invalid metafile

mattgbrowneub17_ESO

Never had any ESO problems before. Internet connection is fine. Anyone else having this issue? Hoping its patch/maintenance related and temporary...

Beerbong_Ginn

I've been having this problem tonight, as well. "Unable to load metafile" when trying to patch or repair.

kaosodin

Is this when starting the game? Pre patcher?

mattgbrowneub17_ESO

I reinstalled launcher and had a few more problems with invalid metafile. Then repair just decided to work and verified and downloaded patch and I was able to play fine. CS was prompt in trying to help, but couldn't seem to diagnose or fix the issue. Weird and annoying but all in all only resulted in about an hour of lost playing time

Beerbong_Ginn

I e-mailed CS, too. I ended up uninstalling the game, but it wouldn't re-install, either. I was able to start re-installing at about 11 PM EDT; checked this morning, and all seems to be working now.

mattgbrowneub17_ESO

I can only guess, but there had to have been issues with their servers that were affecting patching for random players. I dont have the best machine/internet connection in the world but the game always works fine so this was very random and strange. Especially since it seemed to fix itself. I really try to stay off the blame train because I'm sure a game like this is incredibly hard to maintain, but man its stressful when it doesn't work, there's no clear diagnosis of why and you're paying a time-based subscription.

frwinters_ESO

mattgbrowneub17_ESO wrote: »

I reinstalled launcher and had a few more problems with invalid metafile. Then repair just decided to work and verified and downloaded patch and I was able to play fine. CS was prompt in trying to help, but couldn't seem to diagnose or fix the issue. Weird and annoying but all in all only resulted in about an hour of lost playing time

I got this as well. The repair process would go through but it still wouldn't download. I called ZOS and well guess what....they couldn't fix it. Had to run the launcher debugger to give them my PC specs and email it to them.. I am now unable to play a game im paying for. Will not connect.

Last week after the patch i was getting 301 errors. Same thing as above, called them, they couldn't figure it out, emailed my specs. Last week though i got pissed and just did a complete removal of the game, downloaded a fresh launcher, re-installed game overnight, next day BOOM worked.

So this new error is coming off a fresh download of the game and client.

I am not happy right now....I am starting to hate patch days.

mattgbrowneub17_ESO

Hey guys instead of redownloading entire game I just redownloaded the launcher client. It verified I had the game installed already and then downloaded the patches. I dont know if this fixed the issue (like if the old launcher was corrupt) or if it was a server-side problem that could only be remedied with time. No one seems to know, even CS, whose response time was great but whose actual response was just not helpful with this issue