Zoning, Crashing and Stuck Toons since LU60 - I had a big sad

[CorpseGoddess]

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hey there...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, since Tuesday the 31st, my main toon Streppoch has been trapped in Drunder.  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">I needed to zone into Drunder for the new Othmir questline. </span>Part of the new crafting questline requires you to stick a toe into the zone. I did so--clicked on the zone, game crashed. All right, it's patch day, it happens. Load the game back up, assets start loading---game crashes. Again. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And again.And again.So Strep's now trapped in there. GM answers my petition by moving me out to Commonlands and having me delete my cache folders. Peachy keen. I head back to Drunder for Strep Crafting Adventure part II.Guess what?Rinse and repeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While this is going on, I've been able to log onto my alts and play them no problem.  So at the time, I thought the issue was just with the Drunder zone, as I read here on the forums that some other people had this same issue with Drunder.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I let the GM know, who says he'll pass it along to tech support, but I haven't heard anything back and now we're heading into a third day I can't play my main.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the meantime, I decided to play on one of my alts, Corpsegoddess, for a while.  Great, off we go.  Along my adventuring way, I need to make a quick stop-off in my Concordium Magical Tower.  And guess what?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Toon-Eating MMO: 2</span></span></strong>  vs. <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Sad Streppoch Player:  0</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I now have 2 stuck characters, same thing happens to both when I try to log them on, and one of them is STUCK IN ONE OF MY OWN HOUSES.  This is not even a new LU60 zone.  Now I'm afraid to zone anywhere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Could I please get some assistance?  Or at least get Strep unstuck so I can go about my business (but not the Othmir crafting questline, apparently).   Anyone?  Bueller?</span></p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>PM Me your Station Name and any incident number regarding this issue you may already have open.</p>

[SAMBOUKA]

<p>Same thing has been happening to me. Had to get a GM get one of my toons out of Permafrost. Myself and 3 other guildmates also couldn't enter Grozmag's Trial without crashing everytime. And again with another toon in Varsoons. Never had this problem before. The GM I spoke with told me there was going to be a patch to fix this problem this morning but I saw nothing in the patch notes and it still happened to me today. I've run a full file scan twice, still no success fixing this. No idea what is going on.</p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p>I've PM'd my details, still haven't heard anything back.  Still have both toons stuck as of last night.  I would REALLY like something to be done about this...not being able to play on my main is really a pill.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>We're looking in to it, we can move around just fine so it is probably a corrupt or incomplete zone file.  Are you using Station Launcher or the latest streaming or full LaunchPad?</p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p><p>For everybody's reference, I was able to resolve the issue myself.  Apparently there are problems with the LU and custom UI's--mine was with Fetish Nightfall specifically.  The fix can be found in this thread from EQ2 Interface:</p><p><a href="http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15697" target="_blank">http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/...ead.php?t=15697</a></p><p>And this is the post with the information you need:</p><p>"The following is a compare between the default interface (5.30.11) and the new default interface patched (GU60 5.31.11) on the right with changes in red. Use the context & line numbers to help find your way to make the changes needed to your custom interface.Patch Notes:USER INTERFACE</p><ul><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Raid tagging icons are now displayed in both the Target and Implied Target windows.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Your group is now notified whenever you change the tag icon or number on another character.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeatable quests will no longer be removed from your completed journal if the timer runs out on them.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Character Window should no longer default to Options for new characters.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Added Flurry to the Melee stats section of the Character Window.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Fixed a few resizing issues with the "Visit Inn Room" window.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some changes were made to the window arranging mode when you F10:<ul><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Window backgrounds will now display at 80% opacity.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Icons on hotkey windows will be visible but locked to allow you to drag the window by clicking anywhere.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You can hold the SHIFT key to enable the dragging of icons on the hotbar.</li></ul></li></ul><p><img src="http://www.eq2interface.com/images/style_mmoi_eq2i/icons/icon2.gif" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15696" target="_blank">More</a>Changed:eq2ui_commonelements.xmleq2ui_examine.xmle q2ui_gamedata.xmleq2ui_global_marketplace.xmleq2ui _IconStyles.xmleq2ui_loginscene.xmleq2ui_mainhud_e xperience.xmleq2ui_mainhud_impliedtarget.xmleq2ui_ mainhud_knowledge.xmleq2ui_mainhud_map2.xmleq2ui_m ainhud_persona.xmleq2ui_mainhud_target.xmleq2ui_ma inhud_zonereuse.xmleq2ui_newcharscene2.xmleq2ui_pl ayerhousing.xmleq2ui_popup_groupoptions.xmlimagesa renachampionsbattleground_thumbs.ddsimagesfrontend splash_logos.ddsimagesiconsicon_is108.ddsimagesico nsicon_is109.ddsimagessplashbkg.ddsNew:eq2ui_bg_li stboxrow_template.xmlimagesiconsicon_is110.ddsimag esmapsbattlegrounds_defense.dds"</p><p>I hope this helps anybody experiencing any similar issues, and maybe the tech team in assisting them.</p></p>

