Crashing issues

[Telchar]

Hey All,
I am a long time UO player. I run a fairly new computer running Windows 11 Pro. I use enhanced client with Pinko's. For the last 3 weeks my game has been crashing at random intervals. A real buzz kill. I have worked with Pinko's and I have tried his list of suggestions with no luck. He is positive it is related to anti virus or windows. I am inclined to agree with him. Is anyone else having or has had tjis problem?

 

[AntyvasII]

I use classic client and Windows 10. Get regular disconnects no matter what I'm doing or game I'm playing, that I'm positive are Windows-related. I'm sure Windows 11 is even more annoying, which is why I have no desire to upgrade to it and even resisted Windows 10 until unavoidable.

 

[Prawn]

When the server migrations first happened I noticed an uptick in random disconnects. I have tried my windows 11, 10 and even an XP setup and I am getting disconnected on both the CC and EC clients randomly. I then decided to try the web client (ClassicUO) and the same thing! Disconnects , randomly. I thought at first this could have been an issue on my side (I am using star-link due to where I live) but I logged into two different freeshard for days on end and never disconnected once, so definately a broadsword server issue.

 

[JumboJacko]

When the server migrations first happened I noticed an uptick in random disconnects. I have tried my windows 11, 10 and even an XP setup and I am getting disconnected on both the CC and EC clients randomly. I then decided to try the web client (ClassicUO) and the same thing! Disconnects , randomly. I thought at first this could have been an issue on my side (I am using star-link due to where I live) but I logged into two different freeshard for days on end and never disconnected once, so definately a broadsword server issue.

I've had similar issues. Every single day, right around 12:50-1pm my time, I get random disconnects for 5-10 minutes. I usually have multiple accounts on, and sometimes its only some accounts, sometimes it's all, sometimes their losing connection minutes apart. Then intermittently through the day, I'll just randomly have characters disconnect for no apparent reason. Its not on my end, I've observed it happening running the game from multiple locations, on multiple connections, on multiple Internet speeds.

 

[Prawn]

I've had similar issues. Every single day, right around 12:50-1pm my time, I get random disconnects for 5-10 minutes. I usually have multiple accounts on, and sometimes its only some accounts, sometimes it's all, sometimes their losing connection minutes apart. Then intermittently through the day, I'll just randomly have characters disconnect for no apparent reason. Its not on my end, I've observed it happening running the game from multiple locations, on multiple connections, on multiple Internet speeds.

And as I go to type this reply, connection lost.

Agreed, no rhyme or reason.. I too have multiple accounts on, and one will lose connection, while the other is fine. No specific action causing it.. so definitely something going on with the latency of the server, packet loss or just general stability.

Getting very frustrating.

 

[James [W^H]]

I have documented this and reported these disconnects since it started in December 2024. The problem started when they tried to stop the non approved clients.

 

[Lady CaT]

I noticed that on server log in, a lot of the shards are not showing latency results. The ones that show results I don't have any random loss of connection and UO plays just fine.

The shards that appear in the list but show no latency results for me appear to be the ones where random connection losses occur. I suspect there is an intermediate server somewhere that is causing the connection loss issues.

I doubt this is anything with operating system, firewalls or antivirus since multiple people are suddenly experiencing it. Also, I've had multiple days where everything is just fine and UO runs great. Then a day where suddenly lots of disconnects occur.

 

[James [W^H]]

I noticed that on server log in that a lot of the shards are not showing latency results. The ones that show results I dont have any random loss of connection. The shards that appear in the list but show no latency results appear to be the ones where random connection losses occur. I suspect there is a server somewhere that is causing the issues.

The disconnects are on every shard based on the feedback I’ve collected from players. Bug reports have been submitted by multiple players and the Developers were notified of the disconnects in December 2024. They have never acknowledged or responded to the problem.

 

[Snakeman]

Ditto, random disconnects also since server migration & random stall outs for a few seconds.

 

[Ivory Norwind]

Bug reports have been submitted by multiple players and the Developers were notified of the disconnects in December 2024. They have never acknowledged or responded to the problem.

And are you surprised? Normal routine now, not responding

 

[Prawn]

Stratics must be sharing servers with broadsword, forums and wiki crashing all day too

 

[Ivory Norwind]

Stratics must be sharing servers with broadsword, forums and wiki crashing all day too

What does this have to do with the fact that they never answer? Not even during the December hacker attack? Lack of time?

 

[Telchar]

Please take this as I mean it, it is nice to hear that I am not the only one having this problem. I have been working for 3+ week to try and work this out. I too have several accounts and I cannot use them properly

 

[Lokea]

I had a hard crash on my Windows 11 PC the other night just as a vampire bat appeared on the screen and my character had nothing in his hands. I had to restart the PC to fix it - I couldn't stop/kill/terminate the processes for whatever reason, even from the command line. It seems to happen every other week.

By the time I logged in on another computer, my character was dead, but he went from 0 to 1.4 in wrestling, so I feel like he put up a fair fight! I wouldn't have cared, but he had a lumberjack satchel on him, which is not insurable.

I would love to use Pinco's, but I have problems with the "LOADING" splash screen way too often, and I've tried everything under the sun - deleting the character dir/settings fixes it usually, but I don't want to keep doing that. I may fiddle around with it and get it working, and make a copy of that directory/settings and then just copy it over when it happens.