Bug - The blacking out issue I experience, since VOA came out.

[Infiniteye]

I wanted to make a separate post about this to show you the issue. I doubt there is anything that can be done but this is the bug I experience in zones like CoB when I have the map window open. I played with toggling ground spawns just to get the reactions of the UI. Changing slight things will un-bug it till you click on a window or close the map window all together. Mostly though it's very annoying because playing with blacked out chats, blacked out quest window and blacked out mercenary windows is a pita just because the map is open.

I SS'd a few samples with my custom UI and a couple with Default UI. I have since over the past year built a new comp, have windows 7 now so the prob wasn't just in win xp. I also re-downloaded EQ fully and have deleted the CoB zone files and music files and anything else I could think of that may be buggy. I have come to the conclusion that it's just something in MQ and not my system. Anyone else experience this or found a way to fix it? The whited out parts are what i blocked out for personal safety. The windows that are black or missing text like the quest window was done by whatever this bug is. I don't know if this has been discussed on the main MQ boards etc. I only come here for the most part, if you can share this with the devs or at least let me know if anyone has an idea what the issue is that would be great.

 

[Maskoi]

Please post the plugins you are loading too.

 

[Infiniteye]

These are the plugins, it's nothing special.

[Plugins]
mq2bagwindow=mq2bagwindow
mq2labels=mq2labels
mq2itemdisplay=mq2itemdisplay
mq2custombinds=mq2custombinds
mq2hud=mq2hud
mq2fps=mq2fps
mq2map=mq2map
mq2chatwnd=mq2chatwnd
mq2eqbugfix=mq2eqbugfix
mq2nonagwindows=mq2nonagwindows
mq2cast=mq2cast
mq2exchange=mq2exchange
mq2moveutils=mq2moveutils
mq2spawnmaster=mq2spawnmaster
mq2rez=mq2rez
mq2melee=mq2melee

 

[Sinn69]

I have the same problem on my PC that runs win vista, but maps are fine on my PC that runs XP.

 

[Sym]

I have this issue too, windows 7. Making the map show a smaller radius of spawns helps.

 

[griffman]

same issue, windows 7

 

[Sym]

I had this prior to VoA however

 

[wackawacka]

That is the bug with displaying to much text with mapfilter on. It is not a bug on MQ2 side its a bug on Everquest side and the UI development. I posted about this on the VIP lounge at macroquest2.com and got many comments about it being a function of displaying to much text on the screen.

According to DKAA (http://macroquest2.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=135995#p135995), it's an EQ bug. It's been that way for years.

Make a social Key to toggle /mapfilter npc and other /mapfilter commands to fix it.

 

[Infiniteye]

Thanks for shedding some light on this wackawacka, I was wondering how to lessen the radius of mobs around me if this is the case. I know I can filter just named and other stuff but is there a way to just have it show mobs within 600 of me or so? kinda like a radar screen I guess. I thought nothing could lag me ever again when I built my new computer, boy was I wrong. EQ is just the giant that never gets enough, well with MQ added to it it really is a giant.

Thanks for the links and explaination!

 

[wackawacka]

http://www.macroquest2.com/wiki/index.php/MQ2Map

No way that i can see to make a radar function. The reason you lag is text. Mass amounts of text lags EQ for some reason hard. Same with show names and everything else i have a really beefy computer and to many corpses i lag.

 

[AnonymousHero]

/mapfilter custom npc radius 600

would show you anything within 600 loc units of you

/mapfilter custom npc named

would filter out everything but named on the map

/mapfilter custom by itself will reset any custom mapfilters.

 

[Infiniteye]

Thanks AH, I appreciate this. it's working like a charm RC'd!

 

[Raysu]

Wooohooo thanks AnonymousHero!