[97 patch] The game doesn't start

    Hi all


    I played Tera when it first came out in Korea, and was closed beta for EU. Have been away a long time so this week I downloaded the GF client and then Tera but alas I get the issues people have here.


    I have uninstalled and reinstalled, still issues, can anyone tell me if i go through steam can i access my old account?


    I ask this because frankly gameforge is a shambles and always was and I will not spend hours uninstalling and reinstalling for fails


    Thanks HelaFire

    I eventually uninstalled the game and also Gameforge client and also moved the empty folder to another drive partition. I cleaned out the Screenshots and installed on a clean drive but on main hard drive for the computer on another partition and not an external USB or other drive.


    The game worked but cus I only have 8GB of memory is unusable whenever I come into contact with other players. I had to go to Velika today and I couldn't even get across the main courtyard. It's like slow motion stop start. So I have to play on my own and log out in Tria where there isn't anyone.


    The loading screen is just bonkers... It goes from black screens to blue screens to faded out screens and then loud sudden noises. When my characters appear they are not moving they simply glide along the surface. Just that both the hard drive speed and lack of memory is stalling the game. So if any of that snags its going to fail. When I log out the hard drive and GPU fans are in melt down and takes forever to log out of the Gameforge client. Never like ever close the Gameforge client before you have the play the game option flagged instead of still in game. However tempting it may be.


    The biggest problem I have that now pretty well is a killer for the game is the time it takes to update or repair. I had to wait 18 hours the first week and best part of half a day for the second.


    I finally managed to get to Exodor and will get to 70 on my last mystic tommorow and I don't have any other chars to level that I can do without super drag and slow animations so I'm about done I think. I can't play with anyone else cus its like wading thro treacle.


    It's a game that needs the 16GB RAM and a good hard drive/ or drive speed transfer rate. The load rates that slow you down are always the loading in and loading out of other players in your zone. So if you can cope with Highwatch without lag slow downs your probably good to go. I can't even open my inventory in Highwatch ... so funny. The game works for most on 64BiT but for some of us it's not doable any more. I guess they know that so I don't see Gameforge being able to do anything about it.

    Kinda crazy, when i first started playing Tera in the Korean closed beta I was on a laptop that had under 8GB of RAM and definitely not the right processor or graphics card and I managed with settings turned down, my FPS was shocking though.


    I had a PC built which was over recommended specs at the time EU Tera was up and running, now my Processor and Graphic is not even considered minimum. Will be interesting to see how it plays.


    As to what you did, that is not ideal for me as my main hard drive is a SSD with only 150gb of space on it, I am wondering if I uninstall gameforge and put that on the SATA HD which is where I put Tera on if that might not solve the issue?


    Can anyone who switched to steam to run Tera tell me if they are able to access their old accounts there?

    Without the extra RAM the computer is using virtual and its clobbering the hard drive. The amount of data swapping is immense. The problem is other players data. I use to have the same problem when I played World of Warcraft on an old XP machine. It just crawled to a standstill when I entered a busy area and then I fell thro the floor. My guess is that this is a file indexing problem and under the screen what you can't see is the green ribbon of death. It is just cycling trying to make sense of the gzillion files now needed set against your limited memory capacity to deal with it and locks up. Faster hard drive transfer on a drive with a lot more spare capacity may help. It certainly helped me whan I first started playing this game.


    Like I say, the bigger problem once you get it working is enjoying the game. This last week, as I have spent my last hours levelling on my own to avoid drop out from other players, the chat has been filled with almost everyone complaining about lag. The game currently is in serious trouble. And its not even busy. Imagine what it would be like if it were really active.


    Good luck.