid ideas as to why but hopefully this info helps.
The problem didn't really start for me until recently in the past few months, and has been alot worse lately.
I will be trying to log in to the character select and constantly getting booted back to the account log in, or I'll get into the character select and crash while trying to get online on my toons, or the crashes will occur after i've logged in and attempt to zone load.
While sometimes the problems can persist alot, often retrying numerous times I will eventually be successful trying to get in, or other times it will constantly crash and seem like I wont be able to play at all or eventually it will go away and start working normally again.
The problem didnt really become apparent for me until I created different accounts to hold mules to bank extra inventory I couldnt hold on my main toons, and I found while attempting to do xfers with a players help I would have trouble after trying to log into a different account then the one I normally play on, but I did find completely exiting the login and relaunching before entering a different account name and password to try and log in helped resolve crashing I found related to trying to log onto a different toon on another account then the one I just logged out of while trying to do an xfer.
there is also another thing, I play p99 from different locations sometimes, normally, and when I usually dont see this problem at all is when I am at home, playing on my older desktop using crappy wifi internet, and usually I account any crashes I experience to the fact that someone else int he house might be using a device on the internet causing me to time out and crash as a result.
Then on other occasions, when I am at a friends house playing on their newer laptop, using better hardline high speed cable, I found the problem happens alot, sometimes constantly, and only successfully being able to log in after many attempts, and then usually end up crashing at another point later when I try loading into another zone, but then on the same pc sometimes the problem goes away all together and I wont see the problem of crashing alot again for hours or days.
I thought it might have had problems to do with background programs running on the computer like antivirus and internet security programs, torrent downloading programs, steam or chrome, etc, related programs that could have an affect on internet connectivity, but often found shutting these programs down had little affect to releive the troubles.
I also thought that maybe it happens alot more during busier times when alot more players are on the server.
I also had a theory maybe it was related to some change in the game to do with the latest updates after they came out, or possible changes related to preperations for the upcoming velious release.
I don't know if any of this information helps, but if any of the staff want to message me sometime, I'll try and check in every few days and give some personal contact info if we want to test some things out and see what the problem might be.
My computer at home i usually play on and dont experience these problems doesnt have internet security, torrent downloading programs, or steam on it, so their might be a link between background programs, but disabling them on the laptop i play on at different times didnt seem to help releive the problem either.
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