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trav42073

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 3:20am

Has this ever happened to you...

So I have noticed a pattern that has culminated in an unfortunate event.

3 times in one week we faced a particular guild that won by , well idont know how to say how they won. as I get dced at the end of every siege with them. and its always at a critical moment. tonights coincidental disconnect has topped them all.
the shortcut for rom is missing from my desktop. and trying to open it from within the rom folder is a non starter also. its as if the game is suddenly deactivated. cant patch. cant open. totally unresponsive since the disconnect from siege. has anyone else had the shortcut to game vanish from their desktop in such a manner?

I suppose having the same install since chapter 4 was released I have been lucky to not have to reinstall, just have been dreading going through another 8 hr reinstall based on how it went my first time installing rom 5 years ago.

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CammoXD

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 3:39am

Was it a 'dc' or a client error? Because client errors are common in siege, especially in those 'critical' moments when everyone is rushing around and lots of things are happening.

Your shortcut for RoM I can't explain but as for the game not opening, if your client got a critical error and you accidentally hit enter or something that makes you 'send' an error report, you need to go to your list of processes currently running and end the task "Launcher.exe". Then you should be able to start the launcher as expected.

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trav42073

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 3:45am

I got kicked to login. Relogged got disconnect message. Then game not responding. Never got crit error this time. I'm used to them. Shut down Rom. Shut down and restarted pc and rom shortcut gone. No luck starting from within windows menu nor rom folder itself. Even curse client doesn't know how to start it now.think I'm going to have to just do fresh install but at the moment even the website is being unresponsive. Site opens. Download game link will not.

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CammoXD

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 4:16am

Could be the same issue i am having. Not sure if any others are but when I go to login the client just stops responding lol. Another client for different server is working so im assuming something might be up with their servers? *Shrugs*

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 6:38am

2 guildies are having this issue. Screen froze during siege, and they couldn't get back in afterwards. Seems like it is fixed now though.

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Ziav

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 1:34pm

Quoted from "CammoXD"

Could be the same issue i am having. Not sure if any others are but when I go to login the client just stops responding lol. Another client for different server is working so im assuming something might be up with their servers? *Shrugs*

I get the not responding message when the client is loading also. Problem is, all the client software is on our systems, so it's a software problem, not a server problem since it's happening before we even get to the login screen.

@Trav, you do know you can download in the background or while at work/school so you don't have to sit thru the whole long download time. You can even install it to a different location while still logged into rom on your current client. No downtime, new client installed.

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 7:35pm

@ trav:

Regarding your issue with the RoM icon being missing from your Desktop, you can replace it by going to your main RoM game folder. Find the file "Runes of Magic" that is marked as a Shortcut. Copy (do not move) that file to your Desktop. It points to the correct target file.

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trav42073

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 7:57pm

Good tip z thanks. And making new shortcut Kalvan is not a problem. The file to start client from within rom folder does not respond period.client.exe I believe? Not at home to look right now so name may be incorrect.

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Friday, February 21st 2014, 9:12pm

The file to start the client from within the RoM folder is "Runes of Magic.exe"

It will start the client.exe correctly - just launching client.exe will result in not being able to play.

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trav42073

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Saturday, February 22nd 2014, 12:18am

ok so there is no Runesofmagic.exe in my rom folder. now what? there IS however a shortcut in my rom folder that when I hover on it says runesofmagic.exe. but clicking it does not start game. it pops a window up asking if I started this and want to run , I click yes, but.....nothing else happens.

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Saturday, February 22nd 2014, 12:44am

Sounds like your exe file got corrupted.

On same topic, yes i got booted out of RoM last night during seige and I could not get back in to teh game, not via shortcut, not via roM folder launcher.exe and not even via GFLive. I suspected a broken net backbone and sure enough when I ran a tracert the node from the backbone to the florida servers was dropping 100% of the packets. I believe this happened to all my socal compatriots. Went and ate dinner, came back an hour later and I got the game to open. Not sure if we won, lost or tied, or if the other team had the same issue....

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trav42073

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Saturday, February 22nd 2014, 4:08am

Interesting I'm in az so maybe same Internet issue hit me. Either way I'm 4 hours and halfway to new install. GeForce live keeps going atk on me so well see when it finishes. Dam unresponsive software.

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Saturday, February 22nd 2014, 10:14am

Quoted from "trav42073"

Either way I'm 4 hours and halfway to new install. GeForce live keeps going atk on me so well see when it finishes.

What I, and many others, find to be the best thing you can do with GameforgeLive is to Uninstall It!

You can collecta set of game installation files from this forum thread without the hassle of going through GFL.