Forgive me if this has been addressed...I am starting back up with PSO (yes, I play around the holidays--I don't know why! Nostalgia! (thanks Ultima for making it possible))...
When I started playing again, I was getting like, 20 rares per run (at first I thought it was the Anniversary Event - and I thought it was awesome!). Many rares didn't seem "right" or had weird names. I figured I needed to update to the new launcher. When I did, I felt like some of the prior items in my banks changed to crap items. Kind of a bummer, because I had some halfway decent stuff (see attached ~ Limiter, Yasmanikov9K, etc. turned to stuff like FreezeBarrier and generic Mechgun+1 - not cool).
OTHER (MORE IMPORTANT) ISSUE:
PC is decent: Win 7~64, i7 970, 24 GB RAM, Quadro 2 GB, etc...
New launcher crashes every time. "PsOBB.exe" is the only .exe that gets me into the game without instant crash (and that was only after I manually patched over the files with the newest patch download).
**Worse, I cannot access "options" in the launcher, so I cannot change resolution or troubleshoot.
I tried the following:
Admin mode, compatibility modes, etc.,
Uninstalled the old installation,
Deleted folder of old,
Reinstalled the new game download,
Manually patched over files