Feldon If you have run into the Launchpad problem we reported earlier today, a fix has been rushed through and rolled out today according to Bunji:
An updated EXE was pushed out to the US patchers (international patcher updates are still in progress) which should hopefully resolve the issue where you get the pop-up asking you if you want Full or Streaming, but setting you to streaming regardless of your choice.
Now if you set your install to full (under ‘Select Game Version'
, it should stay that way and you shouldn’t receive any pop-ups when launching the client (which would previously occur if you had both a ‘PAKs’ and an ‘assetcache’ folder in your install directory).
Matt Meyer on the Launchpad team gave a bit more insight into what’s happening with the bug:
I caught wind of this last night. There is some code in the game client that is trying (incorrectly) to detect what version it thinks you should be running and making bad things happen when they try and fix it.
The original plan was to fix this issue next Tuesday with Game Update 63, but an update was prioritized and rolled out today.
So something patched for me this morning.
Game version shows: Apr 12 2012 11:17:58
Though when I launch trough LP4 it starts streaming, hell if I know what. (all paks are still there).
I can launch game trough EverQuest2.exe directly and that works without any streatming so far.
So seems whatever they fixed didn’t work 100%.
Playing on EU Splitpaw.
ya , same here
i went to my directory and check my paks that were still there after i saw the 13,xxxMB download
had to Check the “Full Version” box
Sando –
Where is the “Full Version” box to check? I can’t see it!
On Splitpaw too.
No more check box “full version” here. DL again 13MB this night and still being in streaming when I’m in game. This really sucks…
The “Full Version” checkbox seems to have been removed from this new version of the Launchpad. This certainly makes it difficult to switch from Streaming.
I was lucky enough not to have had any problems until after this so-called fix. Now I find that I constantly have the little dragon showing that I am downloading a ton of stuff. My assetcache folder is getting larger and larger.
Launching directly from everquest2.exe solves the problem for me too, but of course this can only be a temporary solution as I will need to update for skyshrine if not before.
(international patcher updates are still in progress)
I guess this means that Splitpaw, etc *may* have it in place come GU63 update?
Typical.
I’m hearing people still having problems. The pooch, it has been screw’d.
i am glad they are fixing this. the frustration has been over the top. to be advised for the longest time it must be somthing i was doing was crazy making
Yep – just logged in and everything is slooooow. Guessing that raids could be off if people are buttered up this weekend.
Just to confirm the slow comment – I mean slow due to everything streaming down…
From Matt on the SOE Forums:
would be nice if you could trust anything sony says, nice game anyway when it is not messed up.
starting trough everquest2 directly may work for some but if i do that i only get the us servers not eu and i play on eu so i still cant play my chars 🙁
I play through the exe, on Storms. So it works.
EU launcher still broken after GU63 🙁
Total incompetence from SOE, as already mentioned GU63 doesnt fix the EU servers.
The Launchpad problems never went away for ne. I have been working thru Tech Support since 4/14/12 (I think) and every day nothing changes. I have finally given up and quit my Gold membership. If SOE doesn’t feel like fixing whatever got screwed up on 4/12/12, then I don’t feel like paying them anymore.
For folks’s info, I was on the US Oasis server, using Windows 7 Home Premium on a PC with a GeForce video card (recently updated drivers and all).