Am I the only one that has to repair?

phil.maricel08ub17_ESO · July 2022

Damn near every single morning I have to repair the launcher to get the game to open. I dont see anything posted recently, so I am left to wonder if it's just my system, which players' systems seem to be the root of all issues game related. If no one else is having this issue, please share some possible fixes that may help me with this issue.

etchedpixels · July 2022

A repair goes through the game files checking that they are not corrupted and then restores/redownloads any stuff that has been.

If you keep getting repairs and the repair actually changes something rather than saying that the game was fine you need to work out what is causing corruption. Obvious candidates are

- virus scanners getting trigger happy (which would usually show up as bogus removed virus etc)
- viruses/trojans
- bad system memory
- bad SSD,. GPU, motherboard or CPU (very very unlikely it's any of these but is possible)

You can test system memory with a bootable tool called memtest86+ which is free and various variants exist over time. It's a "run overnight" scale test but it's free to do so worth a check

Do other games fail on the machine ?
Does the repair say it fixed anything ?
Does starting some other large game first also fix it ?
If you are using steam does running another steam game first fix it ?

phil.maricel08ub17_ESO · July 2022

etchedpixels wrote: »

A repair goes through the game files checking that they are not corrupted and then restores/redownloads any stuff that has been.

If you keep getting repairs and the repair actually changes something rather than saying that the game was fine you need to work out what is causing corruption. Obvious candidates are

- virus scanners getting trigger happy (which would usually show up as bogus removed virus etc)
- viruses/trojans
- bad system memory
- bad SSD,. GPU, motherboard or CPU (very very unlikely it's any of these but is possible)

You can test system memory with a bootable tool called memtest86+ which is free and various variants exist over time. It's a "run overnight" scale test but it's free to do so worth a check

Do other games fail on the machine ?
Does the repair say it fixed anything ?
Does starting some other large game first also fix it ?
If you are using steam does running another steam game first fix it ?

Thank you for your response! I will definitely take some time this weekend to narrow down the list that you provided. I really appreciate your feedback. It is so frustrating having a few minutes before work to do a daily or two and running in to the same problem damn near daily.

freespirit · July 2022

Do you mean when opening the launcher the "play" button has been replaced with "repair"?

If so there have been problems with this in the past and for many the solution was to close the launcher and open it again.

I'm sure you have tried this but just incase you haven't it was worth mentioning, hope you get it sorted.

Oh also might be worth uninstalling the launcher and re-installing it, it might have picked up some gremlins. 💕

Edit:- As a quick solution of a morning have you tried just loading the game from the exe. file? That bypasses the launcher completely. 😃

starkerealm · July 2022

freespirit wrote: »

Edit:- As a quick solution of a morning have you tried just loading the game from the exe. file? That bypasses the launcher completely. 😃

As a fun piece of (slightly off topic) trivia: You can actually launch multiple instances of the client directly from the .exe.

Now, you can't log into your account multiple times, but if you have multiple accounts, you can log into each simultaneously. Automating them to actually play them simultaneously is against terms of service, don't do it, but you can use this to bite yourself, or directly trade items between your accounts.