Hi, I am having a weird problem for the first time and I’m not sure how to remedy it.
I recently reinstalled to start playing uthgard again (no previous problems) and my game launches the first time after a fresh install of daoc and I am able to log in and play, but once I close it out and try to reopen, the game launches but doesn’t actually load. (process running in background)
The only thing I have found that works (which is very annoying and also very time consuming) is uninstalling both daoc and the uthgard client, but like I said it will only work once before it is closed and will not reopen. Does anybody have any ideas of what it could be that is causing the issue? I have already read through the faqs and old forum posts but can’t seem to find anyone having the same issue.

I do have the same problem sometimes, too. What I found out was that keeping the browser tap opened not doing anything but waiting for the game to load worked fine. If I was unlucky loading the game successfully I kill the process and simply reload.

Raku wrote:I do have the same problem sometimes, too. What I found out was that keeping the browser tap opened not doing anything but waiting for the game to load worked fine. If I was unlucky loading the game successfully I kill the process and simply reload.

Yeah, this does nothing for me, I have been trying this for an hour and I am still having the same issue. I am looking for a permanent fix, I don't want to have to sit around and hope something goes right.

A friend of mine experienced this because his connection wasn't good (he now lives in a bigger town, but about 1yr ago he lived in a village), and when connection went haywire, of course, the loader did too. I have no permanent solution for that issue, without knowing its actual cause I would say it's a connection issue, but then, again, I am not sure.

Raku wrote:A friend of mine experienced this because his connection wasn't good (he now lives in a bigger town, but about 1yr ago he lived in a village), and when connection went haywire, of course, the loader did too. I have no permanent solution for that issue, without knowing its actual cause I would say it's a connection issue, but then, again, I am not sure.

Yeah, I don't think it is this either. I have connected to the servers without problems from this connection before. I really don't know what it could be, considering I can and have connected twice (two separate times after fresh install) and was able to play the game for a few hours with no problems arising until I would quit and try to reopen.

I'm really not sure what is going on, but I can tell you I'm getting fed up with having to try to troubleshoot and scour through old forum posts instead of actually playing the game.

Just a shot in the dark here, but it certainly can't HURT your situation:

For Windows 10:
Go into c:\users\YOURNAME\Onedrive\documents\Electronic Arts\Dark Age of Camelot

And delete the following files:
animode
critical
debug
ui
uthdelve
world

Then restart the game. Don't worry - the files will get rebuilt. I recently had a LOT of problems getting into the game and this is what fixed it for me. Admittedly it isn't the same problem you are having, but it's a very hard to find possible fix so I am passing it along to you in case one of these files is causing the problem.

Good luck!

@asteran
Then, probably, it's a packet issue from your side to the Uthgard DNS Server. I really dunno, would love to help you. But I would try what Icharus wrote, maybe that helps out!?

Raku

I'm using windows 10 pro 64 and seems like things get stuck in memory. a full shutdown not reboot often clears it up. if the methods above do not work.

But if you alt tab a lot to look things up, or adjust music or whatever. is best to run windowed mode and set your launcher setting for uthgard. either in the launcher or under your account to borderless full window. and be sure under also your daoc client that it does not sleep under minimized for when you are alt-tabbed.

I do this so reshade does not recompile each time I alt-tab with full screen.