DaoC Failing on Startup

JamieW · Post by **JamieW** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:26 pm

Okay, well this was just an operator nuisance before, but

DaoC has a tendency to fail upon startup. After the server select screen, when the client begins to initialize to the character select screen, it just quits out.

Unfortunately, this appears to be a much bigger problem when trying to start a second session, when one is already running. To the point where, after about 10 tries the other night, I just gave up on it. I haven't been successful on getting 2 clients going simultaneously with WinEQ going on both recently. Last time I was successful was about 2 months ago. I don't know if there was a recent change to DaoC, or Win EQ that causes this, but it makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to run 2 DaoC clients together on one computer.

Post by **Lax** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:22 am

Is this with Catacombs client? I had this problem when I was originally developing WinEQ support for DAOC, but havent actually experienced it in testing in a long time. And unfortunately, I was never able to pinpoint exactly what's going on. I'm trying to test right now but apparently DAOC wont let me patch at the moment

JamieW · Post by **JamieW** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:50 pm

Yes, with the catacombs client.

Post by **Lax** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:26 am

I tried several times tonight to get it to fail, and couldnt. I did patch today so that might randomly fix it

JamieW · Post by **JamieW** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:38 pm

Lax wrote:I tried several times tonight to get it to fail, and couldnt. I did patch today so that might randomly fix it

Still the same problem, and now on a completely new system. In fact, tonight I tried unsuccessfully to log into DaoC 20 times in a row, including a reboot in the middle, and nothing doing.

Also had a friend recently get your product, and he says he has the same issue.

JamieW · Post by **JamieW** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:40 pm

And a quick update: I tried to use the TOA client the Catacombs client and the Darkness Rising client, and none of these worked. I basically can't play tonight.

Post by **Lax** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:48 am

My best guess at the moment is that it's actually crashing during launch and not showing an error window. I have a crash reporting system I'm working on, and that will be implemented in WinEQ 2 very soon -- hopefully it turns up the problem.

JamieW · Post by **JamieW** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:33 pm

Lax wrote:My best guess at the moment is that it's actually crashing during launch and not showing an error window. I have a crash reporting system I'm working on, and that will be implemented in WinEQ 2 very soon -- hopefully it turns up the problem.

Good deal. Normally when it crashes like this it doesn't persist more than a few times. Last night was an exception where nothing I was doing was seeming to work.

Same thing this morning, but a fresh install and re-patch of WinEQ2 and it loaded up okay, so I guess that's my work around for the time-being.