jdeshano.7592 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 I wonder this too due to some of the posters. My alt accounts only have 4-5 characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glass Hand.7306 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nasbit.3240 said: I wonder if its the amount of characters on an account.  I think it is related to the number of characters in some fashion. I have four accounts, one with max characters. It is only this one account that has the loading problem. That also suggests to me that the idea it is internet latency is very unlikely. I had no problems loading maps before the patch, and now since the patch I have problems specific to one account. Looking at Task Manager I can see the memory for each of my 4 accounts when running at about 2.5 GB and 24% load. When the I try to change maps on the account that has a large number characters the load measurement drops to 9% and does not recover, ever. While this is going on I did a latency check using a 3rd party tool. 24ms to NYC. There is something wrong and it isn't internet latency.  Edited March 30, 2022 by Glass Hand.7306 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crepuscular.9047 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 the patch release about 2hr ago removed longcat, but did not fix this issue we been having 😒 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trouble.3562 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 i have 69 toons on my main, its destroyed honestly. I barely see half of them in loading screen. Â my alt has 6-10. all good there. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krzysztof.5973 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Horrendously long load times are still not fixed.https://i.imgur.com/cQoEXHL.png And when it's done I can't even do anything cause my character did not load... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewenewes.4176 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Can sort of confirm. I have tried to create three new characters since the patch. The first was done after logging out to character selection screen from an existing character. For the other two attempts I closed the client completely and then chose character creation as the first thing after launching the game again. The character creation itself works but after choosing a name and clicking the accept button there is no intro cinematic nor a loading screen with the usual lovely art.  The screen simply stays black indefinitely and plays the EoD menu music. The only option to end this is to force-close the client. Pressing enter, space, escape, or any other button combination (except for ALT + F4) does nothing. When launching the game again the newly created characters were there and I could log into them. They were in their respective racial tutorials as per the norm. So the only thing that doesn't work at least on my end is the first time login into said character and the display of the intro cinematic.  Out of curiosity I have let the game run in the background while on this past-character-creation backscreen, just to see if it eventually plays the cinematic or loads into the tutorial zone on its own. After twenty minutes the situation remained unchanged. Black screen, menu music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezuzel.4987 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nasbit.3240 said: I wonder if its the amount of characters on an account. Most people here stated they have a decent amount of characters. Sure some say its caused by EoD, cause alt-accounts without work fine - but I bet the alt-accounts don't have more characters than fit on the char-screen? @mezuzel.4987May I ask how many characters your alt accounts have? (The alt account, that run in this issue as well) Main account - HOT/POF/EOD - 30 characters - experienced the bug multiple times Alt account - HOT/POF - 14 characters (which do fit on the same screen) - experienced the bug once Third account - HOT/POF - 3 characters - not bugged Edited March 31, 2022 by mezuzel.4987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streamstrider.2079 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) The first character I load after logging in works fine. As soon as I swap characters, I get an extremely long load time, and some things just never load. This screenshot (https://ibb.co/fps7c6p) is how it has looked for the past 10 to 15 minutes. It doesn't appear at all to be an internet issue, as all actions I am able to perform have been pretty seamless. No skill lag or anything of the sort. Graphics/textures are not loading properly. I have gotten varying degrees of severity every time I switch characters, but the core elements of the issue remain. This started occurring today after the patch. For reference, I have 40+ characters and all expansions.  Edited March 31, 2022 by Streamstrider.2079 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CattivoUomo.7198 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Agreeing with most everyone here. Seems to affect those who have numerous characters. Full complement here. Only thing that changed from Monday to Tuesday was the game patch for SAB, etc. Game repair has no effect. Support, not much help either.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Leota.5849 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 I only have one account. I have 70 characters, and I have HoT, PoF, and EoD. When I log in and select a character to play, everything works fine. It is when I switch characters that I have problems, like everyone else in this thread. This all began yesterday with the SAB update. I highly doubt this has anything to do with my internet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Lana.2506 Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 2 hours ago, jdeshano.7592 said: Well I went through a whole thing with Support. They had me download and run HiJackThis! first, went through all of their directions, responded back with the uploaded log information. Next response I was to provide some more client side information and to download another tool called WinMTR and to run that for awhile with the game running. So I followed all of their directions again and did everything I was suppose to. Uploaded file to them. The response this time is telling me that my issue is caused by high latency according to all the logged information I sent them, and to contact my ISP to have them work out my issues here. Now I'm really confused. I have multiple alt accounts, with only HoT and PoF expansions, and all of them are running fine, I can switch characters fine, SSD loads them up quick. My main account is the one with this issue. It has all expansions, 54 characters, and yesterday was the first time I've ever experienced such a noticeable load-in time, with graphical errors and missing inventory and skills bar and other weird actions, all from switching characters. I happen to notice my main account is also eating up my RAM when this is happening. I don't understand how internet latency could affect this, let alone