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Forgotten Hope 2 => FH2 Help / Support => Topic started by: Oberst_Kroenen on 10-01-2018, 01:01:07

Title: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Oberst_Kroenen on 10-01-2018, 01:01:07

Hey guys,

so I've played FH for years now and had no problem what so ever. However a few days ago a problem appeared. When I start the game it shows this small windows saying "Checking for updates" and it stays like this and the game just won't load. I can't even press the Skip button. Before it appeared for 10 secs or something and the game menu appeared where i selected Play to start the game. I don't know why it doesn't load now. Can someone help me with this?

Title: Re: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Oberst_Kroenen on 10-01-2018, 01:01:57

OK so the game loaded but it took around 30 mins. Isn't that a little too much? As i mentioned in my previous post this checking for updates usually took 10-15 seconds at most.

Title: Re: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Slayer on 10-01-2018, 19:01:10

Yeah, that's too long. Have you tried the following:
- normal connection speeds normal?
- no ports blocked?
- repair button in the Launcher does nothing?

Title: Re: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Oberst_Kroenen on 11-01-2018, 00:01:32

Quote from: Slayer on 10-01-2018, 19:01:10

Yeah, that's too long. Have you tried the following:
- normal connection speeds normal?
- no ports blocked?
- repair button in the Launcher does nothing?

Well lets see:
- my Internet connection is same as always and it's pretty good.
- i'm not sure what exactly you mean bu i haven't touched anything on my computer. It is the same as it has always been. I havent plugged or unplugged stuff from it.
- i haven't tried that yet i will give it a go now. 

Title: Re: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Oberst_Kroenen on 12-01-2018, 00:01:43

OK after the repair completed it now takes around 5 mins to load. That is still kinda long but still better than yesterday.

Title: Re: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Slayer on 12-01-2018, 00:01:40

Maybe try repair a few times. I don't know what's causing this, but I'm glad repair at least alleviated the problem.

Title: Re: Luncher is Checking for updates too long.
Post by: Mayhemic.MAD on 20-02-2018, 20:02:43

Sorry for the late reply. There is no issue with your computer, just bad luck it seems.

It should not happen anymore, now that I banned a few chinese ip ranges that were sometimes causing a ddos outage on one of our two update servers. Also the requests from our Launcher were really still done with the default 5 minute timeout  :-X

I guess most other people who had the same issues just aborted the update check and restarted the launcher. It´s a 50% chance to hit the bad/good server if one is unavailable.