Problem - DPS Meter timing out

[soulmonger]

I am currently raising a group of 3 chars. Monk, SK, and Shaman. Both the SK and the Monk melee every mob and hitsmode is set to full. But after every single fight it says there was a timing error and no DPS data is shown. I have literally never seen this feature work a single time on any of these chars. Not sure what I am doing wrong?

 

[Maskoi]

your hit modes need to be set to to full for it to work in chat,

 

[soulmonger]

Hit modes are set to full on all three chars...

I was watching the output for a couple of hours yesterday and I saw the DPS meter work exactly 1 time on my monk and 1 time on my SK. Every single other time it said there was a timing error. What could be causing this?

 

[Maskoi]

are you showing all your damage and not hiding it from the options > chat ?

 

[soulmonger]

Yes. The only thing set to hide in the chat settings is 'spam'.

 

[soulmonger]

I have been monitoring this for a few days. I very rarely see the DPS meter work. Maybe 1 in every 50 mobs or so. I tried logging out all my chars except 2 and letting them kill for a bit and I still have the same issue. So the issue is certainly not related to CPU load. Even with only two toons running I am still seeing the DPS meter only work every great once in awhile. Not sure what can be done to fix this.

 

[hellfyre]

What is the average fight time?

 

[minniemmee24]

i been having this problem for a few weeks, it seems to randomly happen, but happens a lot, when it does i have to loot on that chars screen and spam a key and it will "catch up" and work again till the next fight.

 

[jamie75]

Can we get an INI option to disable it?


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[Emerica]

Have you made sure your background frame rate isnt limited to something super low?
That will cause it to time out also. That is a setting in the eq game options window itself, graphic settings iirc.

 

[soulmonger]

I am not sure how long the average fight time is. I will have to find that out later today. For the purposes of this test all FPS limits are disabled. Both of my toons are running >100FPS regardless of if they are in the foreground or background.

 

[Maskoi]

what version of kiss are you using?

 

[soulmonger]

9.1.8

 

[minniemmee24]

same settings, and version, no limit on FPS and still timed out


UPDATED

Also like to add, Autocleric 2.0 and EOKnuke on wizard works fine.

 

[Maskoi]

Can we get an INI option to disable it?


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Yes will be in next Kiss Release

 

[Maskoi]

around line 1341 find these 2 lines in sub combat

:Attack
                /call EventsCombat

add /if (${DPSMeter}) /doevents YouHit

:Attack
                /call EventsCombat
                /if (${DPSMeter}) /doevents YouHit

see if that fixes it

 

[soulmonger]

That seems to have fixed it. I have seen the DPS meter every time today after killing ~20 or so mobs.

 

[Maskoi]

its an events thing. event mainly called during casting but if you are a pure melee it needs to be called in the combat loop .
Will be in next release.