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Hi.
I've posted some similar questions at the CoH official boards and have
gotten some good suggestions about some problems I'm having with the
game, but I thought I'd try here, too.
Basically, I just bought and installed the game. It patched without
incident and I was able to start it up and create a new character. When
I finished the tutorial area, though, and clicked on Atlas Park as my
starting area, the game locked up and then crashed. I restarted it and
at the character selection screen, I saw that my character was supposed
to be in Atlas Park. But when I clicked on "Enter Paragon City" -- the
game locked up again, and I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL my way out of the game.
This has gone on for days now. I've tried getting a character to go to
Galaxy City, but no luck. I've tried different servers, different
archetypes, different graphics settings, but cannot ever get into the
game. Again, I can play the tutorial all the live-long day, but I can't
ever leave that area if I want to see the character again.
Tech Support has suggested the obvious fixes -- uninstalling,
reinstalling, disabling all background programs, disabling firewalls,
opening ports, disabling Anti-Virus software, etc. I've tried all of
those things. I'm on a NAT DSL modem/router and there's not a way for
me to really open up those ports. Furthermore, absolutely every other
game I've tried to play online has never given me trouble, using this
same set-up of modem, firewall, etc.
And I can't find anybody else that's ever had this same trouble. I've
had a couple of people tell me that their loading screen sometimes gets
stuck, and they have various methods for fixing that problem. But I
haven't seen anybody talk about never being able to load anything but
the tutorial section.
Does this seem extremely odd to anybody else? Does anybody have any
idea what might be going on? I'm not especially computer-savvy, but I'm
not completely in the dark, either. But this had got me completely
stumped. Obviously tech support is stumped, too -- I mean, they don't
even respond for days on end, and when they do, it's usually to say,
"Oh, just try turning off the firewall again and see if it works this
time -- cross your fingers!"
I'm just really fed up and sad about this. I'm feeling like I've wasted
$20 on the game, and I'm starting to feel glad that I didn't spend
$39... or even more than $20. So any help or insight (or sympathy) you
can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi.
I've posted some similar questions at the CoH official boards and have
gotten some good suggestions about some problems I'm having with the
game, but I thought I'd try here, too.
Basically, I just bought and installed the game. It patched without
incident and I was able to start it up and create a new character. When
I finished the tutorial area, though, and clicked on Atlas Park as my
starting area, the game locked up and then crashed. I restarted it and
at the character selection screen, I saw that my character was supposed
to be in Atlas Park. But when I clicked on "Enter Paragon City" -- the
game locked up again, and I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL my way out of the game.
This has gone on for days now. I've tried getting a character to go to
Galaxy City, but no luck. I've tried different servers, different
archetypes, different graphics settings, but cannot ever get into the
game. Again, I can play the tutorial all the live-long day, but I can't
ever leave that area if I want to see the character again.
Tech Support has suggested the obvious fixes -- uninstalling,
reinstalling, disabling all background programs, disabling firewalls,
opening ports, disabling Anti-Virus software, etc. I've tried all of
those things. I'm on a NAT DSL modem/router and there's not a way for
me to really open up those ports. Furthermore, absolutely every other
game I've tried to play online has never given me trouble, using this
same set-up of modem, firewall, etc.
And I can't find anybody else that's ever had this same trouble. I've
had a couple of people tell me that their loading screen sometimes gets
stuck, and they have various methods for fixing that problem. But I
haven't seen anybody talk about never being able to load anything but
the tutorial section.
Does this seem extremely odd to anybody else? Does anybody have any
idea what might be going on? I'm not especially computer-savvy, but I'm
not completely in the dark, either. But this had got me completely
stumped. Obviously tech support is stumped, too -- I mean, they don't
even respond for days on end, and when they do, it's usually to say,
"Oh, just try turning off the firewall again and see if it works this
time -- cross your fingers!"
I'm just really fed up and sad about this. I'm feeling like I've wasted
$20 on the game, and I'm starting to feel glad that I didn't spend
$39... or even more than $20. So any help or insight (or sympathy) you
can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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