Character loads but not the game

[RaldoMcdaldo]

Hi all, since the Halloween event I have great difficulty logging on from the char. select screen. I select my char. and press the enter button but get a "EQ not responding message", yet when I try to re-log it reads that I have an active character. This is happening more than half the time now, and sometimes it takes me an hour worth of tries to get lucky. This also happens about a third of the time when I zone.