Unable to zone after starting 2nd instance of game etc.

[DuneWarrior]

<p>A little info..</p><p>I run 2 instancs of the game on 1 computer out of the same installation directory, which have worked just fine uptil june 8th..</p><p>Since patch on June tuesday 8th (2010/06/0<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  ive been having the following issue..</p><p>Occassionally ill crash zoning on one of the accounts, and then be totally UNABLE to login with that toon until i exit EQ2 and restart it for that one account - the other account is just fine.</p><p>If i try and log another toon in instead of the one that crashed, ill get logged in, but once i try to zone the same behaviour - ie. it crashes me upon zone and the toon can not login untill EQ2 is restarted for the account.</p><p>Might wanna toss that to QA and please contact me for any further information, its VERY annoying</p>

[Rothgar]

<p><cite>Zaktull@Najena wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>A little info..</p><p>I run 2 instancs of the game on 1 computer out of the same installation directory, which have worked just fine uptil june 8th..</p><p>Since patch on June tuesday 8th (2010/06/0<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" />  ive been having the following issue..</p><p>Occassionally ill crash zoning on one of the accounts, and then be totally UNABLE to login with that toon until i exit EQ2 and restart it for that one account - the other account is just fine.</p><p>If i try and log another toon in instead of the one that crashed, ill get logged in, but once i try to zone the same behaviour - ie. it crashes me upon zone and the toon can not login untill EQ2 is restarted for the account.</p><p>Might wanna toss that to QA and please contact me for any further information, its VERY annoying</p></blockquote><p>If you're running the streaming client, its possible that your asset cache has become corrupt.  This is just a shot in the dark, but if you don't mind re-downloading game assets, you could delete all of the files in your assetcache directory and see if that solves your problem.</p><p>If you aren't on the streaming client, ignore all of this.</p>

[DuneWarrior]

<p>Not using streaming at all. so ignoring <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Any other ideas is MORE than appreciated.</p>

[Daedalus Raistlin]

I found I had crashes if I tried dual boxing when Shader 3.0 was turned on on both clients. Try logging in one client, turning off Shader 3.0, and then starting the other client. I never had problems running one with Shader 3.0 and one without (or both without), however I too experienced crashes when it was turned on on both. For reference, not using the streaming client, and have an ATI 5000 series video card.

[DuneWarrior]

<p>A little more info...</p><p>Seems it ALWAYS gets stuck on : Connecting to Zone Server. Then without any error messages it returns to Character select. If i try to login again  - as previously described - it will repeat this pattern of trying to connected and returning to character select without error messages etc.</p>

[DuneWarrior]

<p><cite>Daedalus Raistlin wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I found I had crashes if I tried dual boxing when Shader 3.0 was turned on on both clients. Try logging in one client, turning off Shader 3.0, and then starting the other client. I never had problems running one with Shader 3.0 and one without (or both without), however I too experienced crashes when it was turned on on both. For reference, not using the streaming client, and have an ATI 5000 series video card.</blockquote><p>not running Shader 3 at all.</p>

[PeterJohn]

<p>I am having exact same issue. Connecting to Zone Server, then booted to Character Select Screen. Unable to load that toon until I restart EQ2.</p><p>Today was the first day that restarting EQ2 did not fix the problem. I had to restart the game twice.</p><p>Once this error has started, I can load up other toons, just not the stuck ones. But any other toon that I load will also become stuck if I try to zone into a new zone.</p>

[DuneWarrior]

<p><cite>PeterJohn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I am having exact same issue. Connecting to Zone Server, then booted to Character Select Screen. Unable to load that toon until I restart EQ2.</p><p>Today was the first day that restarting EQ2 did not fix the problem. I had to restart the game twice.</p><p>Once this error has started, I can load up other toons, just not the stuck ones. But any other toon that I load will also become stuck if I try to zone into a new zone.</p></blockquote><p>exactly what im experienceing since the patch on wednesday... *dials up a dev and the QA team* <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[DuneWarrior]

<p>Even more info...</p><p>Been able to totally avoid the issue today by not zoneing my accounts at the same - or close to same - time.</p><p>Ie, i let one account finish zoning before zoning the other - which can be a pain with zonewide zoneins i tell ya!!!</p><p>That seems to eliminate the problem, so while its a work around its definately NOT a fix - considering zonewide zoneins etc. Is this another case of a file that acciedentially is getting locked during zoneing ? or something in that ballpark ?</p>

[Fendaria]

<p><cite>Zaktull@Najena wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>A little more info...</p><p>Seems it ALWAYS gets stuck on : Connecting to Zone Server. Then without any error messages it returns to Character select. If i try to login again  - as previously described - it will repeat this pattern of trying to connected and returning to character select without error messages etc.</p></blockquote><p>I've gotten this error recently as well and I do not run two accounts on the same box.  I do have two accounts on separate boxes though.</p><p>Not using the streaming client (least not on purpose).</p><p>Fendaria</p>

[Moodo]

<p>I have this issue too.</p><p>I just came back to the game. Playing on a new pc, and its a newly downloaded game, as well as a new account.</p><p>Something tells me that its cache problem or a problem with some temp file that cannot be accessed for some reason, but its just a wild guess really.</p>

[Moodo]

<p>did anyone found out how to fix this ?</p>