General question: if you uninstall, does it delete the settings folder/file?  There's a "Dungeons and Dragons Online" dir, at least in lunix... that's killable.

I think I ran into this once, where it was trying to hit some unsupported setting, and couldn't resolve it until I wiped out that stuff.

I encountered an interesting bug lately.
My son has been bugging me to play DDO for awhile now, so I thought I'd give him one of my alt accounts to play around with.

I took one of my USB copies of the game, updated it, and then file copied it to his machine.
I have done this many times before when I ran multiple machines when I wanted to avoid doing the update more than once.

So I copied the files, loaded the game and it kept crashing to desktop after "loading data" just before character select.  Just as the screen changes.  I think that is the handover point from Launcher to the DDO game exe.

So I Googled, checked Turdbine Support and tried all the fixes I could remember.  nada.
Went back and installed all the legacy .net shit.  Checked the DirectX12 files were there.
Checked firewall permissions.
Gave each of the key Turbine .exe files admin privileges.


This is a brand new, mid tier machine with fresh install of Win10, lots of RAM, SSD and good vid card.

Deleted all the files, re-downloaded the game from DDO website, installed and started playing.  This time I got to the character select screen, chose character, crash.  Every time.
Rinse and repeat a dozen times after a reboot and rechecking all settings.
Tried running the game in DX9, DX10 and DX11 modes.  No change.

On a hunch, ran the game from the USB stick - and it worked flawlessly!


What the heck?

Any ideas why it would run without a problem from a USB stick and not from the SSD?

The only thing I have noticed is that the SSD based launcher version prompts a a few UAC security permissions dialogues, but the USB launcher does not?
Could it be a Win10 UAC quirk that does not apply to USB sticks?

I have to say that I have had very few problems running DDO from USB sticks on many different computers.
So if you're having problems running it, copy all of the DDO Unlimited folder onto a USB2 or 3 stick and try running it.  Might help diagnose the cause of your issues.

renamed userpref and it booted right up, thanks !

DropBear wrote on Oct 11^th, 2016 at 3:43am:


It could have been where you copied the files to, W10 is extremely twtichy on modifying/moving/copying files to/from the Program Files folders. I would recommend creating a Games folder at the root of C: so it would be C:\Games\DDO

Also disable UAC it is a pointless waste of time and causes far more problems than it fixes.

ugh, can't interact with the left mouse button ? (click on doors, etc, etc)

i guess im not looking at the right setting....

its probably right in front of me, sorry I just got done filling out 42 pages of PRIA forms for an airline application, my brain is fried to the 9th degree, just want to log and kill shit...