Launchpad.exe suddenly wants to "preload" 14GB

[Ageegard]

<p>Launchpad.exe suddenly wants to "preload" 14GB</p><p> Logged out of game to swap accts - but then got a "preload" 14GB start when starting launchpad-</p><p>Now happening on 2nd PC too - - whats happened?</p><p>Agee</p>

[Jrral]

<p>Same here. And when I check LaunchPad.ini, I find this:</p><p>[Settings]digestURL=http://manifest.patch.station.sony.com/patch/sha/manifest/launchpad/lp4/live/lp-eq2-ext.sha.soeappName=EverQuest IIappIcon=EQII.icoid=eq2width=917height=638options =full:0</p><p>The last line seems to say the launchpad's been reset to the streaming version. Except I've never installed the streaming version, it's the full version. And with raids, I can't afford the instability of the streaming version. And I've got a raid in... 70 minutes. Not a good time for this.</p><p>Addendum: I went back to <a href="http://launch.soe.com/eq2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://launch.soe.com/eq2/</a> and re-downloaded the Full client, and installed it into my existing game directory making sure to do a new install. Once I'd done that, it appears to have gone back to the full-download client again.</p>

[Ageegard]

just checked: mine has options=full:0 the 3rd pc that still working has "options=tcg:1,full:1"

[Ageegard]

<p>changing the options to the other settings - started launcher - didn't fix - bypassed launcher - and got prompt about launcher set to streaming - selected "FULL" - retied launcher - it worked (interesting - ini shows back to full:0)</p>

[Democratt]

<p>Wait. What did you do?</p>

[Ageegard]

i directly ran EverQuest2.exe to bypass the launcher - it then gave me prompt about launchpad settings wrong

[Ageegard]

i selected FULL when it prompted me

[Regolas]

<p>I did all this and it still wants to download, but no longer as assets. So I guess it corrupted and hopefully this total reinstall will fix.</p>

[Ageegard]

hi reg, did it fix for u? - have logged out twice more and logged indifferent accts - prob hasn't reoccured

[Regolas]

<p>Yes, reinstall worked and no dino or streaming.</p><p>But looks like from this post <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=514292">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=514292</a> that it can happen again, as it's been happening to others randomly it seems since January, so not just the latest update.</p>

[Lauralanthalasa]

<p>This happened to me also today and made me 20 minutes late for our raid, 14gb download and is streaming even though I have the check box in options unchecked for streaming download.</p>

[Rothrandir]

<p>I had this issue this morning.  I think the problem happened because the launcher suddenly decided my launchpad.ini needed to be updated.  Here's the excerpt from the ".DownloadInfo.txt" file:</p><pre>**** Starting at Sun Feb 26 11:14:08 2012 with plug-in 1.0.3.170 ****0aec-00:00:00:Checking game installation...0aec-00:00:00:Found 2 file(s) to update.066c-00:00:01:Replacing eq2_default.ini07a4-00:00:01:Replacing LaunchPad.iniFinished downloading 860 bytes in 0.180 seconds (4,777 bytes per second)0aec-00:00:01:Beginning asset preload...</pre><p>After I downloaded the full client and did a "new install" over my old EQ2 directory, the preloading went away.</p>

[faith]

<p>Having same issue tried a new client and it hasnt worked for me trying now to install it all again</p>

[Kryvak]

<p>I'm having the same problem here, game crashed in the middle of a raid last night and when I started it back up, I was streaming. Here's my DownloadInfo.txt</p><p><p>**** Starting at Sun Feb 26 20:22:16 2012 with plug-in 1.0.3.170 ****</p><p>1084-00:00:02:Checking game installation...</p><p>1084-00:00:02:Found 3 file(s) to update.</p><p>07ec-00:00:02:Creating !RunUntilLaunch.dll</p><p>0a20-00:00:02:Replacing LaunchPad.ini</p><p>07ec-00:00:02:Replacing eq2_default.ini</p><p>Finished downloading 113,572 bytes in 0.464 seconds (244,767 bytes per second)</p><p>1084-00:00:02:Beginning asset preload...</p><p>1058-00:00:09:Asset preload complete</p></p>

