Zone crashes

rabbet330

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Posts: 2

Zone crashes

« on: December 17, 2019, 07:22:40 am »

I am sometimes unable to enter a new zone. It'll say "Entering such-and-such" zone and stay there. The Everquest load screen does not appear. After a minute or two it gives up, and informs me that the zone is unavailable. I believe it also returned me to the character select screen, at which point my character does start in the desired zone.

Is there any way to fix this? I run a private EQemu server and usually this is caused by a problem with the large map files in my emulator directory, NOT the small text files (ending in (_1, _2, _3) in the Everquest game directory. But I don't see how that would apply here, unless there's something wrong on the server side. I am running the ROF2 client and have applied the EZserver-specific text/patch files.


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Othik

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Posts: 5

Re: Zone crashes

« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2019, 06:03:02 pm »

This seems to happen to me a lot. It seems it mostly happens for zones that aren't loaded. The only workaround I know of is once I see one of my toons not zoning I can make another one of my toons enter that zone and soon as the second toon starts zoning the first one unfreezes and they both zone in at the same time.


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Othik

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Re: Zone crashes

« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2019, 08:51:30 am »

Forgot to mention this happens just logging into an unloaded zone as well. Just logged my Warrior in for the first time today and he was logged out inside of one of my instances. Soon as I hit Enter World on Character Select screen that client froze up. Instead of waiting 3-5 minutes for it to unfreeze and knowing my other toons are logged out there, I logged my Cleric in. Soon as Cleric hits Enter World my Warrior unfreezes and both log in at same time.

Not the best work around but it works every time for me.


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Rakharth

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Re: Zone crashes

« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2019, 10:55:59 am »

Just spitballing here but do you load toons with mq on? If so try without and see if still happens. Also have you changes any to some kind of custom ones? Maybe download a fresh client and see if it does it on new one.


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Othik

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Posts: 5

Re: Zone crashes

« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2019, 11:23:59 am »

I haven't tried it without MQ2 yet. It doesn't happen every time I zone into unloaded zones but it does happen enough to be annoying. When I'm playing with my full group it's less of an issue because I'm zoning multiple toons at once which is my workaround of fixing the issue anyway. I recently changed MQ2 builds that I was using in the last few days. Problem still exist with my newer MQ2 build. Will have to do some testing without MQ2 to see if that's what causing it but my money is on the client.

I am using RoF2 like OP said. Might have to try another download if I can find one. I played EZ back in 2013 with Underfoot (I think) and I notice I'm having a ton of issues now that I didn't have back then. Just been dealing with them but if this isn't a common issue for everyone I might try to pin it down.


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Rakharth

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Re: Zone crashes

« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2019, 11:54:06 am »

http://tinyurl.com/rof2dl thats from the getting started wiki thats the one ive been using with no issues.


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