Freezing when logging in

[India]

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[NituWakan]

I just want to add this: I reinstalled the game (new PC) almost two years ago and have been fighting this issue, and others, ever since. Some annoying things such as full screen / windowed mode selections not persisting from one session to the next. I finally bypassed WINEQ2, which I had never used previously, in all my years of playing P99 prior to reinstalling (I thought: what the heck, must be better, right?) and my problems went away. ymmv, but wanted to mention it.

[Fingurs]

Originally Posted by NituWakan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just want to add this: I reinstalled the game (new PC) almost two years ago and have been fighting this issue, and others, ever since. Some annoying things such as full screen / windowed mode selections not persisting from one session to the next. I finally bypassed WINEQ2, which I had never used previously, in all my years of playing P99 prior to reinstalling (I thought: what the heck, must be better, right?) and my problems went away. ymmv, but wanted to mention it.

I am happy you figured your issues out -- unfortunately this issue were speaking about is different. It happened to some people on certain systems after the late feb/early march Windows 11 update. My desktop updated and has no issues, but my laptop was caught up in it.

Its still happening, with no solution in sight short of someone far smarter then me troubleshooting it, or a new windows 11 update reverting/fixing it.

[lucie]

Hello, maybe it could help you. For personal reasons I choose to play without the sound. So I turned it off. So when I do not connect to its at the beginning of loading, no sound to the selection of characters, and therefore never problems connection ( now I know that it can be very unpleasant for those who want sound ) .
But today and this is a whole other concern, and I did a post about it, my IP address is blocked. PS; je suis +Belge , I speak French, this message has been translated by réverso.

[Fingurs]

Unfortunately that also did not work.

Just boggles the mind what is causing this. Again, I will reiterate, once I load in -- 0 issues. No lag. No crashing. No stuttering, nothing. Perfectly playable. Its only from Character Select to Loading into game I get completely frozen. Task Manager wont load, and only way out is to switch windows users.

[Fingurs]

bump - still having this issue, anyone lucky enough to figure it out?

[punkrawk]

I also had this problem, and I installed the Voodoo thing, which helped resolve it. Here is a YouTube video showing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArLNnN0GwfQ

[Zemekes]

Also having this issue. When choosing character and logging in, screen goes black and it just doesn't do anything. It's getting more frequent too. Many guildies also experiencing this problem. It's obviously patch related since it's global. Can this be addressed? I don't have hours to lose on just logging in.

[Zemekes]

Originally Posted by punkrawk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I also had this problem, and I installed the Voodoo thing, which helped resolve it. Here is a YouTube video showing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArLNnN0GwfQ

I already have Voodoo and use winEQ. That doesn't fix the specific character login problem.