Locking Up When Zoning

[Niixnec]

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced the client locking up when zoning? Client will go to not responding and will need to shut the program down. Asked around the guild and several others have noticed

Believe it started around the same time as the last installer but cannot be positive. Get anywhere from 1-4 lockups a night now depending on how often I zone. During a raid aura gather with 3 characters starting with Versus I had 6 lockups when zoning into the various zones (Guild Hall, Overthere, Kedge were the ones I remember)

Has happened with all characters and various zones: HOH, Nadox, Volkara Instance, Guild Hall, Vale, Western Wastes,...

Background:
Been playing for 1yr + and have averaged 3-5 clients locking up while zoning during a month period.

PC's
Desktop is Win7 pro running all SOD clients (6-8 clients), misc graphics settings, average 45% memory usage when running all clients. Laptop is Win7 pro running SOD client (2 clients), pre-luclin graphics, average 25% memory usage. Using cable connection- Speedtest has it at 26Mbps down, 4Mbps up

Reset modem and router multiple times.

thanks

[Warlgor]

This seems to be an EQEmu wide problem, doesn't matter if you play on p1999 or EZserver or THF. Emu clients just have a tendency to crash or lock up or time out when zoning.

Throughout the years all the times I've heard of this complaint I have yet to hear about a solution, so unless someone else has an explanation I believe it's something that we all just have to live with, unfortunately

[techspec6]

Hey all,

I travel for my job so I'm constantly moving from hotel to hotel. I noticed this problem several consecutive nights in a hotel and didn't have the problem other nights in a different hotel down the road. I then noticed the problem again in a hotel farther away. This got me thinking...

When we zone, the port of the client connection changes. If either the router or the ISP is slowing or blocking this sort of port change (security?), then the game would crash on zone. So if you have access to an android phone with tethering, maybe try connecting to it instead and test zoning again. I've found my verizon android on 4G keeps up with the game very well in most areas and won't crash on zoning.

In my case, I ruled out the client by having it work in many hotels but not in a few others I've stayed in over the months I've played on THF.

Warbeat

[Bareth]

I had the same problem with lockups while zoning... here is my post, and more importantly, the follow-up post I made...

http://www.thehiddenforest.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=8044

[Dellanx]

I don't want to say that I totally fixed this problem, but I have been going LD sometimes whether I zone or not. So I seen somewhere on the boards of making a Security Rule for allowing traffic to and from www.thehiddenforest.org

Here it is:

The IP address of www.thehiddenforest.org is 195.5.177.21


The IP address 195.5.177.21 is assigned to France

Hope this helps