Problem - Everything is all screwy

[EQbackagain]

Hey all, I'm fairly new (you might have noticed several newbie threads popping up). Just trying to figure out why the game is constantly crashing and several screwy things are going on.

I have the following ini for my druid, which used to work perfectly. Now he forgets to snare and is constantly trying to buff Skin Like Wood!

I'm assuming there has been some sort of EQ client update or something?

[General]
KissAssistVer=9.1.3
Role=Assist
CampRadius=30
CampRadiusExceed=400
ReturnToCamp=0
ChaseAssist=0
ChaseDistance=25
MedOn=1
MedStart=20
MedCombat=0
LootOn=0
RezAcceptOn=0
AcceptInvitesOn=1
GroupWatchOn=0
CastingInterruptOn=0
EQBCOn=0
IRCOn=0
MiscGem=8
HoTTOn=0
CampfireOn=0
GroupEscapeOn=0
[SpellSet]
LoadSpellSet=0
SpellSetName=KissAssist
[Buffs]
BuffsOn=0
Buffs1=NULL
Buffs2=NULL
Buffs3=NULL
Buffs4=NULL
Buffs5=NULL
Buffs6=NULL
Buffs7=NULL
Buffs8=NULL
Buffs9=NULL
Buffs10=NULL
Buffs11=NULL
Buffs12=NULL
Buffs13=NULL
Buffs14=NULL
Buffs15=NULL
Buffs16=NULL
Buffs17=NULL
Buffs18=NULL
Buffs19=NULL
Buffs20=NULL
RebuffOn=1
CheckBuffsTimer=10
PowerSource=NULL
[Melee]
AssistAt=95
MeleeOn=0
FaceMobOn=1
MeleeDistance=75
StickHow=snaproll rear
AutoFireOn=0
UseMQ2Melee=1
[GoM]
GoMSHelp=Format - Spell|Target, MA Me or Mob, i.e. Rampaging Servant Rk. II|Mob
GoMSpell1=NULL
GoMSpell2=NULL
GoMSpell3=NULL
[GMail]
GMailHelp=Events currently support - Dead,GM,Level,Named,Leftgroup
GMailOn=0
GMail1=NULL
GMail2=NULL
GMail3=NULL
GMail4=NULL
GMail5=NULL
[AE]
AEOn=0
AERadius=50
AE1=NULL
AE2=NULL
AE3=NULL
AE4=NULL
AE5=NULL
AE6=NULL
AE7=NULL
AE8=NULL
AE9=NULL
AE10=NULL
[DPS]
DPSOn=2
DPSSkip=20
DPSInterval=2
DPS1=Ensnare|50
DPS2=Creeping Crud|95
DPS3=Drifting Death|89
DPS4=Ice|40
DPS5=NULL
DPS6=NULL
DPS7=NULL
DPS8=NULL
DPS9=NULL
DPS10=NULL
DPS11=NULL
DPS12=NULL
DPS13=NULL
DPS14=NULL
DPS15=NULL
DPS16=NULL
DPS17=NULL
DPS18=NULL
DPS19=NULL
DPS20=NULL
DebuffAllOn=0
[Aggro]
AggroOn=0
Aggro1=NULL
Aggro2=NULL
Aggro3=NULL
Aggro4=NULL
Aggro5=NULL
[Heals]
Help=Format Spell|% to heal at i.e. Devout Light Rk. II|50
HealsOn=1
Heals1=Superior Healing|70
Heals2=NULL
Heals3=NULL
Heals4=NULL
Heals5=NULL
Heals6=NULL
Heals7=NULL
Heals8=NULL
Heals9=NULL
Heals10=NULL
Heals11=NULL
Heals12=NULL
Heals13=NULL
Heals14=NULL
Heals15=NULL
XTarHeal=0
XTarHeal2=0
AutoRezOn=0
AutoRezWith=Your Rez Item/AA/Spell
HealGroupPetsOn=0
[Cures]
CuresOn=0
Cures1=NULL
Cures2=NULL
Cures3=NULL
Cures4=NULL
Cures5=NULL
[Pet]
PetOn=0
PetSpell=YourPetSpell
PetShrinkOn=0
PetShrinkSpell=Tiny Companion
PetBuffsOn=0
PetBuffs1=NULL
PetBuffs2=NULL
PetBuffs3=NULL
PetBuffs4=NULL
PetBuffs5=NULL
PetBuffs6=NULL
PetBuffs7=NULL
PetBuffs8=NULL
PetCombatOn=1
PetBreakMezSpell=NULL
PetRampPullWait=0
PetSuspend=0
MoveWhenHit=0
PetHoldOn=1
[Burn]
BurnText=Decepticons Attack
BurnAllNamed=0
Burn1=NULL
Burn2=NULL
Burn3=NULL
Burn4=NULL
Burn5=NULL
Burn6=NULL
Burn7=NULL
Burn8=NULL
Burn9=NULL
Burn10=NULL
Burn11=NULL
Burn12=NULL
Burn13=NULL
Burn14=NULL
Burn15=NULL
UseTribute=0
[Pull]
PullWith=Melee
MaxRadius=350
MaxZRange=50
PullWait=5
PullRoleToggle=0
ChainPull=0
ChainPullHP=90
ChainPullPause=30|2
PullLevel=0|0
[AFKTools]
AFKHelp=AFKGMAction=0 Off, 1 Pause Macro, 2 End Macro, 3 Unload MQ2, 4 Quit Game
AFKToolsOn=0
AFKGMAction=1
AFKPCRadius=150
CampOnDeath=0
ClickBacktoCamp=0
[Merc]
Help=To use: Turn off Auto Assist in Manage Mercenary Window
MercOn=0
MercAssistAt=92

