I’m getting the blackscreen after Character selection again since DT, fine before, nothing changed on my netwrok or PC. Second weekend in a row for this now.
glad to know i m not the only one … less glad that i don t know what to do about it
my isp is: virgin (london uk)
“I’m getting the blackscreen after Character selection again since DT, fine before, nothing changed on my netwrok or PC. Second weekend in a row for this now.”
Same I am
Go to EVE launcher, right click the E top right, shared cache -> verify.
Also doesn’t help to run fix permissions.
Had this problem myself, usually due to corrupt resources. If the verify option is greyed out, launcher is screwed too. I fixed by copying the launcher from another machine, after that the option to verify the indexes was available.
Running verify then found a couple of corrupt resource files, deleted them. Was able to then login and the corrupt resource files just get downloaded again when needed.
Tried all that earlier to no avail 
Also restarted my laptop, restarted my phone to make sure the network connection was fresh, cleared the cache entirely.
Nothing worked for me so far
Tried replacing the launcher?
Yes I’ve been getting a lot of socket closures recently as well.
iirc it started after the last update (not the one we just had, the one before), before that everything was running smoothly for a very long time.
I did think there might have been a patch during one of the daily down times that fixed it because it stopped doing it a few of days before this update (this one we just had).
It’s started doing it again with a vengeance since this update.
I’m in the UK myself, so European yes… until Brexit gets finalized anyway 
This is kind of amazing… week-end is starting and now we are back to disconnection every 60 mins as usual… i really can’t believe ccp isn’t really doing anything about that…
Oky now is getting pretty ridiculous… 2 hours ago it started again after exactly 60 mins after the char is logged in i get the socket close… it’s happened last week-end too and got magically fixed after the monday downtime… now it’s friday and it’s back again… pls don’t insult my intelligence by saying that i should check my isp cause it’s obviously not an isp problem or at least not my isp, since if it was my isp problem the disconnection would be random and not every after 60 mins exact after the char log-in… just let us since it’s not only me many ppls have this problem and we were even talking about it in the forum but no one even bothered to reply to us from the customer service… so can you check and tell me what the hell is happening? Constantly Disconnects “The Socket is closed”
my todays ticket… let’s see if i get a reply this time…
Yeah its back, had a funny feeling it would be not happy but if my guess is right, after the alliance tournament is over it will be back to a normal service. I don`t know what they do to mess it up but its a waste of time worrying about your own connection while CCP is messing stuff up.
Same for me. Its back. Friday night and the DCs are back again. Sorry this is ridiculous and i am rly angry at this point. Like CCP is giving a ■■■■ about my ticket and this post in the forums. They just dont care. Seems like there is no other option as to quit … i dont want to pay money to ppl who dont give the service they were paid for and even let them alone with obvious problems on their side.
Ok i got a response to my ticket. Telling me they regret it that i have this problems and then they linked me the article about socket closed errors … I told the guy the things we found out together, told him about the ppl who have the exact same problem in the exact same way and linked him this thread. I also told him to really look into this and that the patience of us rly is exhausted due to the fact that CCP give no response whatsoever.
Day 2 , no replies to tickets, same black screen and “connection lost”.
Can login to singularity it seems ok, but not on tranquility.
Verified cache , not helped.
Not sure this is the OP’s (or my) problem.
There’s no disconnect from the internet, no shutdown or black screen, all other open programs & internet connections stay up & running just fine for me (& I think the OP?).
I just get the socket closure on the game.
Hi a friend was having same issues as u
And he found out some one was hijacking his internet… Have you looked into making sure no one else is using your internet??
Mike
I don’t use a wireless connection, OP & others may be different of course.
Noone is hijacking my internet and it would be odd if it would be the case for everyone here. Its def CCP side
There is another thread with exact your problem discribed. Its not the same as we have. Look here Connectivity Issue: Socket closing
This morning i didn’t get updates from the event “The agency” i had all clear but guess what… it was not just updating… after the downtime… it worked again… but after 2 hours now i still have not seen a “Luky Clash Site”… but as for magic… i’m not getting anymore the socket close after every hour… seriously… those events are messing way too much with the stability of the game…