Ok i had atlantis but I thought i needed to upgrade, so i went to site but accidentally clicked the upgrade atlantis to catacombs which was for US version. I changed the update.dat as necessary but all it does is load the initial screen with v1.87 loading and then it crashes and closes, no error message or anything. Do i really need to uninstall and download EU version?

OK i have downloaded the EU version of catacombs but it crashes before it fully loads. It just gets stuck and will load no further. So now I downloaded darkness rising cos it overrides the bugged catacombs. So now it loads fully and can connect to server. I get to the char select screen and I select my char and it then says "Camelot has encountered a problem and needs to close" and crashes. Can someone please help me?

had the same problem a while ago

a file check solved it

you can find that when starting the original daoc launcher and mark the option "do a complete file check"

esme wrote:had the same problem a while ago

a file check solved it

you can find that when starting the original daoc launcher and mark the option "do a complete file check"

I did that and now its patched to darkness rising v1.87. Now the old problem comes back because there is a loading bar and this bar gets to about 90% and stops. It then basically crashes and does not do anything else after that...Please help me!!

do you get any error messages?

Thraxia wrote:do you get any error messages?

Not any more, it used to crash and get the Windows error message but now its been patched and it simply has the loading bar get to about 90% and stops. Nothing else happens. It was the case with catacombs but the bar went when i first upgraded to darkness rising together with this problem...

I've uninstalled catacombs and reinstalled with the same problems, it patches to full and that causes the load bar to stop at about 90%. I then reinstalled darkness rising and again i can now log in but as soon as i select character it crashes with the windows error message. I did a file check and canceled the update to v1.87 (i'm on v1.80 darkness rising atm). However it still doesnt work. Is there any other way to get catacombs?

The problem with the new version 1.87 is the login window which doesn't
show any useful messages anymore!

Check your connect.bat or your Launcher for the correct settings.
I think your game is correctly installed but you have got a problem with the
connection to the server:
- Server-IP is wrong
- Accountpassword is wrong
- If you are new, maybe the account does already exist and belongs to
another player. Just use another accountname.

coldfusion wrote: and canceled the update to v1.87 (i'm on v1.80 darkness rising atm). However it still doesnt work. Is there any other way to get catacombs?

ehm you should update to 1.87 someone correct me if i am wrong but i think you can't play here with a lower version then 1.82

i guess with the update/filecheck and like you wrote: you can connect but the client stops while loading the game
with or without error messages
your game data is ok and your connect.bat is right.

maybe its your graphics card or a running firewall which causes these problems

I seriously hope its not the graphics card cos my laptop is quite high spec and if its not good enough tnen i am really stuffed. When i update to version 1.87 darkness rising i dont even get to the connection stage. The game does not load fully (it stays on the v1.87 loading stage). It has the bar so it shows about 90% completion in loading. I think i turned off windows firewall but i can double check that. Other than that i'm running mcafee firewall which I have granted full access to camelot.exe already...
I'm using the latest version of Uthlauncher and I can connect using atlantis version I already have and I have an account and it works fully on atlantis. I can connect to server only with v1.80 darkness rising because it goes past the game loading stage and it says connected to server. I then get to char selection stage and it is when I select char that I crash. Both the 1.87 Catacombs and darkness rising has the loading bar and I dont even completely load the game...

camelot.exe is not the one connecting to uthgard. its the game.dll.

DanGer666 wrote:camelot.exe is not the one connecting to uthgard. its the game.dll.

I turned off windows firewall and i cant add game.dll into the accepted list, appaarantly mcafee only allows you to add .exe files...However, there have been no popups saying game.dll wishes to connect to the internet yet...

coldfusion wrote:

DanGer666 wrote:camelot.exe is not the one connecting to uthgard. its the game.dll.

I turned off windows firewall and i cant add game.dll into the accepted list, appaarantly mcafee only allows you to add .exe files...However, there have been no popups saying game.dll wishes to connect to the internet yet...

Kind of weird, McAfee always asks me to "let DAoC going online" if I reinstalled a new version... Maybe reinstall McAfee first.

Kuxi wrote:

coldfusion wrote:

DanGer666 wrote:camelot.exe is not the one connecting to uthgard. its the game.dll.

I turned off windows firewall and i cant add game.dll into the accepted list, appaarantly mcafee only allows you to add .exe files...However, there have been no popups saying game.dll wishes to connect to the internet yet...

Kind of weird, McAfee always asks me to "let DAoC going online" if I reinstalled a new version... Maybe reinstall McAfee first.

I think its not the connection cos it doesnt even get to the connection stage in v1.87. It just says game loading and the bar never completes. It does connect in 1.80 darkness rising cos i actually get the words connecting to server, connected to server but it later crashes after char selection. I will try next week when i have access to my dad's desktop, which i'm guessing should be much much better than the laptop and see if it is a hardware problem. If so then I probably never get above frontiers

so whats ur hard-spec?