[Cerenity]

<p>Is there a fix for this yet?? just happened to me this morning.... annoying</p>

[Kryvak]

<p>Well, I just searched my Everquest II folder for "launchpad," deleted every file that came up, then deleted !RunUntilLaunch.dll, and reinstalled the launcher. When I run from EverQuest2.exe it runs streaming, but running the launcher makes it start to download 12Gb of data. The weirdest thing is, Test Server was never affected. I could log in perfectly fine there and not be in streaming. Letting the launcher do what it wants to now, I'll tell you what happens.</p>

[Kryvak]

<p>I just asked in the test chat channel in game to see if anyone else was having that problem, and found out that someone else and a couple of his guildies crashed and reloaded into streaming around 5:30 PM pacific, which was just about the same time it happened to me.</p>

[Kryvak]

<p>Just switched over to Test server from the launchpad to see if it was still unaffected (it was, ran fine and not streaming), then tried to switch back to liv (US English in the dropdown) and let the launcher do its thing, but it says "Found 1,264 files to update," but it won't do anything, above the (empty) progress bar it says "Checking 0 files."</p><p>EDIT: Restarted the launcher and it's downloading the 12gb again, letting it go for now.</p>

[Kryvak]

<p>Just noticed I just said just a lot in those posts I just wrote. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/ed515dbff23a0ee3241dcc0a601c9ed6.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Ex_Venia]

<p>Im stuck in an infinite loop of:</p><p>1) launchpad trying to pre-load assets</p><p>2) log in</p><p>3)something to the effect of "the launchpad has streaming assets, but your game is a full download, would you like to set "full" download"?</p><p>4) Yes (game is un-playable in streaming)</p><p>5) Please re-start launchpad for this change to take effect</p><p>6) Restart.......<back to step 1></p><p>If I try to bypass the launchpad and go straight to EQII.exe Im stuck in a streaming client.  Options box for streaming is unchecked.  Little dragon racing away in the corner. Game un-playable. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p>

[dawy]

<p>I've had the farcial day of reinstalling the whole game..besides the point that i have the game nicely sat on my hard drive i am o angry about this atm i do have a downlod limit and this may well push me over it,not good enough.</p>

[TSR-MattG]

<p><cite>Kickinu@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Is there a fix for this yet?? just happened to me this morning.... annoying</p></blockquote><p>Those of you experiencing this, are you running any AV software? If so can you set exceptions for launchpad.exe and everquest2.exe? My current operating theory is you may be getting some files quarantined, or the apps may be being run in sandbox mode.</p>

[Cerenity]

<p><cite>TSR-MattG wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kickinu@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Is there a fix for this yet?? just happened to me this morning.... annoying</p></blockquote><p>Those of you experiencing this, are you running any AV software? If so can you set exceptions for launchpad.exe and everquest2.exe? My current operating theory is you may be getting some files quarantined, or the apps may be being run in sandbox mode.</p></blockquote><p>I have currently shut down my AV and this issue is still happening, I have fowarded my Dxdiag and msinfo to CS in hopes to resolve. I have an open ticket.</p>

[Ex_Venia]

<p><cite>Kickinu@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>TSR-MattG wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kickinu@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Is there a fix for this yet?? just happened to me this morning.... annoying</p></blockquote><p>Those of you experiencing this, are you running any AV software? If so can you set exceptions for launchpad.exe and everquest2.exe? My current operating theory is you may be getting some files quarantined, or the apps may be being run in sandbox mode.</p></blockquote><p>I have currently shut down my AV and this issue is still happening, I have fowarded my Dxdiag and msinfo to CS in hopes to resolve. I have an open ticket.</p></blockquote><p>No change here either.</p>

[Heinzrick]

