majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 21
st, 2014 at 8:46am:
The double log in thing has been seen internally externally but we haven't figured out exactly what the hell it is. Some race condition happens...but the SSD/HDD will muck with the timing of launching, so it may help point to the cause.
Not exactly.
Well from my point of view, as a recently upgraded Frog it's not a race condition, but it's linked to the DAT files.
Before I upgraded my PC was the following :
- 230Gb 7200rpm Western Digital HDD
- Pentium D930
- ATI 7950 graphic Card.
- Windows XP SP3.
- 4Gb of RAM.
DSL Max which compute for my line length to 4.8Mb/s up, 1Mb/s Down.
I always had a red connection logo when I first entered the game, and while I was loading ( after a crash ) I always could talk into party ( while the only thing I was seeing was the loading screen ). While I had that, my HDD was working like a mad.
I upgraded with the following :
- 2 120Gb SSDs ( Intel )
- 1 160 Gb SSD ( Intel )
- Windows 7
All the rest stayed the same.
For whatever reasons, I failed at the Installation check and I'm too lazy to do it again, so my Windows 7 is installed on the HDD.
DDO is installed on one of the SSD.
Since DDO is on the SSD I don't have the red link down signal and I've cut my loading time a lot.
It's consistent with the fact that the preloader solve the crash on logging issue by preloading in memory the DAT files.
For me the problem is tied to the DAT files, they are full of things that can be removed and of duplicate of the same data ( or various versions of said data ) and would need to be streamlined.
If you reduce the file size you will reduce the number of crashes.