Only one start per boot?

Hello, everybody,

my system shows a rather curious behavior that I would like to know how to avoid/fix/...

When I boot my machine (currently XP pro, graphics drivers are up to date) and launch City of Heroes, everything works fine. The "City of Heroes" loader screen is displayed (I use windowed mode), and a short time afterwards I can log in.

But after exiting CoH (not just logging out but actually closing the client), I can't start it again successfully. Or rather, I can, but I don't get ANY graphics at all, except for a mouse cursor that consists of two very short horizontal lines. Even the loader screen is black.

I logged into the game by guessing where the buttons might be, and the music playing in the background indicated that I successfully entered Atlas Park. I tried to type "/unloadgfx" into the interface blindly, but nothing happened.

Closing CoH and starting it again will not change the result, until I reboot my computer, or (which is really strange) until I start the Test Server version (which runs in Full Screen mode and in another screen resolution, if that matters). After that, I'm good for one more regular CoH launch.

Yes, not only does the test server version work correctly, but afterwards even the regular version works, albeit again only once.

What could possibly be wrong here? Any ideas?

Since I know what to do (just reboot the machine or visit the test server) it's not really that big of an issue for me. But I'm still curious.

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

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I think I saw that someone else was having this issue within the last couple weeks. If I'm not mistaken, he did a Windows system restore and went back to before he started having these issues.

Other generic things to try would be to verify your files on the CoH loader, defrag and error check your hard drive(s), clean out your temporary directory (open your run prompt and type "%temp%" then delete everything it will let you clean out from there) in case something is goofing with your system from there...

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