SpicierMeatball

Based on my flow I think the issue was originally a very out of date video driver in conjunction with the latest update. Setting Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\CoH\screenx to 800 and Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\CoH\screeny to 0 in the registry forced the client to reset the video settings to default, which fixed the issue.

Thanks for your help Number Six.

HAHA I WIN. Set the X and Y to invalid values, game client detected this and reset them, and now 64 bit client works.

Set resolution to 1024 x 768 and disabled full screen, error message went away but behavior returned.

Is there a config file I can edit to set the display mode, or a command line switch I can add in options?

After numerous updates I got in via safemode, tweaked the graphics settings and then backed out to try the 64 bit client:

Nuked fonts.pigg, it brought it down again, pressed play and same behavior.

gonna nuke the piggs and see what happens when it copies them down again

[12/4/2019 12:37:36 AM] Application quitting [12/4/2019 12:37:38 AM] Loading application. [12/4/2019 12:37:38 AM] Load application complete. [12/4/2019 12:37:39 AM] Started patching [12/4/2019 12:37:39 AM] Attempting to download Manifest file "http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml" [12/4/2019 12:37:39 AM] Manifest downloaded successfully, starting to process it. [12/4/2019 12:37:39 AM] Starting self-patch process. [12/4/2019 12:37:39 AM] Self patching process complete. [12/4/2019 12:37:39 AM] Loading Web Browser URL to: "https://patch.savecoh.com/homecoming.html" [12/4/2019 12:37:40 AM] Finished patching. [12/4/2019 12:37:41 AM] User clicked to open Options window [12/4/2019 12:37:44 AM] Revalidation process started [12/4/2019 12:37:44 AM] Started patching [12/4/2019 12:37:44 AM] Attempting to download Manifest file "http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml" [12/4/2019 12:37:44 AM] Manifest downloaded successfully, starting to process it. [12/4/2019 12:37:44 AM] Starting self-patch process. [12/4/2019 12:37:44 AM] Self patching process complete. [12/4/2019 12:38:02 AM] Finished patching. [12/4/2019 12:38:05 AM] User clicked play with the following profile: Homecoming (64-Bit)

Where is the font stored you think?

Verified multiple times and reloaded fresh into a fresh directory. Finished windows updates and retried, same result. I could try deleting fonts and disabling antivirus?

What version of Tequila?

Running windows updates.

Updated to latest nvidia driver, no change.

Found a crash file: "id": "7z05qcyap5qr3w0gch7335j27g", "pid": 7160, "name": "cityofheroes", "build": { "arch": "x86-64", "platform": "windows", "pipeline": 548, "branch": "release/homecoming", "commit": "14ded241e9fb7d800b0d084c2d687cc3019699ce" }, "crash": { "crashmode": 641, "stacktrace": [ "0x7ffe9138f67a", "0x7ffe942a4af2", "0x7ffe9428c6e6", "0x7ffe942a120f", "0x7ffe9426a299", "0x7ffe9429fe7e", "0x7ffe89eec819", "0x7ff6969b6798", "0x7ff6969b7812", "0x7ff6969bce6b", "0x7ff6969bcb7e", "0x7ff6969bb1cf", "0x7ff6969bbf97", "0x7ff696943b4d", "0x7ff696943e83", "0x7ff696943d53", "0x7ff69694f06b", "0x7ff69694f375", "0x7ff696baa044", "0x7ff696bab8df", "0x7ff696b617bc", "0x7ff696957d39", "0x7ff69695d64f", "0x7ff6969cde3e", "0x7ff696ce0136", "0x7ff696e6ac62", "0x7ffe92c57bd4", "0x7ffe9426cee1" ], "exceptionaddr": "0x7ffe89eec819", "base": "0x7ff6967a0000" }, "internal": { "exceptionthread": 9156, "exceptioninfo": "0x264f0f5e00", "blackbox": "0x7ff69742d660" } }

Symptom is pressing play, loading bar appears, icon for game appears on bar, flashes orange and then vanishes.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID> <Level>4</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-12-04T04:14:12.005501400Z" /> <EventRecordID>9253</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>BLAH BLAH</Computer> <Security /> </System> - <EventData> <Data>1212552733330299415</Data> <Data>1</Data> <Data>APPCRASH</Data> <Data>Not available</Data> <Data>0</Data> <Data>homecoming.exe</Data> <Data>1.0.0.1</Data> <Data>5dd304cb</Data> <Data>homecoming.exe</Data> <Data>1.0.0.1</Data> <Data>5dd304cb</Data> <Data>c0000005</Data> <Data>005e0c7c</Data> <Data /> <Data /> <Data>\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERDBAB.tmp.dmp \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERDC96.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERDCC6.tmp.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERDCC4.tmp.csv \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERDCE5.tmp.txt</Data> <Data>\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_homecoming.exe_c054f0e9a76f53e435421f9dda04b6dc69a29eb_4d9de6f6_033e50a8-20b5-4c8a-ae88-e62ffb14a4a9</Data> <Data /> <Data>0</Data> <Data>479e23fc-3bfa-4f04-867d-9bdeac163b5b</Data> <Data>268435456</Data> <Data>8a8afec9edcaa10f40d3da495d94da17</Data> <Data>0</Data> </EventData> </Event>

Fresh load against Tequila 1.0.0.20 in a fresh directory, evenviewer shows: - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Application Error" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID> <Level>2</Level> <Task>100</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-12-04T04:14:10.403905100Z" /> <EventRecordID>9252</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>BLAH BLAH</Computer> <Security /> </System> - <EventData> <Data>homecoming.exe</Data> <Data>1.0.0.1</Data> <Data>5dd304cb</Data> <Data>homecoming.exe</Data> <Data>1.0.0.1</Data> <Data>5dd304cb</Data> <Data>c0000005</Data> <Data>005e0c7c</Data> <Data>171c</Data> <Data>01d5aa593a73b914</Data> <Data>D:\City of Heroes\homecoming.exe</Data> <Data>D:\City of Heroes\homecoming.exe</Data> <Data>479e23fc-3bfa-4f04-867d-9bdeac163b5b</Data> <Data /> <Data /> </EventData> </Event>

Glad to hear this is a glitch!

Sure its totally possible that there where 1000+ bids at 554 or less, and then on the morning of a server reset, someone added a bid for 555 x 4 and got lucky because it just so happened that someone listed 4 recipes at 555 or less. Recipes that are extremely hard to come by, and well known to be worth 10m each. That is a thing that could have happened.

This is a free game provided by wonderful people and I am grateful to have it. Thank you. That said, this would seem a bit blatant? If it is what I think it is, it doesn't diminish my enjoyment of the game that much, just a little disappointing. If its not, happy to be wrong.