The Hidden Forest

Okay, here's an old problem I've had for as long as I've played on THF, and I'm finally tired of it.

Logging into the game usually goes fine up until the character select screen. When I click "enter world" there seems to be about a 50/50 chance of me getting in fine. The other half of the time, the game hangs up for anywhere from 5-10 minutes, then kicks me back to the login screen.

It's easy to know when I'm gonna get in, because the loading screen appears within a minute of clicking "enter world." If the game hangs up, the loading screen never appears, and I'm just left on the character screen until it crashes back to login.

I'm using the Titanium client (switching clients through legitimate means is not an option right now) installed fresh off my CDs in accordance with EQEmulator's Getting Started Guide. I am using THF's Custom Loginserver, because I thought the problem might've been due to EQEmu - it's not, it occurs on both. I'm running the game on Windows XP.

Here's the contents of dbg.txt in my Everquest/Logs directory.

I have been having the same problem but I've only been having it the last 3-4 days. Ever since my toons bugging up while raiding nadox on friday. I relogged the 3 toons whose AA's were bugged and they all crashed to login screen ever since that I have had trouble getting past the character select screen and for the toons that I am able to log in it takes forever to zone and 1/2 the time they will get kicked to login while zoning. I have tried several different things. I have done a full restore on my system 3 times now and have tried a different client. I was using titanium and now have tried SoD and still have the problem. I was able to log on to EZ server without a problem. I did another full restore today and am currently reinstalling the THF installer for titanium and SoD and will try again with both.

How exactly were your AAs bugged? And what happened in Nadox that bugged your characters?

Name of characters that are bugged?

Vaion wrote:How exactly were your AAs bugged? And what happened in Nadox that bugged your characters?

Name of characters that are bugged?

Its a pretty common AA bug I know a lot of people have. It usually happens after you die and get rez'd. After zoning some of the AA abilities of the effected character don't show up in the AA menu, usually the first thing I notice the AA that gives you a extra spell slot is gone and thus the character will only have 8 spells on their spell bar. I used to simply fix this by logging the toon out and back in. What happened in Nadox was I died on a few characters, when I got rez'd their AA's were bugged like I described above. But relogging only caused them to crash. Ever since then I have the problem with character select and zoning on all my characters. I have just been testing it with my main account Verreth is on.

... Makes me wonder if this is part of the AA zone crash that we have been having for awhile that I havent ever been able to recreate...


What exact AAs and/or class are the characters that are crashing like this?

I noticed it on my SK, Wiz, Mage, Rng, and Cleric. But the AA bug is minor compared to basically not being able to log in and stay logged in at the moment.

It's possible that the AA bug is what is causing the issue of the random LDs. Any chance that you know of what AAs are showing up as bugged? Also which client do you use?

Not sure which AA's. When I was able to log in, the AA's are not bugged anymore. I was using titanium. Now I am setuping up both titanium and SoD. If I am able to resolve this issue with the characters staying logged in, I will report which AA's are bugged next time that bug happens to me. Like I said its pretty common, I know my guildies get the same bug sometimes.

It was a internet issue it seems. I did some work on my router and called my ISP, in the end it seems to have been resolved. I will still keep a lookout for that AA bug and PM you when it occurs.