Crash Issue: Cross-Housing Zoning
I've began to run into an issue when Zoning into or between Housing (including GH) instances when working on things. I've been through the basic troubleshooting & arguing with SOE staff for a week thus far, and been able to track it down to EQ2Map.
What happens: After a few (after 2 really) times zoning, the game "hangs" for a bit after actually zoning. Specifically: the UI is visible (half faded out), as is the 3D "scene", the character, and only the mini-map is blank. This hang can last from 15 seconds to around infinity. Or, worse, EQ2 either does: 1: starts trying to relaunch itself (hourglass, see app try to launch in taskbar, hourglass, see app try to launch in taskbar.. endless loop). I can't quite catch the app that's being attempted but due to the icon, it appears to be a MS runtime exception catcher. 2: Simply crashes: Crash Information: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: EverQuest2.exe Application Version: 1.0.0.1 Application Timestamp: 50f70068 Fault Module Name: EverQuest2.exe Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1 Fault Module Timestamp: 50f70068 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00db14c1 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 0a9e Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Additional Information 3: 0a9e Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Troubleshooting: What points me directly to EQ2Map's UI? I remove all files in the /eq2map/ UI folder, and the game runs fine all day. However, this leaves me with a terrible useless map. UI.log? Beyond being helpfull: Couldn't load .xml Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags Encountered data outside of container tags (literally pasted).. No timestamps, no filenames, not even which UI element. Debug.log? No entries since Jan21 (assuming the first 4 digits are MMDD datestamped, and the Last Modified on the File info is Jan 21): [0121/143915:ERROR:ipc_channel_win.cc(360)] pipe error: 232 Other things done: completely removed (as above) all of EQ2MAP UI and data, ran the updater.. In case something happened to one of the files. Same problem. Now, keep in mind, EQ2 has ran fine for around 3 years for me, with EQ2map. So something recent in SOE's end parsing out the UI xml and/or data has to be the problem.. Since this mostly happens zoning into a housing instance (which usually has no map), it also points me to the minimap UI and/or it's blank zone default. |
Don't see what this has to do with EQ2Maps nor EQ UI's its not a UI issue its something to do with SoE's game and should be posted on Sony's forums
As for the UI Log and saying its a UI issue is it possible you have the updater pointing to another installation of eq2? The log you posted seems incomplete there should be a line above where the file failed to load with data outside the container tags. Deleting that file and reloading the game may or may not include it if it is indeed an error in a file but I get those sometimes and others the file never gets anything added to it. Just means something didn't initialize correctly during load or at least thats what I figured since I could reload my game and get no errors the next time around. |
Oh and I have been having that happen as well but just let it load and cycle. I too removed eq2maps and still found it doing that. So I'm not so sure it is eq2map related. The reply I got back from SoE was
1 UI Issue 2 Memory Isssue saying my machine didn't have enough memory so it was swapping some stuff out to page file. |
It's not EQ2MAP related, more likely a memory issue . The UI log always has crap like that in it, they're not errors so much as just notices that the game XML parser makes as it loads the UI (IIRC, even the default throws those notices). If you admit to using any kind of custom UI SOE will always say it could be that (as they don't want to waste time on issues that could be caused by custom UIs, thus they ask you to use the default and see if it's repro-able).
What is your system like? (Old or new, how much physical memory, what rough level of settings you run EQ2 on - try bumping them down and see if that prevents the crash). The problem being specific to housing with crashes is very well known: normal zones are SOE built and use a limited spectrum of objects to keep the zone running smooth, but the huge amount of house items available (and their moveable/dynamic nature) means a lot more memory needed compared to a zone that might be physically bigger but made up of identical set of textures reused over and over. |
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- And yes, I have rolled drivers back and updated, makes no difference.. Game still hangs on that "Fade-In" as it loads the map. Quote:
- That's the entire contents of the file. No filenames, no line numbers, no element names.. Nothing. Quote:
- Nope. I've never had more than one installation of EQ2, since it is fairly impossible to run more than one anyway. The installation is in the default \Public\ user folder as well. Quote:
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Either way, if SOE changed something around Nov/Dec last year and didn't bother telling anyone, or it's something bum with the "blank zone" handler; it doesn't matter since SOE techs & devs won't talk to me about it, and don't see to give a squat as long as the game runs without someone else's stuff. |
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That being said EQ2 is an old program it will no ever use more than 4 gibs of memory. If I recall they have even said it will crash at 2 gigs of memory. However I somehow got past a ton of memory crashes would have to go back and see what settings I changed. I get this game stall issue as well and tried it with and without eq2maps and still get the error on housings zones, instances like the sig quest line and a few other places. Yes it also appeared around the release of CoE or shortly before so yes Nov/Dev of 2012 for me. Clear your cache and or reinstall the game might fix the crash issue but really memory related issues are hard to track down. Its not a matter of HOW much memory you have it can be something as simple as a driver for something being loaded to some browser running and other things. Quote:
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Odd, not sure what to recommend if it's happening even under those circumstances. If you hide the minimap, does it stop the crashes? IIRC the minimap normally stays on the map for the old zone until zoning is basically complete, when it switches directly to the new map without going blank or anything. Even when there's no map, EQ2MAP should make it use the default "hey there's no map" image with the EQ2MAP logo and whatnot.
If you think that could be the issue somehow, you can go into your UI/EQ2MAP/eq2map2/ folder and try editing core_nomap.xml and remove everything except the opening initial xml delcaration, the opening full <Page> tag and the closing </Page> tag at the end (that should make the default no-map map basically blank). I'd be surprised if that was the issue, but it's certainly easy to test. |
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I'll give it a shot, anyhow. You have NO idea how terrible it is trying to use the map with only yellow dots and quest feathers! :eek: Quote:
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If emptying the blank map XML doesn't fix it, I'll try the whole uninstall, back up all my char UIsettings (one file: UI_WIndowMode.xml) since that's a serious pain to do by hand, delete the entire Sony Online /public/ folder, and start from scratch. Not tonight, tho. THis has been a serious pain. |
Woot. NoMap crash fixed.. For now..
Alright.. So, after a few weeks of digging around, testing, restoring.. :confused:
I uninstalled SOE's EQ2, deleted the entire Public user's Sony folder, and grabbed EQ2 from Steam (Since I have many other games through them), was gifted CoE, and downloaded the whole thing in about 2hrs. Changed EQ2map's EQ2 folder accordingly, updated it.. Then did the core blank removal of Page to Page. ;) From my experimentation above, I figured out a trick so I dont have to edit it every update... Quote:
TY for that awesome suggestion. o7 |
Glad to hear blanking the nomap seemed to fix it. No idea why that would be causing a crash, but as old a codebase as EQ2 is it's well known to have random unreproducible crashes. The nomap page is really old as well as I recall, I wonder if maybe it has to do with the button, since it was originally coded for the old browser.
BTW, if you don't want to have to worry about making it read-only you can just add this line to your eq2map_ignorelist.xml: Code:
<File Name="_Skinnable_WindowElementsMini.xml" /> Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
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