[drakkenshie]

<p>Fetish and other UIs have had issues.</p><p>However, I still get zone crashes and stuck characters even with default UI.</p><p>Basically GU60 has been very, very buggy for me.</p><p>I have no idea if any of this is related, but the following is a list of what I've seen since GU60's release:</p><p><ul><li>mouse moves sluggishly</li><li>mouse cursor does not move when mouse does</li><li>clicking hotbar icons does not do anything unless you click while moving the mouse sometimes (obviously all three of these are related)</li><li>lot of crashing in DoV zones regardless of interface</li><li>mobs flashing on and off in DoV starter areas as we fight</li><li>quest updates upon reaching a certain location taking several seconds or longer to register</li><li>pets failing to respond to attack commands and taking very odd paths in zones where they used to function well</li><li>choppy performance in zones where it was working well before</li></ul><div></div><div>That list is not comprehensive, and it doesn't seem all that related. However, all of those started happening to myself and a friend at the same time as the zone crashes after the GU60 release, so it makes me think that either there are just a lot of bugs, or maybe there is some obscure one that affects a lot of different parts of the game.</div><div></div><div>Since all of those seem to be performance related it makes me wonder if that is not a clue to some of the issues people are seeing.</div><div></div><div>I was going to start a more comprehensive thread with my own notes of GU60 bugs, but the forums are so noisy I'm not sure it will matter much.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p>I've also encountered the mouse issue you mentioned (mouse acting herky-jerky, clicking on CA's and nothing happening), but I thought it was just me.  Interesting. </p><p>It seems the Interface guys have narrowed down the zoning issue to the "zonereuse" .xml file, so just deleting that one file should help with the crashing.</p><p>But yes, this seems to be an overly-buggy LU.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/c30b4198e0907b23b8246bdd52aa1c3c.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>drakkenshield wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Fetish and other UIs have had issues.</p><p>However, I still get zone crashes and stuck characters even with default UI.</p><p>Basically GU60 has been very, very buggy for me.</p><p>I have no idea if any of this is related, but the following is a list of what I've seen since GU60's release:</p><p><ul><li>mouse moves sluggishly</li><li>mouse cursor does not move when mouse does</li><li>clicking hotbar icons does not do anything unless you click while moving the mouse sometimes (obviously all three of these are related)</li><li>lot of crashing in DoV zones regardless of interface</li><li>mobs flashing on and off in DoV starter areas as we fight</li><li>quest updates upon reaching a certain location taking several seconds or longer to register</li><li>pets failing to respond to attack commands and taking very odd paths in zones where they used to function well</li><li>choppy performance in zones where it was working well before</li></ul><div></div><div>That list is not comprehensive, and it doesn't seem all that related. However, all of those started happening to myself and a friend at the same time as the zone crashes after the GU60 release, so it makes me think that either there are just a lot of bugs, or maybe there is some obscure one that affects a lot of different parts of the game.</div><div></div><div>Since all of those seem to be performance related it makes me wonder if that is not a clue to some of the issues people are seeing.</div><div></div><div>I was going to start a more comprehensive thread with my own notes of GU60 bugs, but the forums are so noisy I'm not sure it will matter much.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></p></blockquote><p>After any LU or even after some weekly patches custom UI's have to be reset and updated. A lot of what you discribe can be attributed to out of date xml files in the UI, checn the ui error log to see where th errors are being thrown - check to see if the author of your UI is still keeping things up to date, if so patch the UI.</p>

[drakkenshie]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>After any LU or even after some weekly patches custom UI's have to be reset and updated. A lot of what you discribe can be attributed to out of date xml files in the UI, checn the ui error log to see where th errors are being thrown - check to see if the author of your UI is still keeping things up to date, if so patch the UI.</p></blockquote><p>I said clearly that this happens even with the default UI. Key phrases are "even with the default UI" and "regardless of interface".</p><p>All of the issues happen regardless of which UI I am using.</p><p>I wish it were something as simple as fixing the UI, I'd be done with it <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>