<p>Just got home from work, launchpad also asking me to preload or download the game again.</p><p>ISP have lost there minds as of late so 14gigs (if my cap is blown) will cast me 28$ to download</p><p>waiting for fix...</p><p>/EDIT -</p><p>Renamed lauchpad and ran Everquest2.exe when it asked me to swith to full mode I said yes. I then renamed a lauchpad.exe.bak to launchpad.exe and now she's ok.</p><p>/EDIT -</p>

[Kryvak]

<p>I let the launcher run and download the 12gb it wanted to, and it fixed the streaming issue, but I can't find what the heck it downloaded. I can tell it installed 12gb somewhere, but my game directory is still the same, I have no idea where all the files it put in are.</p>

[Laretha]

<p>Still not working turned off FW and AV nothing,  allowed exceptions to Launchpad.exe and everquest.exe not working.</p><p>If I run Launchpad it wants to download 14gb even though i hav down loaded it twice now!</p><p>If I run Eveguest.exe it makes me stream but unable to actually get into the game</p><p>please help!</p>

[Tigress]

<p>two threads, i dont know where to post.  it isn't ppls AV, its the launcher.  it is CHANGING the default.</p><p><cite>Tigress wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>someone ruined the launcher.  today, i noticed that it was pre-loading the entire game again.  i got this pop up msg:</p><p>Launchpad is configured to use streaming assets but there arenon-streamed assets present.  Do you wish to change configuration to use FULL Download?</p><p>How did the launchpad change to streaming?  I abhor streaming as it causes unnecessary lag.</p></blockquote>

[TSR-MattG]

<p><cite>Tigress wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>two threads, i dont know where to post.  it isn't ppls AV, its the launcher.  it is CHANGING the default.</p><p><cite>Tigress wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>someone ruined the launcher.  today, i noticed that it was pre-loading the entire game again.  i got this pop up msg:</p><p>Launchpad is configured to use streaming assets but there arenon-streamed assets present.  Do you wish to change configuration to use FULL Download?</p><p>How did the launchpad change to streaming?  I abhor streaming as it causes unnecessary lag.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p>There have actually been several people resolved via tickets and a couple on the forums from disabling AV - so this is a real possibility - however, for those experiencing it who've already exhausted that avenue, would you be able to post the contents of your launchpad.ini file please?</p>

[Notask]

<p>I noticed that even though it says it's downloading into your EverQuest 2 directory. It is actually downloading your game into a new directory. For example for me it's downloading into my public directory that is being shared by 4 other computers......</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Network-->Name-PC--->Users---->Public-->Sony Online Entertaiment--->>Ect.. Ect..</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"> </p><p>It's downloading in another directoy it's not suppose to be! How do we stop it?</p><hr /><p>Why did the launcher decide to start downloading the entire game to a newdirectory even though it's selected for the program path below? O yea, I called tech supprt and the response I got was, "It's validating your install." LOL... no help..</p><p>C:Program Data Sony Online Entertainment Insatlled Games EverQuest 2</p><p> How I found this out was I went to EverQuest2.com and downloaded the Free to Play streaming client. I then ran the setup program as admin and I could not pick my Eq2 directory to repair // reinstall. It gave me that screwed up directory name and it would not let me change it to my original directory in the C:Program Data ....EverQuset2..</p><p>I guess we just need to give tech support some time to fix the problem. So far in the past hour 3 guild mates are having the same issue. This needs to be put on PRIORITY.</p><p>Thanks. </p>

[Nefa]

<p>i had this happen. ended up re in stalling it was fine. until yesterday. now getting message of changing it to streaming "yes, no, cancel" . i keep hitting cancel and i am playing. afraid to touch anything. it is not my computer, it is not AV.. sony please fix this</p><p>thanks</p>

[Ex_Venia]

<p>[Settings]digestURL=http://manifest.patch.station.sony.com/patch/sha/manifest/launchpad/lp4/live/lp-eq2-full.sha.soeappName=EverQuest IIappIcon=EQII.icoid=eq2width=917height=638options =full:0</p><p>This is after running the EQ2_Full.exe to attempt to convert it back myself and "pre-loading" 14Gb worth of assets for over 6 hours.  The launch pad still gives me the error code "you have streaming assets, do you want to convert to Full"?  and when you select yes it asks to restart the launcher .  The only positive thing that came out of the 6 hour pre-load is that it is no longer attempting to stream (at this moment) in-game.............</p><p>ETA: my previous launchpad.ini, which initially gave me the error read:</p><p><span ><p style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #d2c5a9; background-color: #221f1c;">options=tcg:1,full:1</p></span></p>

