The Open Cave

Log in process stuck on 'Initializing Patcher'

It has taken a ton of fixes and work around to get TOC up and running and even now I've barely done so... I was in game for all but ten mins b4 I crashed going into COD (apparently that happens) and I've been unable to log in since.

When I try opening TOC with admin it gets stuck on the update window with the text 'Initializing Patcher' and an eternally empty progress bar...

I've been opening and re-opening TOC after deleting the TOS doc and I would do so now were it still there. It hasn't been replaced.

After I crashed linking in to COD I checked the TOC webpage and noticed the online status indicator was Yellow, I don't know what that means or if it had anything to do with my crash, but since then the indicator on the webpage has been green and right now someone is listed as being online in TOC and I still cannot get the patcher to initialize.

I'll shut down my PC before bed tonight and see what a system restart will do. Other than that, does anyone have any suggestions? I've searched these forums and the TOC webpage and I've not seen this issue mentioned before.

I had a problem that sounds similar to yours the other day which I discussed in this thread :
http://the-open-cave.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=177

Or it could be your patcher file. Try emailing it to the TOC team (it can be found at Users/../AppData/Local/UruLive/Log )
Opa had me send the patcher.0.elf file, but check with them first as it may be a different file.

I hope that helps

Alien

Most of the time, when you can't get past the 'Initializing Patcher' it's because the server is down for some reason. Yellow indicates it's down for maintence. Just give it a half hour or so and try again. I hope this helps you.
Regards,
S'ni Day

I'm thinking that must have been it, S'ni, despite what the TOC website was telling me. After booting up and running TOC I was able to log in for a time before crashing...

Thanks for the suggestions.

I am getting this problem now.
Just as I tried to log in, the who's online list crashed.
I refreshed it, and people online are moving about and others have logged in
but I can't

Edit : solved
Thanks to Janeerah
He told me to try ctrl alt del and look in the process tab
urulauncher was listed there and i ended the process