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Anonymous
11 years ago

Stuck on Black loading screen after initial cutscene in Multiplayer.

so for most part, the game runs fine.

I'm getting moments where I connect to a multiplayer game and then get stuck on the black loading screen with the flashy green loading thing in the corner. It stays there for a while and if I do wait a few more minutes, the game loads but without any of the UI elements and I'm not able to control my character. 

Other members of the party progress, and if they get to the first check point, my character actually wraps there but I'm still unable to control or move him. 

Every other bits of the game works fine. I tried repairing the game once, but it doesn't seem to help solve the issue. 

Please help. 

my dxdiag info 

http://pastebin.com/5u58CW7J

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    After some experiementing I think it has to do with a connectivity.  I don't understand /why/ though, since I can get into game just fine if I skip the loading part( cutscene, the part with the voiceover), why is it that I am stuck on the loading part? 

    Does anyone know if I can somehow manually skip the initial cutscene? or disable it?

  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
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    11 years ago

    I saw this once too, and it did seem to be related to connectivity. Basically I could hear what was happening and see other players running around, but I couldn't interact, and this was after a very long black loading screen. 

    Curiously, I couldn't reproduce it at a later date, the MP has worked fine for me since. What location are you in, and are you using a VPN to connect? If you are using one to unlock the game early, note that it doesn't need to be active once the game starts. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I'm in Southeast Asia, specifically Brunei. I been playing with a friend in Australia, and when he hosts the game, this particular bug happens to me five out of five times. It has happened every now and then for public games I joined, some with VPN others without VPN, though significantly less. What you have described more or less is what I had experienced. 

    Now, what I been doing is to just join my friend's game after he has loaded into the game, thereby skipping the cutsene. We play with little trouble since, but it is annoying for obvious reasons. I obviously cannot do this for public games. For most part, this kind of half-disconnect/half-connected state makes no sense to me. I mean, I rather get booted out straight away if I'm not connected to the host. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Same thing happened to me. Many of my friends also cannot play MP due to this problem. We are all from South East Asia.
    Im from Singapore, 2 from Thailand , 1 from Vietnam and 1 from Indonesia 

  • last time i was at tevinter ruins.. but been playing for weeks now ive gotten 3 times today and the random crash to desktop has reared its ugly head.. using a 8 core processer, 8gig ram 2gig video card..  havent had these issues till this week.. was working fine before.. ive done 2 single player playthroughs with no issues.. seems more with the recent patch things have been going bad

     my location is in US, florida

  • There seems to be a trend with the localization. Perhaps an issue with gates or IPs? I am playing from the Philippines as well and it has been unbearable, basically, I can't play with my friends from North America since if I party with them and start the match with them its basically a guaranteed Alt+F4. I did notice though that with certain PUGs I can play just fine without incident. Really odd.

  • It's now August, 2016 and it is STILL happening to me... ugh... has anyone found the cause/fix yet?

    BTW, I'm from the Philippines too.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Has anyone figured this out?

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