[Laretha]

<p>my Lanchpad.ini</p><p>[Settings]digestURL=http://manifest.patch.station.sony.com/patch/sha/manifest/launchpad/lp4/live/lp-eq2-full.sha.soeappName=EverQuest IIappIcon=EQII.icoid=eq2width=917height=638options =tcg:1,full:1</p><p>lar</p>

[Gervon]

<p>Same issues here, I was playing EQ as usual today. I just set up for some Zones, I rebooted and when i came back in, I was not prompted about any errors this time, however I went into the Streaming mode. This has happened to quite a few of my guild mates the last few days. Its almost like a virus or something, its hitting people at different times in different situations. For me, the launcher started creating a new folder in C:UsersPublic . So on my normal laptop I checked the files, and sure enough the launcher created a folder C:UsersPublicSonyonlineentertainmenteverquest ...</p><p>This just started happening now on this laptop that i am on right now, however this one stops at a certain percentage, around 34 % and will not dowload anymore then that. I checked this C:UsersPublic area and there is still no folder in it for EQII. I have seen a few people state that its AV or something to that effect, however, why would it start tonight, when i playe dall day today, I have been playing trouble free since October. Why did it just hit random people it seems since January. This is obviously a Launcher Error. ?Here is my launcher INI info. Hope it helps. I also attatched a Launcher log. To see if anyone can see any difference from my log in earlier wich basically is the first bit you see, to the last 2 logins where it started Streaming Live. I did nothing more then just reboot and come back to the game. My first logins I was fine, bu the last 2 is where the Streaming started and I could not end it.</p><p>[Settings]digestURL=http://manifest.patch.station.sony.com/patch/sha/manifest/launchpad/lp4/live/lp-eq2-ext.sha.soeappName=EverQuest IIappIcon=EQII.icoid=eq2width=917height=638options =full:0</p><p>**** Starting at Mon Feb 27 22:13:56 2012 with version 4.0.0.323  ****[Console] launchpad.js?v=388(37<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> : CancelTouchTimer()[Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event29) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event9) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_complete (event31) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_ready (event32) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: eula_shown (event27) [Console] launchpad.js?v=388(37<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> : CancelTouchTimer()[Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: eula_fetching (event24) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: eula_accepted (event2<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> [Console] launchpad.js?v=388(583) : [*******] lpPrepareForLaunch: [object Object][Console] launchpad.js?v=388(714) : in lpHandleUnAuthLogin[Console] launchpad.js?v=388(37<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> : CancelTouchTimer()[Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: login_complete (event23) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_launching (event33) **** Starting at Mon Feb 27 23:07:47 2012 with version 4.0.0.323  ****[Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event29) [Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event9) [Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_complete (event31) [Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_ready (event32) **** Starting at Mon Feb 27 23:13:26 2012 with version 4.0.0.323  ****[Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event29) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event9) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_complete (event31) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_ready (event32) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: view_options (event10)</p>

[Gervon]

