MakoMako

I never use a shortcut. I usually just open the folder in question and run the hcinstall.exe as it auto-runs the launcher. Been this way from day 1. For some reason it just defaults to the wrong architecture now. And if going through that for a week means there's a solution to help someone else with it, then it was worth it.

Matter was resolved in a ticket I opened. Thanks for GM Manga's help. Solution was that the launcher was failing to launch City of Heroes in the proper architecture and was stuck to 32-bit with no option for 64-bit. If anyone else runs into this problem, the solution appears to be launching the respective launcher in the file command path from the City of Heroes directory /bin/win32 or /bin/win64. That resolved my issue pretty quick. I've simply been using the executable for the Homecoming launcher off the forum until now. It's weird it got stuck only after this last update.

If it is, I'm not sure how to check or rectify that. As it's not clear what files are being written to at the precise moment of crash. The debug still stops exactly at "loading Zowie locations". Actually, what might help is if someone could just start a normal game with the debug console up and let me know exactly what is loaded after the zowies? Maybe whatever starts directly after zowies that is what's borked on my end. Or something in that area. I'm going to submit a ticket through the forum support link and upload the crash report I made today. Thanks for your help you've provided so far.

I don't think it's the case here. The profile I'm using is the sole profile and admin.

Also my apologies. I should've clarified this problem only started today directly after servers updated. I was able to log in this morning and yesterday without issue. This only started as of 12:35 EST today. And I can cite that time precisely because of the crash log timestamp.

1- Yes. I assure you that a lack of permission not the problem here. Could you explain how you come to the conclusion how the new update would make this an issue, though? Maybe if the update affects the read/write process somehow, it could isolate what I'm dealing with. 2- Since the start of the problem to now, I've lost count of how many times I've rebooted. This includes two cold boots from shutdown due to moving my laptop from one location to another to test different internet settings.

No good. After logging in exactly one time I'm right back to square one with instantaneous crash after loading. Exact same symptoms. It looks like after a full reinstall I can log in at least one time and after that the game just crashes on character selection. I've sent another crash report.

Completely reinstalled from scratch then moved over my backed up settings files. Everything seems to be working again. Total uninstall/reinstall seemed to do the trick that verification couldn't. Thank you!

Yes, I did. I am posting here mostly because I noticed nobody else mentioned anything yet. In case it's widespread or if maybe my crash log doesn't help. I'm not confident it has anything to do with "Zowies" merely mentioned that's precisely where the debug report stops so for all I know it's whatever comes -after- that's problematic. For all I know it could be that it's simply failing to load zowies properly but that seems to be a strange thing to crash the whole game. (I've seen stranger, though...) I'll try to install a fresh copy and see if that changes anything. For record, I'm on Windows 11.

Problem is simple, consistent and make it legit impossible for me to play. Log-in is accepted, I select a character. Game enters loading screen and proceeds to crash abruptly due to an "Unexpected Error". I've sent several crash reports through the day but I'm curious if anyone else has had this happen. Here's the troubleshooting I've gone through. 1- Full system reboot. No change. 2- Reverified City of Heroes files through launch. No issues found. 3- Reinstalled core files. No change. 4- Started game without Hardware Acceleration. Nothing. 5- Greatly reduced graphics settings. Nothing. 6- Changed internet connections thrice over. Two Wi-Fi, one ethernet. No noticeable change. 7- Deactivated all mods, even though all I had were sound and texture mods. Don't think this was a problem to begin with but still no change. I decided to run the debug console while logging in, and these are the final lines I get... I don't know what Zowies are, but "0 zowies found" is precisely when I crash on load every single time. There is nothing that is recorded past this point. Is this a known issue or do I have something borked after the update today?

There's actually more than that. Notably you forgot Raine Heartfall, who belonged to one of my closest friends @Perfidus. Those names are players that stuck with CoH to the end and passed away. Most of which, at least, died before being able to come back home here.

I can say with high confidence you probably just saw someone that hotkeyed a character name to follow their global in the chat.

Considering whatever policy that was on live has no affect here (and also literally the first I've heard of that almost a decade later), I think I'll put a higher faith in Devs actively acknowledging the issue, at least.

Honestly, I'm not even concerned about swiping the name that aggressively. I'm sincerely willing to pay that player for the name because I want it -that- bad, so at the very least some way to connect their in game global to some sort of out-of-game E-mail would be appreciated. (Even if I can't actually see their E-mail address) Alas, I'll deal with it! The fact that there's a name squatting policy to-be-enacted in the first place already makes this more promising than CoH was on live.

Is there any way to find the forum name with only an in-game global?