Also my puller is now not pulling with spells, even though it's equipped in his spellgem in the same place as usual.

- - - Updated - - -

Turns out a restart of all everquest games and MQ was needed!

- - - Updated - - -

Edit:

Calling myself a liar. It started doing it again. Puller runs up to mob, doesn't cast pulling spell and just follows it around.

Nothing changed in ini files from my perfectly working system earlier in the day

 

[Maskoi]

Test, Beta or Live server?

 

[EQbackagain]

Live Server. It's been a bit random, but it worked itself out eventually.

 

[Goatse Moneyshot]

ive had a stick of ram go bad once and cause one of my 10 boxes usually numbers 8-9-10 to crash took me forever to figure it out.

 

[Skyjet2000]

He's trying to cast Skin like wood with nothing in your buff section?

 

[mroutlaw]

had this the other day as well I had to unload mq2 and reload it , something screwy was going on like there was a ini or something stuck in memory , my ranger was pulling however he wasn't even labeled as puller then I looked at his brand new ini and he was labeled as a puller and I had never even changed it, as soon as I reloaded it he was back as a assist again ? just do /unload and refresh injections it should stop it. don't even ask me about wonky, Maskoi will tell you I get weirdest bugs sometimes lol.

 

[eqgeek]

If he's constantly casting Skin Like Wood, it might be due to a cleric buff. Block your cleric HP buff and the cleric will cast Symbol on top of your Skin.

Also, crashes on my computer have occurred for these reasons:

1) corrupt MQ2Melee file. It didn't appear corrupted, it just was. I deleted it and made a fresh one, fixed the crash. Try this first if you only crash on one toon.

2) Memory leak. Like Neo, my ancient toaster of a computer was dying. Replaced the RAM and it's back to working relatively well.

3) Issue with screen size mismatch. So this one took some time to figure out. My video card was set up for one resolution (1680x1050), but the eqclient.ini file was set up for something else (1920x1080). So any time my computer went into sleep mode, screensaver mode, or you zoned, I would get a random crash where the video card flipped out about the game resolution. On my desktop the mismatch was only a few pixels (1920x1019 vs the video card expecting 1920x1080). Updating that made the crashes stop.

Here is the portion from the eqclient.ini you'll want to look at:

[VideoMode]
Width=1920
Height=1080
WindowedWidth=1920
WindowedHeight=1080
RestoredWidth=1920
RestoredHeight=1080

 

[ubereater]

that happens to me all too often. It also can happen to the clerics or shamans as well as the druids i have. they resort to level 1 spell casting and just cast non stop either a buff or a heal, and don't do anything else. ending the macro or zoning won't fix it, when it reloads it'll just go back to it. Sometimes by relogging and loading it again it'll fix it maybe 10% of the time. but at this point, i just completely close that instance of EQ and load a fresh one, for any chars that are stuck in the level 1 casting loop. I also notice it's more prone to do it, the longer the characters are logged in, and or if they sit at character select for a long time and then log back in. Basically the longer the instance of EQ is open the more prone it is to happen.

Now it doesn't always happen to all of them, usually it'll be like 1-3 of them, i've never had more than 5 do it at one time. it can be annoying, and if you don't realize it and go into a fight it can really hurt ya. But it's just more of an inconvenience i've gotten used to.

I haven't really tried to troubleshoot it or anything, it's not because my computer can't handle it, i've got a beast machine for eq. with 20 guys going i'm only at a load usage of 7% of my cpus 10% of my memory and 9% of the gpu