<p>I think I see the change.</p><p>**** Starting at Mon Feb 27 22:13:56 2012 with version 4.0.0.323  ****[Console] launchpad.js?v=388(37<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /> : CancelTouchTimer()[Console]<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724)</strong></span> : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event29) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event9) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_complete (event31) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_ready (event32) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: eula_shown (event27) [Console] launchpad.js?v=388(37<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /> : CancelTouchTimer()[Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: eula_fetching (event24) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: eula_accepted (event2<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /> [Console] launchpad.js?v=388(583) : [*******] lpPrepareForLaunch: [object Object][Console] launchpad.js?v=388(714) : in lpHandleUnAuthLogin[Console] launchpad.js?v=388(37<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /> : CancelTouchTimer()[Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: login_complete (event23) [Console] ?t=26791&options=tcg:1,full:1(724) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_launching (event33) **** Starting at Mon Feb 27 23:07:47 2012 with version 4.0.0.323  ****[Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event29) [Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event9) [Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_complete (event31) [Console] ?t=56414&options=tcg:1,full:1(734) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_ready (event32) **** Starting at Mon Feb 27 23:13:26 2012 with version 4.0.0.323  ****[Console] <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">?t=99557&options=full:0(730)</span> </strong>: OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event29) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_start (event9) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_dl_complete (event31) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: game_ready (event32) [Console] ?t=99557&options=full:0(730) : OMN Event for visitor None: view_options (event10)</p><p> What is the Difference between <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">full:0</span></strong> and <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">tcg:1,full:1 </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">I noticed the person above me had the tcg:1,full:1in there ini file and I did not I had the full:0 . Thats what I noticed as a difference between me streaming and not streaming in my log file times</span></strong></p>

[Gervon]

<p><strong>Finaly had the Full error pop up again. </strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Launchpad is configured to use streaming assets but there are non-streamed assets present. Do you wish to change configuration to use FULL Download</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Yes No Cancel</span></strong></p><p><strong>I was canceling wich ended up chanding me to a streaming mode. However this time I hit yes. </strong></p><p><strong>If you get this error message choose YES. This will solve your Streaming issue. however if you have chosen No or canceled enough like me, it will start doing a live stream mode. I cant tell you how to reset it to FULL download.</strong></p><p><strong>Question to EQII and sony, why did this error pop up in the first place, and only on random computers so far??</strong></p>

[Laretha]

<p>Well I am still stuffed after 2 down loads and doing all they suggest has not changed.  I cant even get into the game now into the 2nd day.  Another in my guild is having the same issue.</p>

[Ex_Venia]

<p>....and now the launcher wants to re-install the whole freakin game..again.... and will not let me bypass the launcher.  Fun times <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>ETA.... my launchpad.ini today reads:</p><p>[Settings]digestURL=http://manifest.patch.station.sony.com/patch/sha/manifest/launchpad/lp4/live/lp-eq2-full.sha.soeappName=EverQuest IIappIcon=EQII.icoid=eq2width=917height=638options =tcg:1,full:1</p>

[Laretha]

<p>Well I logged a ticket to SoE 2 days ago to get help and yet to get a reply any Idea how long does it take to get a reply from them.</p><p>Its been 2 days and I cant get into the game?</p>

[Neobix]

<p><cite>Laretha wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Well I logged a ticket to SoE 2 days ago to get help and yet to get a reply any Idea how long does it take to get a reply from them.</p><p>Its been 2 days and I cant get into the game?</p></blockquote><p>Im pretty sure the devs are too busy adjusting their stuff to ProSiebenSat.1 to have time to bother with this tiny issue. Because that's what it is - a tiny issue. Until you start canceling accounts they will not even blink at this.</p><p>I have the same problem ofc, but I already canceled my sub. For now I can bypass the launcher using Everquest2.exe, but as soon as I start the game through the launcher it starts the streaming crap. I even let it stream the entire game while playing once and yet it started over the next time I started the game. So right now all we can do is to stick with the crappy streaming or not play at all. Imo there are enough other fun games out there with way less bugs to bother with this one.</p>

[Nefa]

<p>i am still having issues, not yet resolved totally, but i use the "live chat" feature. wait time is reasonable. it is available 10 to 7PM PST. try it.</p>

[Laretha]

<p>Thanks for the suggeston but Im an Aussie and that time just dont work</p><p> Eionn</p>

[Ex_Venia]

<p>Well, my fix was a clean re-install.  Uninstall->registry cleanup->Install EQ2_full->all night download.</p>

[TSR-MattG]

<p>We're continuing to look in to this but to avoid confusion I'm going to lock this thread up in favor of the one we've got going on general tech. Be sure to post any info you have/watch for updates in this thread:</p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=514292">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=514292</a></p>