affect my main account and not my alt accounts, all ran on the same computer. Something's going on with my main account with all expansions due to the SAB patch, because it's the only account eating up all of my RAM. I have 8GB of RAM btw. Does anybody else agree with their assessment and can shed more info on this? Considering the sheer amount of people with the same issue - that all started having this issue after the SAB patch - it's safe to say that it's not on your end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Lana.2506 Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Nasbit.3240 said: I wonder if its the amount of characters on an account. Most people here stated they have a decent amount of characters. Sure some say its caused by EoD, cause alt-accounts without work fine - but I bet the alt-accounts don't have more characters than fit on the char-screen? @mezuzel.4987May I ask how many characters your alt accounts have? (The alt account, that run in this issue as well) Sounds like it has more to do with accounts owning EoD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdeshano.7592 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Got another response saying they're aware of the issue now and are working on a fix. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emablackread.7246 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 12 minutes ago, Little Leota.5849 said: I only have one account. I have 70 characters, and I have HoT, PoF, and EoD. When I log in and select a character to play, everything works fine. It is when I switch characters that I have problems, like everyone else in this thread. This all began yesterday with the SAB update. I highly doubt this has anything to do with my internet. Same for me, own all expacs, have 29 characters our of 31 slots. And yes, the relog seems to be the issue - sometimes even logging out and then trying to log back in on the same char breaks everything. I know people throw the phrase around a lot, but this is literally unplayable lol. Freezing the game and having to wait a while and then relaunch every time one logs out is no fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereomix.2837 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 I had a similar problem when double-clicking the portrait to create a character. If i clicked the "create" button in the bottom right corner of the login screen i didn't have a problem creating a character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Lana.2506 Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, emablackread.7246 said: Same for me, own all expacs, have 29 characters our of 31 slots. And yes, the relog seems to be the issue - sometimes even logging out and then trying to log back in on the same char breaks everything. I know people throw the phrase around a lot, but this is literally unplayable lol. Freezing the game and having to wait a while and then relaunch every time one logs out is no fun. A friend told me earlier when he logged in it went straight to an infinite load. He wasn't even changing characters. I definitely agree with the literally unplayable bit. Can't log in means can't play the game lol. I switch toons for my frac runs each day, and my group was very confused as to why I was taking so long the first time until I explained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memeren.1057 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 I already posted on another thread, but this is exactly what is happening to me. Have only one account with all expansions, 61 characters and can't swap between them normally. If I try, the char select screen is just black, no toons loaded, no background art also the UI is black. Now if I try and pick a char to play with it will end up in looooong loading screen, and when it does load - everything is just messed up. No actual character loaded, textures missing, checkerboards here and there, skillbar and UI have no art or icons. Inventory window and the hero panel are just transparent mess. I also can't move. Restarting the client lets me swap chars, but I'm not gonna do that 60+ times. I am a habitual toon swapper so the game is unplayable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becii.7648 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 so does it have to do with having alot chars /switching around them? Coz ive 43 and it constantly happens to me too and its rly annoying q.q  https://imgur.com/4jT0HCJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTLZ.8743 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) Same Here for me all started last night with the patch. Loading Screens that take so long and wanna make you restart eventualy once you get onto a map it will look like this https://imgur.com/gallery/1BK7wVW had to restart my game like 5 times last night 😕 Edited March 31, 2022 by AdmuriaLOL.9210 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czymek.3798 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) Happening here too. Noticed that loading characters from the same map seemed okay, then loaded a different map was okay, then the bug happens. Not sure if this is helpful:Â Loaded Ember Bay fine, next character Ember Bay fine, next character Crystal Oasis fine, and then the bug appeared and needed to restart the client. Edited March 31, 2022 by Czymek.3798 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos.7901 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) I have 30 characters on ember bay puzzle chest all got same problem , very long loading screend and some textures are not load properly. Now i spend about one hour to grab chest not 8-10 minutes..... Fix this trash Anet!!!!  Edited March 31, 2022 by Deimos.7901 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aya.4861 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Me too, it annoying me I ask Anet but still can't work on it....HelpðŸ˜ðŸ˜ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achwas.6190 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 6 hours ago, jdeshano.7592 said: Got another response saying they're aware of the issue now and are working on a fix. Small patch this morning raised my hopes .... but  - nothing fixed. - 2 character changes, Black screen - only 3 of 32 toons visible, plus the screen fading out to black as usual.. Gotta love the tech support BS - but it sort of shows the level of quality control competence. Delay the angry customers while we furiously work and hope we find out where we screwed up.. Can't say how happy I am....NOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleiv.9813 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) Hope they fix this soon.. 😌 Edited March 31, 2022 by Grimleiv.9813 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasbit.3240 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 7 hours ago, Miss Lana.5276 said: Sounds like it has more to do with accounts owning EoD But what about the person with that problem on an alt account not owning EoD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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