DDO freezing up after Friday's hotfix

[Catteras]

Prior to Friday's hotfix I had no issues with the game. Worked just fine on my machine.

After Friday's hotfix, the game is freezing/locking up on my constantly. This seems to average happening about once for every hour I play. I'll be in the middle of a quest, and everything will freeze on the screen and the audio usually starts going loopy (stuttering, odd noise). If someone is speaking over voice chat, I've noticed the audio stutter-repeats the last syllable the person spoke. If I'm able to pull up the task manager, DDO is shown as unresponsive and I need to force quit. About half the time, my system is locked up and I can't even get the task manager on screen. Then I just need to restart my computer, or log off my user.

Has anyone else run into something like this since the hotfix? (And if anyone knows something I could try to fix it, that'd be great.

[sebastianosmith]

Has anyone else run into something like this since the hotfix? (And if anyone knows something I could try to fix it, that'd be great.

Yes. Over the weekend four out of five players in our static group had the game crash at least once in a two hour period, usually resulting in a black screen/sound loop requiring a hard reset. All of us are running very different hardware which was functioning flawlessly the week prior. As far as I know, there were no radical hardware or software changes in the interim; the latest hotfix being our only commonality.

I wish I could tell you how to resolve this issue, but I simply don't have enough data. It is most annoying and I do sympathise.

[Catteras]

Yes. Over the weekend four out of five players in our static group had the game crash at least once in a two hour period, usually resulting in a black screen/sound loop requiring a hard reset. All of us are running very different hardware which was functioning flawlessly the week prior. As far as I know, there were no radical hardware or software changes in the interim; the latest hotfix being our only commonality.

Nice. So it sounds like they broke something during the last hotfix. Good to know I'm not alone. Maybe they'll fix this soon. (And whatever they break when they fix it, hopefully it won't be as bad.)

[xeonotrix]

Nice. So it sounds like they broke something during the last hot fix. Good to know I'm not alone. Maybe they'll fix this soon. (And whatever they break when they fix it, hopefully it won't be as bad.)

I also got the freezing loop screen twice since the hotfix. Never happened before. I did a complete re install of the game. So far i have not gotten the problem again. (knock on wood)

[Seikojin]

I was going to say, delete the dat files and repatch. Or defrag the game with the dat defragger.

[Catteras]

I also got the freezing loop screen twice since the hotfix. Never happened before. I did a complete re install of the game. So far i have not gotten the problem again. (knock on wood)

This seemed to work. I uninstalled the game, and then reinstalled it. During a three-hour game session, my game didn't crash once.

[Uska]

On Khyber yes it made it pretty much unplayable so I gave up and Saturday I went to the ren faire and that night to the Opera Eugene Onegia and Sunday to the faire again hopefully play will go smoothly this week

[MatrimDaved]

I'm having the same Issue with the game freezing.
I have tried re-installing the client and I still crashes.


Has anyone found a solution?

P.S. This is happening on Cannith!

[Gljosh]

I am having the same problem on Orien. I don't have a lot of time to play this game normally and having it crash repeatedly makes it even worse. This has caused me to cancel my VIP. I am getting tired of paying for a game that breaks after every other hotfix. I already re-installed after Update 24.

[visibleman]

Argo.

I get this (or a similar problem) regularly. Started about 2 months ago. Doesn't happen all the time and strangely, I have never had it happen during a Raid.

It plays ok for a while then sudd...
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...zes for a couple of seconds.
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It gets progressively worse, until it crashes compl...



Its making the game unplayable. Doesn't seem to be affecting other games.

My PC runs on 2 SSDs, one for Windows and general programs, the other is for Games (and Steam).
CPU is a AMD Phenom 9950 (yeah, I know its old)
No OC
I've tried reinstalling the game.
Replaced the RAM.
Upgraded the firmware on the SSDs.

running out of ideas.

[Stoner81]

1. Disable UAC.
2. Run the game by running TurbineLauncher.exe (on W10 run as Admin).
3. Allow incoming and outgoing traffic in your firewall for TurbineLauncher.exe.

See if that helps.

Stoner81.

[Wierdattacx]

I'm having the same Issue with the game freezing.
I have tried re-installing the client and I still crashes.


Has anyone found a solution?

P.S. This is happening on Cannith!

Same for me. Reinstalled on Cannith and had no improvement.

[Eryhn]

i have the vague impression that since 28.0 already, each instance takes up more RAM ... the amount of character changes or location changes I can go through before I need a client restart due to memory leak on a 4gig system has roughly halfed since 28 hit ... while the numbers I see in task manager did not double as such, currently, I almost always restart client before entering raid, and have to do so far more often during switching multiple toons during i.e invent management ...

[Loromir]

I am getting frequent game freezing episodes...but no crashes yet.

[Warbler]

Same here. Constant DC's. Windows 10, swashbuckler bard/fighter/rogue