Zoning In Screen Freeze

[Cam_Neely]

Over the last few days, this has been happening to me.

When my character does something that requires a loading screen (ie Zoning into an area, logging on and entering a quest) some times the screen stays at the loading screen, the bar does not fill, I can use voice chat and talk to my party, then after about 90 seconds the server DCs me.

For example last night, I tried to zone into Red Fens with my group to run an Epic. The whole party got into Red Fens, but the above happen to me trying to get in. I restarted the game, tried to log into the same character, and it got stuck at the loading screen. I restarted the game, logged into a Different character fine, then switched back to the first character and loaded in House K fine. Walked into the bar, and zoned in fine, then got stuck again going into Red Fens. Restarted my computer same issue, so we went to do BoB. Zoned into the Market place, Searing Hights and the quest perfectly fine.

I've had this same issue entering The Church and The Cult, logging in to characters randomly. Seems to be limited to one character or one instance at a time.

Was there a change recently that might have done this? Thoughts? Its a real pain!

[Cam_Neely]

So no one else has experienced this? If not, then it seems like it might be on my side and Ill going though the typical stuff, virus scan, search and destroy, scan disk and defrag. Any other ideas?

[Tres_Tacos]

Crashing on zoning to a new area is a common problem, first thing to check is to make sure all your drivers are up to date.

[Dulcimerist]

I used to get zoning in problems like this, too; but messed around with settings until they mostly went away. (I still have this problem if I switch characters a few times and then take a character through a zoning in screen.

I can't exactly remember what I did, but I know I went into the drivers setting of my graphics card and set everything in there to application-controlled in order to prevent conflicts. There's also a setting in the DDO graphics properties that says it does something to make things better when trying to draw many players on the screen at the same time. That setting might be the key.

[Cam_Neely]

Thanks for the help, I did check my graphic card, and it was all set to application control. I messed around with the draw distance, and turning my graphics down, and that did not seem to do anything. I uninstalled and redownloaded, tried DirectX9 and a few other things with no change.

I did open a ticket with Turbine support, but nothing from them in 48 hours (might not have 24/7 support for some reason?)

It seems to be only with specific toons I have and specific areas. Ive been keeping a log to see if I notice a pattern, but as off right now I cant get on either my TR or my capped toon. Sux