loading after hitting play

[Spankin]

<p>After I hit the play button my screen goes back to desktop and then about 10-15 mins later the game starts to launch. Any help would be great I do not know where to begin to fix this.</p>

[Spankin]

<p>Hitting this again just to see if any one has any ideas for me please</p>

[Tikana]

<p>I'm having this same problem as well.  Would love to know how to fix it as well.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Could you post your DXDIAG information (just the top3  sections) and/or open a support ticket with your MSINFO files?  We've seen this quite a bit but the causes have been incredibly varied between users reporting it.</p>

[Spankin]

<p>I am not sure how to get them files for you. I will keep looking but could use some help. Thanks</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Spankin wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I am not sure how to get them files for you. I will keep looking but could use some help. Thanks</p></blockquote><p>Oh simply follow the links in my signature <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Tikana]

<p>Hopefully this is what you are looking for:</p><p>------------------System Information------------------Time of this report: 7/15/2011, 18:41:13       Machine name: OWNER-PC   Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631)           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)System Manufacturer: MSI       System Model: MS-7522               BIOS: Default System BIOS          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         950  @ 3.07GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.1GHz             Memory: 6144MB RAMAvailable OS Memory: 6136MB RAM          Page File: 1869MB used, 10399MB available        Windows Dir: C:Windows    DirectX Version: DirectX 11DX Setup Parameters: Not found   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode</p><p>------------DxDiag Notes------------      Display Tab 1: No problems found.      Display Tab 2: No problems found.        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.        Sound Tab 2: No problems found.          Input Tab: No problems found.</p><p>--------------------DirectX Debug Levels--------------------Direct3D:    0/4 (retail)DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)</p>

[Tikana]

<p>Well, something changed.  I hit play this evening and it went straight to char select instead of waiting.  Not sure why it's working properly again, but hopefully it continues!</p>

[Nirru]

<p>I get this on my first run each day of the game, been like that for as long as I've used the streaming client.  The hard drive grinds like crazy (another user posted over on the EQ2X forums that it's actually re-writing the entire asset cache for some reason) and there's actually an EverQuest2.exe process listed but not displayed.  Attempting to kill that process does nothing until it's done whatever it's doing, and then the game runs normally.</p><p>The larger my asset cache gets, the longer this process takes.  I end up deleting my asset cache every few days to keep the load/grind time to a minimum.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Nirrudn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I get this on my first run each day of the game, been like that for as long as I've used the streaming client.  The hard drive grinds like crazy (another user posted over on the EQ2X forums that it's actually re-writing the entire asset cache for some reason) and there's actually an EverQuest2.exe process listed but not displayed.  Attempting to kill that process does nothing until it's done whatever it's doing, and then the game runs normally.</p><p>The larger my asset cache gets, the longer this process takes.  I end up deleting my asset cache every few days to keep the load/grind time to a minimum.</p></blockquote><p>The asset_cache folder is your main game files.  Deleting that folder prompts a re-download of the entire game.  While it may not explain how the issue first occurred, redownloading the game over and over again would absolutely cause a ton of overhead/lag each time you do it.</p><p>Now, as your client gets closer to having the game fully downloaded, the "grinding" shouldn't get progressively worse.   I would look in to any issues with your memory, hard drive, or page file (possible corruption, you can remove and recreate this) for an answer as to why it does that for you specifically.</p><p>However, we do have a Full download version of our latest LaunchPad (LP3) available.  If you are okay with downloading the entire game up front I can assure you that it will correct a majority of the issues you describe with the streaming launchpad.  It does not use an asset_cache folder, instead it uses the old PAKS file structure available in Station Launcher and prior.  Not only should this address your specific issue, it also makes troubleshooting zone/object specific issues as you have direct access to each individual game file.</p><p><a href="http://launch.soe.com/eq2/" target="_blank">[EQII] LaunchPad</a></p>

[Nirru]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>However, we do have a Full download version of our latest LaunchPad (LP3) available.  If you are okay with downloading the entire game up front I can assure you that it will correct a majority of the issues you describe with the streaming launchpad.  It does not use an asset_cache folder, instead it uses the old PAKS file structure available in Station Launcher and prior.  Not only should this address your specific issue, it also makes troubleshooting zone/object specific issues as you have direct access to each individual game file.</p><p><a href="http://launch.soe.com/eq2/" target="_blank">[EQII] LaunchPad</a></p></blockquote><p>I'll give this a shot as I do run into other issues with the streaming client, thanks.</p><p>There's also a sticky in the EQ2X General Tech Support forums about this exact issue.  It's been almost a year now without SOE responding to it, even though people still continue to report the problem.  They're technically separate clients I know, but the symptoms are the same so it stands to reason the cause is the same for both.  There was a brief period of a couple weeks after an EQ2X patch that the problem went away for me, as you can tell by my post in that thread.</p><p>This is the original thread where I first heard of the problem, and DanKinney from SOE seems to acknowledge it's a streaming client issue, but there are some steps here the OP might want to try anyway and see if they work:</p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2x/posts/list.m?topic_id=2085" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2x...m?topic_id=2085</a></p>