Problem - zoning crash since using MQ2

[MOTD]

Is it a known problem to get stuck zoning, have to ctrl+alt+del and <end program> the instance of EQ that got stuck? When I reload, I'm in the zone that I was going to in the first place.

thx all.

 

[Sic]

Is it a known problem to get stuck zoning, have to ctrl+alt+del and <end program> the instance of EQ that got stuck? When I reload, I'm in the zone that I was going to in the first place.

thx all.

Ngreth has said a few un-updated UIs can cause a toon to not properly disconnect from the world which causes crashes at char select screen trying to swap toons. I wonder if you are having a similar issue.

Do you run a custom UI that is not updated? you would likely have errors in your uierrors.txt in your everquest folder

 

[Denethor]

Are you running MQ2Dannet?
Do you have a firewall / AV installed that could be blocking ports?
What plugins is your macroquest.ini loading?

 

[MOTD]

vanilla EQ UI

 

[Sic]

vanilla EQ UI

just for shits - I would run the eq file validation thing from the everquest launcher.

it is pretty unusual that mq2 would cause you to not be able to zone - its more likely you would crash with our without a dmp rather than just not make it through the zone

 

[MOTD]

dannet yes
windows firewall

 

[MOTD]

validation successful. all files up to date. not sure if anything changed.

btw, Merry Christmas everybody and thanks for the posts!

 

[MOTD]

no apparent change. still stuck on load screen. A guildie suggested using "Least memory usage" under display > advanced > Memory Mode. since the problem is intermittent, hard to tell if anything helps. I'd guess out of 20-30 zoning episodes a day, 2-3 will crash.

 

[Sic]

no apparent change. still stuck on load screen. A guildie suggested using "Least memory usage" under display > advanced > Memory Mode. since the problem is intermittent, hard to tell if anything helps. I'd guess out of 20-30 zoning episodes a day, 2-3 will crash.

do you happen to be in a giant guild with thousands of users?

someone else had an issue with zoning when they had their guild window to "show offline" users and had thousands of members

 

[MOTD]

no, the guild is pretty small... the map data is bigger than the guild window by far - is the map data what might be doing it? I usually leave the map up all the time on at least a couple of the guys for situational awareness and movement.