Slow Character Retrieval

[krj12]

I remember seeing a post about this weeks ago, maybe on reddit....

Is there any plan on speeding up the character list?  It currently takes 2-3 minutes to bring up my characters ( on Excelsior ).  I don't remember it being like this on live,

Could it be something as simple as adding an index on a table?

 

Seems like this could be a major turnoff for new players checking the game out.

 

Edited October 13, 2019 by krj12

[Apparition]

Do you use Windows 7?

[Razor Cure]

Win7 here. It doesnt take 2-3 mins for me, but its a good 15-30 on average.

[krj12]

I do use win 7.

 

[EmmySky]

In on Windows 10 and since Friday its been slow pulling up character list.  Normally its maybe 5 seconds at most  but this weekend its up to and sometimes beyond 30 seconds.  I think server load has to have something to do with it since I havent had this issue in over a month since I updated my windows and graphics.

[Apparition]

3 hours ago, krj12 said:

I do use win 7.

 

 

The slow character list retrieval is a known issue with Windows 7.  Since Windows 7 is EOL in two and a half months anyway, I doubt it's on their priority list of issues to fix.

[krj12]

Hmm, there are a lot of people still on windows 7, and considering the overall crappiness of win10, probably wont upgrade. 

I know I wont until forced to when I buy a new system.

 

[Erydanus]

The slow Win 7 reading of the character list started around the time the queue code was added. If I'm waiting on the character list to load and I try to back out it actually says "do you want to lose your place in the queue" still. Actually before I took a break for the summer one of the devs had found that mention noteworthy and was going to follow up with a couple of us who were discussing this in another thread after checking into something, but I never got a ping about it.

 

Yes, W7 is EOL but I'm not planning to upgrade my gaming machine to Win 10.

 

Ah, and I found the original/main thread on this topic:

 

Edited October 22, 2019 by Erydanus

[ShardWarrior]

I had the same issue on my older laptop.  Running the free upgrade to Windows 10 (which still works) fixed this for me. 

[Erydanus]

On ‎10‎/‎22‎/‎2019 at 10:11 AM, ShardWarrior said:

I had the same issue on my older laptop.  Running the free upgrade to Windows 10 (which still works) fixed this for me. 

Of course it did. It's a Windows 7 problem, specifically, introduced with the queue code.

[ShardWarrior]

1 hour ago, Erydanus said:

Of course it did. It's a Windows 7 problem, specifically, introduced with the queue code.

Yes, I know that.  That's why I was confirming what was said previously in the thread.