random crashing while zoning, higher ms, blank server select!?!

[towbes]

Disclaimer: The following is all conjecture and I have no proof or data to backup my claims.

This seems to me some issue with TTL on a packet somewhere. The upload on my ISP is absolutely terrible. When trying to zone during times I know my internet is at its worst, the screen will sit loading for ~3 minutes, finally kick back out to login screen, then when I login again it says my character is still in game and I need to wait. So while the character was never really disconnected from the server, there was some signal lost along the way telling my client I was still connected. Likely this is an issue that would require optimizing for poor connections, which would have a decent chance have having a negative effect on gameplay.

[so3arbelnox]

Been having zoning issues for the last 6 months now. I live in Japan but have no problems with any other online games. 200 mb/s Internet. Its really frustrating..and it seems from this 28 page thread that the devs really don't care. Bit of a shame but oh well. Was fun while it lasted.

[thestallion1]

Looks like basically servers are just too congested at times for poor connections to login. High speed internet is required to play for now.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...t=login+server

[Tann]

Originally Posted by thestallion1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Looks like basically servers are just too congested at times for poor connections to login. High speed internet is required to play for now.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...t=login+server

Heaven forbid they fix the problem being that it's their server that cant handle all the connections, better to make those peons out in the blue yonder either give up or drop $$$ for better internets (which isn't an option for some).

[thestallion1]

Doesn't look like its just Project 1999's server issue, because people on other EQemu servers having problems. So you might want to post your bitching on that forum instead [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

..not even going to respond to that
VVVV

[Tann]

they all use the same login server :P

[Pipsqueak]

I have been having crashing issues only while zoning or loading in from the character screen only since the last major patch. I managed to reduce the 50-60% zone crashing down to about 25% by turning off loading art while zoning in the Eq options as people have suggested in the crashing FAQ. I have tried port forwarding and running in admin mode with no luck. My wifes computer runs the same problem and it has just been since the last patch so i'm not sure what else to try. Hopefully it will get sorted out in a later update its just a minor inconvenience having to force shut down and wait for our characters to get booted before logging in. To everyone elses problems I suggest checking out the FAQ at the top of the Tech page and try some of the remedies. It might not cure it but it made it a lot less annoying.

[jtobias1989]

I too am experiencing this problem. About 75% of the time I can't make it to character select without crashing or have a blank server selection screen, and almost always crash while zoning. Now at 200-400 latency.

This problem just recently starting(~1 week 1/25/2015) with over a year of no issues.

I am using a standard Alienware X51 with the only modification being an SSD and a newer graphics card.
-Intel i7-3770
-16 GB Ram
-GTX 660
-64 bit operating system.

I have tried the following with no success:
-Restarting Computer
-Restarting Internet(Router/Modem)
-Trying either winEQ and EQEMU(Using the right click > Start EQ Only)
-No loading art on zoning

I refuse to badmouth the P99 moderators and owners because I know first hand how awesome they are and how they care for us(The community). And I also see that this is a very common problem, being a 29 page thread going back years. However hopefully my specs and list of things tried will help solve this eventually.

So even though I already had V36 (The most recent distribution files) I re downloaded them again and it seems to have calmed(not fixed) my issue greatly. I am now at 85-140 latency and haven't crashed yet as of 3 hours of play. I would suggest doing this to try and fix.

[lcykueper]

We are having this problem now. Takes at least 2 hours for us to get logged in at times (not kidding), then everytime we have to zone, we freeze, go linkdead, and go about trying to log in once again. We get patch errors, blank server screen, blank screen that takes us back to the log in screen, or flat out refuses to even try to connect with the server. Every other game we have will open and run, but for some reason it wont let us into EQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] We got booted while zoning on the ship earlier.... Are our bodies going to be out in the ocean??? We flat out can not log back in...

[Ravager]

I have the exact same problems. Occurs most frequently during peak hours, but can happen any time of day. Unfortunately I live in the last mile and DSL is the fastest connection I can get. When I do manage to log on, my pings are usually around 67ms, so not bad The problems only ever occur when the client talks to the login server. Spent three hours trying to logon to recover a corpse last night, most of that time spent trying to get passed all of the logon issues described by everyone here.