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Returned after not playing for a couple years. Downloaded and installed late yesterday 9/9/2017 and things ran ok. Today 9/10/2017 things ran fine for about 90 minutes then game started freezing up... had to kill tasks and reboot... took about 8 attempts to finally get in for a little while and now it is back to that behavior. Can't connect to game server after selecting channel... if I get further then can't connect to game server after entering PIN... try again and again and then at some point get connected and can play but lots of lag. Changing channels works only about 50% of the time, changing characters works about 50% of the time... game freezes the other 50%... Now I can't log in again repeating the same thing again of either just freezing or not connecting to game server... Odds and ends of other people saying they are having issues but nothing specifically. Windows 10 64 - 16 gigs of RAM - Mardea
Any help appreciated.
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Long story short, be on the lookout for the eventual update that maybe fixes these issues and everything will be fine.
It makes sense though. Support staff is once again, telling us that it is our problem with most of the issues that we're facing. There's been 7 maintenances this patch alone. If people have spent money on items i.e. Hyper Teleport Rock (30 DAYS) like I have, then a lot of that is being wasted because I'm not going to spend an hour trying to get on and stay on only to do 5 minutes worth of work inside the game.
There is factually no other company that takes more advantage from their playerbase while not giving back in greater amounts or lowering the gambling paywall despite having an unstable game that had its instability increased furthermore upon this patch. Yes, they had/have it coming. Every criticism is well deserved.
My hypothesis (some GMs should read my hypothesis) Sept 3rd 11:59 pm server time, this was the last day of my lag-free maple experience. Then everything changed after a quest pop-up after the clock rolled to midnight. This quest was Big Bully's. I accepted the quest and the game started lagging like never before non-stop.
I feel that this quest is the culprit of Maple-pocalypse of 2017.
This is just my observation and theory.
Blank error message can be fixed by tweaking your registry:
Open the Regedit program on your computer and locate "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers"
Then, find the registry that contains the filepath for your Maplestory files
Right click>"Modify">delete the value
Runtime errors can typically be solved by updating your 32-bit C++ Runtime Libraries:
https://support-maplestory.nexon.net/hc/en-us/articles/115001169426-Runtime-Error
If this doesn't work, I'm not sure. Some of the other VFMs are better at fixing those errors than I am.
I am still curious about the one screen after the character select that asked permission to gather statistics from my PC... the screen was from within the Maplestory login and mentioned turning this off and on in the options. I could do nothing but kill the app as it had totally stopped responding at that point.
We know it's a DDoS attack, Nexon America won't admit it, but it's pretty obvious everyone is mad at the previous changes made during this event, and it's commonplace in maplestory when something hurts everyone that there's a DDoS attack. (I personally remember a time where there were botters farming elite drops here and there and when Nexon applied a huge patch to stop botters they retaliated with DDoS). Everything was fine the first 2 days of the update, then suddenly the servers crapped themselves with no explaination. When they turn off servers for maintenance DDoS-ers stop DDoS-ing and when they restart the servers, its fine for a few hours until the DDoS-ers find out the game is back up to start DDoS-ing again. I just want some closure man.