The Hidden Forest

Hey guys,

I don't know what happened, but I can't stay online for more than 10~20 minutes at a time. I was away for a week, and then when I came home, I keep going LD now. No one touched my PC for the week I was gone, and I played right up to the last few hours before I left.

Anybody know what could be wrong?

Thanks!

Are you getting booted to character select? Or all the way out?

I'm getting the black screen, and then it boots me all the way out. For maybe 5min after that, login server doesn't work. I don't think it's my internet because everything else works.

EQ is more sensitive to a persistent connection than normal programs. This could easily be a temporary network issue between you and the server, routing, connectivity issue, etc. Also try to restart your router, see if that helps.

^^^ What Lillu said EQ also uses a ton of different ports for zoning, chat channel, world server, etc. A few years ago I suddenly out of the blue started crashing while zoning 99% of the time, and was totally unable to keep chat channels up. Turns out my isp suddenly started routing traffic every which direction, and blocked a variety of ports. Had to connect to EQ through a VPN in order to properly zone/stay connected. Did this on live EQ and all eqemu servers.

Note that if you insta crash to character select (like superhoss asked), it's due to MQ2 messing up by doing something like trying to cast one thing while moving another item and casting something else, etc.