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You can try Creamsode from thunderspy. It will download the files for Homecoming as well as other popular CoH servers. If it fails to, let us know and we'll see what we can do to help you.

Check server status and try again if it is up. You can also save your costume and load it again, the button is on the lower right of the costume creator. If you continue to have troubles logging in disable all firewalls, antivirus, and internet security products and try again. There are 2 or 3 different IP addresses you have to hit to go from log in to playing the game. If anyone of them are blocked you can't get in and play.

Try: Turn off your firewalls and try again. Turn off anything like Norton Internet security and try. If it is stored in a folder on your C:\ right click and run as administrator. If I was to guess it's a connection issue. The updates/game are stored at a different IP from the login/authorization server which is a different IP than the map and game servers. I don't know what the current ones are but based on what you are saying I would think there is a failure to reach the authorization server that the game doesn't know how to handle so it's just churning as it retried until you kill the process.

Check in the CoH Audio options and adjust your levels. I've found I need to turn CoH way up compared to other things I do on my PC. If that doesn't work post DXDiag: Click Search DXdiag then run. Post a screen shot of the sound tab or click save all information and copy/paste. That will give us a place to start.

Search for Thunderspy Creamsoda. First couple of links should do it. Windows 7 shouldn't be a problem, the game was built for XP/2000. Router firewall could be an issue. Might need to put exemptions in. Can try shutting it off and see if it lets you through, if so, there is the problem.

As an aside, Windowed mode is the way to go. When CoH was shut down 1080p and better resolutions were not really a thing yet, especially for games. Windows 10 didn't exist as well. Microsoft does a lot of background work to make sure popular games work properly on PC platforms as does NVidia. What they are doing now doesn't take CoH into consideration in the same way they don't take Oregon Trail into consideration. The game is/was dead and they moved on. Playing in windowed mode bypasses some of the graphics related issues at the cost of higher overhead. I would say that there are some configurations where windowed mode will be the only way you can play. I know on my setup if I want resolution greater than 1224x768 I have to play in windowed mode.

Try the following in any order, one at a time: Turn off Windows Firewall then try connecting. If that works you will need to set a rule to allow CoH. I'll have to look at how to do this as CoH isn't doing an install like a normal app. If that doesn't work then disable any antivirus and try. If it works then you need to set up an exemption in your AV to whitelist score.exe and tequila.exe Reverify all the files with Tequila. If that works, problem solved. If not download Creamsoda to a different directory, let it install and manage the game and try it. If it works, the problem is Tequila and your PC not liking it. Just use Creamsoda and play. If you have Norton or McAfee Internet Security or firewall products get rid of them. More trouble than they are worth and are just slowing your system down. They are also hyper-active in blocking MMOs and have been for at least 10 years. When I encounter a computer with those on them and an issue with a particular site or game the first thing I do is turn them off and see if it works. I've seen Norton suddenly decide Amazon and Google are dangerous sites and block them even after a whitelisting and McAfee has gone as fruit loops as it's founder.

If you have placed your CoH folder on your C drive and are playing on a non-administrator account, which it is always the best idea not to be using an admin account to play games, you may need to right click and run Tequila as an administrator regardless of security permissions on the folder. It should ask you for the admin account name and password then. The other option is to relocate the files to your My Documents or Public Documents folders. I would uninstall and reinstall Tequila if you do this. I believe it drops a registry entry that needs to have the proper drive path set up for it to work.

On just CoH or the whole PC?

Hmm... Can both of you click your search icon and type in dxdiag then run the program that pops up. If it asks you to check driver signing, click no. When the green progress bar in the lower left is finished click save information and save the text file. Richnats- email it to me Neural- PM and I'll give you my email address to send it to you. It might be helpful to see what is common between the two systems and compare that to systems I have here not having the issue. Might run across a cause that way.

For future refernece, what fixed it?

Let's do a packet capture. Run Wireshark On the start screen double click the interface that shows activity, it'll look like a heartbeat. This will start a capture. Run CoH and play until disconnect. When it does, go back to Wireshark and click the stop button. 4 Buttons down from the stop button, directly under the word Go is the save button. Click this and save the file. PM me when you got it and how big it is. We'll work out how to get it to me so I can review it. Might be pretty large so may have to use a Dropbox or something to get it. This will show me all the traffic moving in and out of that interface during the capture. It is going to show me this in plaintext unless you connect using SSL or other encryption method. Don't do anything besides CoH that would involve a username or password during the capture or otherwise stuff on the internet you wouldn't want me to see. CoH isn't sending usernames/password by plaintext so it's safe. I won't know any of that information, but other websites...eh, you really don't know until you check them.

