Hey,
so I've tried to get the game work properly for a while now. The problem seems to be that every time I patch it with the classic patch the game stops loading to the map, dungeons work correctly but the main map makes the game generate a appcrash on game.dll. I've tried it on win 7, 64 and 32, the same problem on both computers. I've tried daoc v1.109 and 1.104 and DAoCPortals 2.6 and 2.5 and the same seems to be true for all combinations.

So what i did today was:
1. Took a fresh pc with a fresh install of DAoC from the official site (v1.109)
2. Installed DAoCPortal (v2.6)
3. Configure Portal
4. Downloaded Classic and Tajendi patch
5. Patched with ModManager
6. Logged in, picked a char
and
7. Crashed with game.dll error

So could someone point out what I missed or did wrong, I could login to a char that was in a dungeon (DF) but leaving to the main map crashed the game.

Hope to hear from someone soon, I'd like to go smack someone with my hammer.

are you using the atlantis ui or a custom one if so which each time?

jalore wrote:are you using the atlantis ui or a custom one if so which each time?

Used the default UI each time.

I'm having the same problem. I'm new so it's possible that I did something wrong... still I'm pretty sure I followed all the instruction like SilverKid.

I made a character and pressed Play. First time I received game.dll crash and the second try it said "could not load the location" or something like that. Before all that the game tried to download 1.109b patch. I interrupted it and went to configure portal. Do I need it?

Sorry for double post, I just want to repeat the procedure

dl patcher, wait till it updates all the stuff, install latest portal, set up portal settings. I created a folder "mods" in portal folder and placed classic and tijun(something...) files in it and clicked patch button. DAoC appeared, but updating took forever. Every file took 2-3 mins to process. I left it for a few HOURS, and when I came back it still wasn't finished and mythic patcher showed 0%. Was that an attempt of mod manager to install your mods? Something else? Is there any other, faster way to install your mods?

I canceled it and tried other servers for the sake of testing. Strangely I was able to log into Faith server without much fuss. Tried your server again, same thing. Error right after I picked my toon and clicked Play.

Can anyone help please?

hi,

have the same problem as SilverKid. Before i pach the classic pach i can log to OF and everywhere else just the Svasud Faste is not in right place.
After i pach the classic pach then cant log in with chrs that are loged off on midgard main map (mularn, rauma, east sveland,
malmo ...) or when i go there the game.dll will crush. If i unpach it those zones works again.

Couled play like this but wanna join events and the svasud fast couled be on right place also

Can something be wrong with the files pach installs to game midgard zone folder or some of those files are somehow incompatible with something ?
i know 3 more ppl with same problem.

Hope some smart daoc players and GM-s can give us some ideas what more we can try.


have a nice day

hi,

seemed there was not many ideas around or i had no patience to wait, so i started to search the solution myself

Becouse i am no programmer or IT guru i started to search the problem from classic pach files becouse it started to crush after i pached classic pach. So i made two game folder, one was original downloaded game and another test game. After i pached classic pach in test game i started to replace pach files in test game one by one with original game files hopeing the best

After 2h i found the file that crushed my daoc game in midgard main map with pached classic pach. The problem was in zone111 folder with file dat111.mpk
If you have the same problem as me then download game and copy original file dat111.mpk to deskdop and after paching classic pach replace the dat111.mpk with the old one you copyed to deskdop. After that the midgard map didnt crush and so far everything works for me
Maby someone can tell us what the pached file dat111.mpk shouled do more then the original dat111.mpk I hope its nothing very important


Hope it helps someone and the game works properly for us

I had problems with my new pc also - did DaoC ever run on the computer? If not it might be some Softwareproblem with Windows 7 - at least that's what it was for me
(You run your new computer with a original Windows 7 Version?)

=> Try stuff like put DaoC on 1 core only or start as administrator
Annother point on my old PC was that my firewall made the game freeze when start 1st time after installation, but it was a freeze and not game.dll crash window

Maagman wrote:hi,

seemed there was not many ideas around or i had no patience to wait, so i started to search the solution myself

Becouse i am no programmer or IT guru i started to search the problem from classic pach files becouse it started to crush after i pached classic pach. So i made two game folder, one was original downloaded game and another test game. After i pached classic pach in test game i started to replace pach files in test game one by one with original game files hopeing the best

After 2h i found the file that crushed my daoc game in midgard main map with pached classic pach. The problem was in zone111 folder with file dat111.mpk
If you have the same problem as me then download game and copy original file dat111.mpk to deskdop and after paching classic pach replace the dat111.mpk with the old one you copyed to deskdop. After that the midgard map didnt crush and so far everything works for me
Maby someone can tell us what the pached file dat111.mpk shouled do more then the original dat111.mpk I hope its nothing very important


Hope it helps someone and the game works properly for us

hmmm. interesting