POTCO Known Issues: 2008

These are the POTCO Known Issues for the year 2008. Click here to return to POTCO Known Issues.

August 2008

August 14, 2008

• On rare occasions a player's ship will be stuck at sea
• Workaround: The next time the game servers are restarted, the ship will return to the player
• A recent AVG Internet Security update falsely detects Pirates Online's "Launcher1.exe" as a Trojan Horse
• Workaround: Download the latest definition file from AVG released Sunday, April 27
• Trend Micro Anti-Virus has falsely detected Pirates Online's Launcher1.exe as a Trojan Horse
• Workaround: Download the latest definition file from Trend Micro
• Occasionally, a Boss Battle crew will not remain intact after teleporting to the Boss Battle
• Members of the crew will sometimes get left behind when boarding a flagship, causing the player to be unable to move.
• Workaround:Hitting F1 will release the player.
• The Whisper chat window closes the second time you click Whisper and try to send a message.
• Workaround: Close and re-open the Pirate's avatar panel each time you want to whisper to a fellow Pirate.
• The Lookout System seems like it is often not able to find matches for higher level Pirates looking to do PVP
• Workaround: Invite other high level Pirates to PVP before initiating the Lookout System.
• The chat panel sometimes switches to Local when you are chatting with your Guild or Crew.
• Workaround: Click either the Guild or Crew chat tab.
• On rare occasions, pressing the Enter button on the keyboard will not bring up the Chat window.
• Workaround: Click on the gold arrow next to the skull icon, which is found in the bottom left hand corner of the game window.
• Game does not minimize when clicking Upgrade button on Mac.
• Workaround: Switch your game settings to Windowed Mode
• Grenades are not hitting the fort floors or ship floors.
• Workaround: You must hit an enemy directly to cause damage.
• Vista and Mac game-related crashes occurring while boarding, sailing, and docking ships
• Workaround: For users with ATI video cards, try updating to the newest driver version which you can download from here

September 2008

September 10, 2008

• On rare occasions a player's ship will be stuck at sea
• Workaround: The next time the game servers are restarted, the ship will return to the player
• A recent AVG Internet Security update falsely detects Pirates Online's "Launcher1.exe" as a Trojan Horse
• Workaround: Download the latest definition file from AVG released Sunday, April 27
• Trend Micro Anti-Virus has falsely detected Pirates Online's Launcher1.exe as a Trojan Horse
• Workaround: Download the latest definition file from Trend Micro
• Occasionally, a Boss Battle crew will not remain intact after teleporting to the Boss Battle
• Members of the crew will sometimes get left behind when boarding a flagship, causing the player to be unable to move.
• Workaround:Hitting F1 will release the player.
• The Whisper chat window closes the second time you click Whisper and try to send a message.
• Workaround: Close and re-open the Pirate's avatar panel each time you want to whisper to a fellow Pirate.
• The Lookout System seems like it is often not able to find matches for higher level Pirates looking to do PVP
• Workaround: Invite other high level Pirates to PVP before initiating the Lookout System.
• The chat panel sometimes switches to Local when you are chatting with your Guild or Crew.
• Workaround: Click either the Guild or Crew chat tab.
• On rare occasions, pressing the Enter button on the keyboard will not bring up the Chat window.
• Workaround: Click on the gold arrow next to the skull icon, which is found in the bottom left hand corner of the game window.
• Game does not minimize when clicking Upgrade button on Mac.
• Workaround: Switch your game settings to Windowed Mode
• Grenades are not hitting the fort floors or ship floors.
• Workaround: You must hit an enemy directly to cause damage.
• Vista and Mac game-related crashes occurring while boarding, sailing, and docking ships
• Workaround: For users with ATI video cards, try updating to the newest driver version which you can download from here

September 12, 2008

Known Issues - September 12, 2008

• Some players are experiencing problems when trying to update Pirates Online after downloading it for the first time.
• Workaround:

1. Navigate to the PiratesOnline directory on your computer and delete the file named hash_data.
2. Launch Pirates Online again, and you will be able to finish updating the game.
3. Log in!

October 2008

October 23, 2008

• There is currently a bug with damage in land PVP. We are investigating a fix.