Originally posted by AryHann
Maybe not really strictly related, but, I died today and it was quite odd:
1) A gobble killed me but it took sometime before it was realizing that I was dead. It was like stuck a bit on 0% without do anything
2) I end up in the DR and I was lying on the floor. I moved, and I was still lying on the floor
3) I contacted a GM, that kindly told me that a solution could have been to quit and restart the client. I did it and it worked.

Ary

Yeah, known bug, however the first one is new and interesting. I\'ve never heard of everyone being dead.

did a restart fix that as well?

no, it\'s a fix. once you finish it\'s actually fixed

a work around would be a way to continue using the character even though hes broken. you use a workaround to get to a point where you can fix it, then you fix it, then it\'s.......


fixed.


and who said waste a slot? if you already have another char, use him, if not make one that you plan on using one day.

I never said make a pos waste of a slot char.



and you can reload till hell freezes over and it wont fix the db on the server.

OK, here\'s how to fix the uber lag/0.0 framerate problem that some of us are experiencing.

The problem as I have observed it is due to a corruption in the database. In your info window when you are looking at the effected character, note that your stats are all messed up. not just the fps, but something else too. for me it was my progression points, and my experience points, I was displaying something like 618,000 pp, and something like 617 million experience points. This apparently is just too much leetness for the game to handle, and the entire world just freezes in your presence.

However, if the info window is closed, aparently the game doesn\'t know it\'s borked and therefor you can play normally (semi)

What you need to do is create a different character if you don\'t already have one.  while in that character, close the info window, as the window states are client side. This will cause the info window to be close on your effected character, and you will be able to log into and use him/her.

From here you need to fix your database corruption. Pretty simple really, the game keeps the value of your pp in multiple parts of the db, so when you train, or fight a mob or whatever, it takes the good info from a different part of the db and overwrites the messed up value.

Now you can go ahead and open your info window again and play normally.


All fixed!!!


have fun!

Well I figured it out. I can explain what is causing the problem but not how to fix it.

It is defenitely a corruption in the database.

in my stats window it reads

fps: 0.0
experience: 617280151
and progression points 618,219

when my stats window is open (the one with the attack postures, health bars etc) my game lags like heck, when it\'s closed i can move around freely. It too in game help with gms to find this out, but that\'s what it is. defenitely.

I opened my stats window to see if the stats were fixed when I was able to move again and the game instantly borked again.

so if you can play without the dang window open I would suggest that.

at least till a better fix is available.

I have no idea how my info window got closed to begin with, it just happened and I was able to move.

but when it opened again it was broke again...

I\'ll toy around with my data\\gui stuff and try setting the window to invisible or something. I\'ll post the results.

And the meaning of life is..... 23.


Anyway, this is kinda like the bug of mobs always having \"1%\" left when you select them. Even though it\'s obviously actually 100% judging by their health bar.

I wonder if you could quantify how many hp they actually had as a number you would see... *drumroll* 23.

OK, update:

I created a new character and the problem is non existant on him. I\'m guessing it\'s a problem with some sort of corruption in the player database that occured between yesterday and today.

Might wanna break out the database tools and do a consistency check or something.


That of course would mean bringing down the server completely while you do it.

This actually makes sense with the obvious problem with the mob server, and the mobs reading 1 health when they are at 100, and the anomalous \"dummy no attack\" items popping up. seems like some heavy duty database maintenance is in order.

All these things may or may not be connected but it\'s rather odd that they are all happening at the same time.

Originally posted by Harkin
well people dont usually respond unless they can help, or have something useful to say, if no one can help, then most likely there will be no replies...

Yeah, I know, but even a \"me too\" so we know whether or not it\'s isolated can be useful to the people who do the code crunching around here.

Originally posted by Moogie
We all read the same forums supergrover, please don\'t post duplicate threads in different areas. Means more work for me deleting them.

To attach a dump, host the file somewhere on the Internet and then URL link it in a post.

I have no doubt we all read the same forums... after all I got 97 views to that thread before it was deleted. We just don\'t seem to respond.....

Here\'s my dump file

dump.dmp