Can't see prestige housing portals

[Darkmage61]

<p>I buged this in game but I think I just didn't get some art files.</p><p>I can't see the public prestige housing portals in Freeport.</p><p>I have a summer home on one toon and I can get the portal object to place in my alts house, but when I try and place it I can not see it to finish the placement.</p><p>My Wife has a libary and placed a portal in my home but I can not see it.</p><p>I have:</p><p>Deleated my cache and login cache.</p><p>Forced a full scan from the launcher.</p><p>Could I try copying the (as yet unknown) art files from my wifes system to mine to fix this?</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>You could try disabling Shader 3.0 to see if they appear (as a way to identify where the issues lies).</p><p>Other than that, which patcher are you using?  Does your EQ2 folder have an asset_cache or a PAK folder?</p>

[Darkmage61]

<p>Joshua,</p><p>Thanks for getting back with me on this. I didn't see your reply before the great time of void.</p><p>I did not have shader 3.0 running. Turned it on to check but no chance so I went back to not useing it.</p><p>I do have an asset_cache folder with one 1.6Gb file in it. I do not have a PAK folder but I do have a paks folder.</p><p>Edit: Croection I have an assetcache folder not an asset_cache.</p><p>I am useing launcher Ver 442, shell 3.0.0.223, plug in 151.</p>

[Zehl_Ice-Fire]

<p>You mean the new ones? I can't see those till I"m right on top of them, yes I play in lower graphics. The portals need a tweak so you can see them from more than 1 foot away in game.</p>

[Darkmage61]

<p>I don't know what happened, but after Sunday's down time I can see the portals just fine. Got to love bugs that fix themselvs. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>As long as you can see em!  I'll try to find out if a change happened without us knowing.  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Odihsub]

<p>Hi,</p><p>I also am having the issue of not being able to see things in game:</p><p>portal paintings, invisible</p><p>housing portals, invisible</p><p>Griff mount, invisible (I look like Superwoman flying thru the air, except I'm upright)</p><p>NPCs are disappearing after I hail them  (betrayal timeline NPC in DLW,  NPC by Druid Ring in DLW)</p><p>City Festival merchant NPCs are not clickable.... the coin icon does not even show up when I mouse over them</p><p>Objects such as doors that zone you from Antonica to Qeynos...  DLWood to CL... not clickable</p><p>When I cast my Circle of Growth, it is unclickable, therefore I can't use it either</p><p>Your help would be very much appreciated.   I have had the portal painting issue before and it was fixed by taking away Shader 3.0 and reflections in houses.  Now, it's bugged again with a vengeance, although I didnt change my settings.</p><p>The housing portal visibility was an issue for me right after the patch went in for it, the day of double XP before SOE shut down.</p><p>Thanks in advance.</p>

[Bunji]

<p><cite>Odihsub wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hi,</p><p>I also am having the issue of not being able to see things in game:</p><p>portal paintings, invisible</p><p>housing portals, invisible</p><p>Griff mount, invisible (I look like Superwoman flying thru the air, except I'm upright)</p><p>NPCs are disappearing after I hail them  (betrayal timeline NPC in DLW,  NPC by Druid Ring in DLW)</p><p>City Festival merchant NPCs are not clickable.... the coin icon does not even show up when I mouse over them</p><p>Objects such as doors that zone you from Antonica to Qeynos...  DLWood to CL... not clickable</p><p>When I cast my Circle of Growth, it is unclickable, therefore I can't use it either</p><p>Your help would be very much appreciated.   I have had the portal painting issue before and it was fixed by taking away Shader 3.0 and reflections in houses.  Now, it's bugged again with a vengeance, although I didnt change my settings.</p><p>The housing portal visibility was an issue for me right after the patch went in for it, the day of double XP before SOE shut down.</p><p>Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p>Are you using a streaming (assetcache folder present) or full patcher (PAKs folder present)?</p>

[Darkmage61]

<p>Well heck .. OP here. I had an problem after this fixed itself where I was locking up in character select. I went in and deleted my <span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">assetcache and now the portals are gone again.</span></p><p>I started out useing the old launcher and got a full download of the game. Thus I have a PAKs folder. At some point I found out that my old launcher wasn't supported so I HAD to switch to the new streaming launcher. Thus I got the <span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">assetcache </span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">folder.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So now the game sometimes wants to redownload itself and it starts off on its marry way to try and download 13Gb of info. My poor 1.8Mb DSL begins to wimper and I stop the 24 hour download.</span></p><p>So here is my question, how do I get the game to understand I don't need all 13Gb, but I do need some stuff like the portals?</p>

[Bunji]

<p><cite>Darkmage61 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Well heck .. OP here. I had an problem after this fixed itself where I was locking up in character select. I went in and deleted my <span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">assetcache and now the portals are gone again.</span></p><p>I started out useing the old launcher and got a full download of the game. Thus I have a PAKs folder. At some point I found out that my old launcher wasn't supported so I HAD to switch to the new streaming launcher. Thus I got the <span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">assetcache </span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">folder.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So now the game sometimes wants to redownload itself and it starts off on its marry way to try and download 13Gb of info. My poor 1.8Mb DSL begins to wimper and I stop the 24 hour download.</span></p><p>So here is my question, how do I get the game to understand I don't need all 13Gb, but I do need some stuff like the portals?</p></blockquote><p>If you sit at Play on the patcher the streaming client will try to download the full game.  If you hit Play and get into game, the streaming client will then download the assets it currently needs (you might not see everything immediately as the streaming client queue's up assets to stream down, but once the dragon icon goes away everything in your immediate, and nearby areas should be visible).</p><p>Once the assets are downloaded they remain in your local install directory's assetcache folder (so you only have to download that data again if it changes in a future patch).</p><p>So, to answer your question, you can't tell the patcher what to download specifically, but when you hit Play and enter the game it will prioritize the assets nearby to your character, which would include the portal if you are near them.</p><p>Also, when you installed the streaming patcher make sure it installed to a new directory and did not install over an existing install.  You do not want a PAKs folder in your streaming install directory for it can cause issues with your assets (this could happen if you forced the streaming install over a previous full PAKs install).</p>