It shouldn't, but then at this point I'm tossing around ideas to see if it solves the issue. Might not hurt to uninstall, download a fresh copy and do it again. Just save your costume and customization directories first. Tequila is out of the picture once you are connected, so it really shouldn't affect game play. The Score.exe might have something to do with it.

Try this: https://www.howtogeek.com/404214/how-to-remap-any-controller-to-keyboard-keys-on-windows-and-macos/

I would start by reinstalling the program in a new folder.

Try someone that isn't homecoming. See if it still happens. If it doesn't then we know where the cause lies and can work with that. Right now we need to eliminate everything that isn't a cause to figure out what is. If you feel comfortable with it you can install Wireshark if it still happens. This will run a log of all network activity you can dump to a file and email to me. I can match events there against when the disconnect happens and see if there is some malformed packets or something. If we can work out a time, maybe Sunday, I can run to my office and we set up a remote maintenance session. if I check services and taskmanager I might see something there.

Ping extending out like that at the same time a lot of people are in the area would indicate the server is having issues. A connection only runs at the speed of the slowest point in the line. If the server is responding to too many requests it can't respond to all of them in a timely fashion and becomes a bottleneck.

Right click and run as administrator. Does this solve the issue?

The config files are local. Are you trying to dual box it with 2 instances of the game running at the same time? If so I would try sandboxing the second copy into a VM. Might want to also see if NVidia did a recent driver update that coincides with the issue. If so, do a driver rollback. You can also record a macro that will execute the program and lock in the primary monitor. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4052290/accessories-how-do-i-create-macros

Bonjour is part of the suite that connects and Apple product to Windows. It installs and runs with ITunes. The other is a Microsoft Error and is probably not pertinent to the issue. This is perplexing as there is no indication of a crash or app hangup by Homecoming or Score and there isn't an internet disconnect. Score isn't generating app logs that I can see on my install to look at. If you connect to another CoH server like Virtue or Pliedes does it happen? Just for grins, manually update Windows and your drivers. May be something there that we can't see.

Can you do this: Open search and type in Event You should see the Event Viewer there, open it. On the left hand side you will see Windows Log, click the > to expand it Click Application Log Sort by task category Look for Category (100) and (101). These are kind of a catch all for application errors. 100 is an error and 102 is a hang. Look for ones related to Homecoming.exe and score.exe For example, I just tried to connect to Homecoming while it is down and can see in the General box: Faulting application name: score.exe, version 1.0.0.1, time stamp... If so, copy and paste the dialog in the general box from a couple for me. If this continues this weekend I can schedule a remote session with you and take a look live at what is happening and see if I can troubleshoot it.

Th PC is fine. At worst you turn the graphics down to medium and reduce the draw distance a bit if you have lag issues. Open a command prompt by going to your search and type CMD type in Ping 8.8.8.8 at the prompt and press enter Now press your up arrow and you will see the command show again, leave it there and play CoH. If you disconnect quickly switch to that screen and press enter. If you can't see that (you will see a request timed out message) then we have a network issue. If not it's computer. This is Google's public DNS server. if you live in North America and can't see it your ISP/network is having issues. If we know it's network we need to find where the failure is. What server are you on when this happens? I'll find the IP and we can do a trace route to locate the point of failure. Hoepfully it isn't on Comcast's side, because if it is, I pity your poor damned soul as the devil drives a hard bargain for his favors.

Make sure both DP/HDMI cables are plugged in tight and check the monitor orientation and main display settings. To do that right click on an open area on your desktop and select display settings. Use identify and the diagram to make sure 1/2 are in the correct spots. You can drag and drop them if they are not. The monitor you want CoH to stay on needs to have the Make This my Main Display box checked. If it still occurs, pull that big nasty GTX out of there and let the onboard DP handle it for a bit and see if it recurs. If it does, reinstall the drivers.

Having run CoH back in the day on a 756k DSL line with lag only during events like the Rikiti Invasion I can, with almost 100% confidence, tell you it isn't your network/internet unless you are on dial-up or running an LTE service with throttling or poor LoS. Diagnosing the other side requires more info. Open your start>run/search and type dxdiag and run it. Select save all information and attach the text file here and I'll take a look at it.

If you post a screen shot of what you see I'll try to post a walk through. I general you hit the options button, graphics, click windows mode. Sometimes you also need to do the following: Locate Score.exe Right click and select properties Compatibility tab Check Disable Fullscreen optimizations Click Apply Click OK Test If not solved go back to properties Compatibility tab Click Change high DPI settings Check both boxes Click OK Click Apply Click OK