[Darkmage61]

<p>Just so you know:</p><p>The order I did things in is this:  (I think I saw this somewhere on the forums)</p><p>I downladed and installed the streaming launcher.</p><p>Started the lancher and pointed it to a new dir for setup of EQ2</p><p>Let it set up the dir, run other install needed functions, and have it start downloading content.</p><p>canceled the download and copied all my files from the old EQ2 dir in to the new one</p><p>Restarted launcher and did a scan and I was able to get in without downloading a bunch of stuff.</p><p>I messed up when I copied the PAKs dir I think.</p><p>I will go rename my PAKs dir to XXPAKsXX (old habit.. rename better then restore when testing). I hope your servers have mercy on my poor DSL.</p><p>I will let you know what happens.</p>

[Odihsub]

<p>Hi Bunji,</p><p>I have the streaming launcher, most recent one.</p><p>Darklight Wood and Antonica seem especially buggy but my bugs are happening all over the place in general I suppose.  I thought once I changed the files when this happened w/ invisible mounts portal paintings before... and it was fixed... that it was fixed as long as I didn't change the settings... Guess not since the files change w/ patches?</p><p>Thank you for your help, I'm anxious to get this solved and have no idea what to do at this point.</p>

[Odihsub]

<p><cite>Darkmage61 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I buged this in game but I think I just didn't get some art files.</p><p>I can't see the public prestige housing portals in Freeport.</p><p>I have a summer home on one toon and I can get the portal object to place in my alts house, but when I try and place it I can not see it to finish the placement.</p><p>My Wife has a libary and placed a portal in my home but I can not see it.</p><p>I have:</p><p>Deleated my cache and login cache.</p><p>Forced a full scan from the launcher.</p><p>Could I try copying the (as yet unknown) art files from my wifes system to mine to fix this?</p></blockquote><p>This is the same sort of issue I'm having, plus not being able to target, click or interact with some npcs, mobs, nodes, and also doors to zone into other areas.  </p>

[Odihsub]

<p>After reading some of the notes in this thread, I did the following:</p><p>I looked in my files and I had an old copy of EQ2 from the nonstreaming version that was located under PROGRAM files.  I deleted the launcher and PAKS folders out of that but wasnt sure if I should delete everything in that file or not...</p><p>I ran streaming launcher again and my bug issues seemed all gone!...............until</p><p>I've been having crashes when I am now trying to load into new zones.  It gives me this message:</p><p>Fatal Error:</p><p>(said it was unrecoverable and had to shut down)</p><p><verify> E:liveeq2gameclientsrcGameScene.cpp(5111):  Failed to create zone.  Suggestion:  do a full scan from the patcher.  004ff89932748380</p><p>This is happening intermittently when I try to switch zones. </p><p>I also have done a full scan several times and checked streaming assets on startup.</p><p>Can you please give me more guidance on this?  Thank you.</p>

[Odihsub]

<p>After reading some of the notes in this thread, I did the following:</p><p>I looked in my files and I had an old copy of EQ2 from the nonstreaming version that was located under PROGRAM files.  I deleted the launcher and PAKS folders out of that but wasnt sure if I should delete everything in that file or not...</p><p>I ran streaming launcher again and my bug issues seemed all gone!...............until</p><p>I've been having crashes when I am now trying to load into new zones.  It gives me this message:</p><p>Fatal Error:</p><p>(said it was unrecoverable and had to shut down)</p><p><verify> E:liveeq2gameclientsrcGameScene.cpp(5111):  Failed to create zone.  Suggestion:  do a full scan from the patcher.  004ff89932748380</p><p>This is happening intermittently when I try to switch zones. </p><p>I also have done a full scan several times and checked streaming assets on startup.</p><p>Can you please give me more guidance on this?  Thank you.</p>

[Katz]

<p>Someone in my guid cannot see the prestige portals in south qeynos.  The only way he can get to the house it by traveling from the guild hall.</p><p>Any suggestions on what he should do?</p>

[Darkmage61]

<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #339966; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #339966; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #008000;">I wanted to update everyone on how I was doing on the portals issue.</span></span></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #339966; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #339966; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #008000; font-size: small;">After renaming the PAKs DIR I started up. Well, first I spent about 20 min of quality time with the dinosaur. I then got to character select and then I walked the dinosaur for another 10 min to get into the guild hall.  Slow DSL, but where I live I’m lucky to have it at all.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #008000; font-size: small;">I spent a lot of time with that dinosaur. My wife says his name is Dino.. what else would you call a dinosaur she argued.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #008000; font-size: small;">On the upside I can see the portals again.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #008000; font-size: small;">I left the game up at the “play” prompt and it never downloaded anything. I will try running a scan from options tonight and see if it helps.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #008000; font-size: small;">So problem fixed I guess, but the cure is almost worse. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't deleting the assetcache folder a common trouble shooting step? Something goes sideways with that one big file and you have to download at all from scratch?</span></span></span></span></span></div>