Black holes and invisible people

[Ibn]

We are still working on the issues that have been causing massive lag and other server issues since this weekend.

Here's what you can do to help:

Have you experienced either of the following since the patch?

* Being in a dungeon and suddenly running into an spot where your 3D area went completely black

* Players being invisible and not able to interact with monsters

If so please reply in this thread with the details and most specifically, EXACTLY WHEN this occured.

[Davidge]

I think this was Wednesday night Jan 28th around 9 PM Pacific: My wife was on the Bobo quest, she went around to Bobo's right hand side and exactly half her screen went completely black. She was able to move in and out of the effect and noted that it was in line with the ceilings height change just behind Bobo.


Sunday Feb 1 around 3 PM Pacific. The Sanctuary Recall quest, one of the lvl 50 characters died in the north top lvl room, just at the door controlled by the second lever set. Instead of appearing at the LS, they appeared with Vitea and no buffs right back in the middle of the Wisps that killed them. Thankfully their second death (which was immediate) dropped them at the LS instead of going into a repeat loop.

[Piley]

This happened on my nVidia TI-4200 system when I logged in for the first time this patch. I got it to stop doing this by turning off my Z-BUFFER setting in the 3-D Video Settings.

I was located in my villa's basement at the time.

Piley

[Kyo_AC]

Black Screen

I experienced this problem in the Tusker Honeycomb Saturday afternoon shortly after I got out of portal killed the first Assailer. Then I spent 10 min rebooting/relogging in & out of game to see if the problem would clear up by itself. The problem was still there. After that I recalled to my lifestone to see if the black screen problem still persisted. It cleared up & my screen was back to normal. I then went back to the Tusker Honeycomb to see if the problem would return & it didn't.

Hope this bit of info helps Ibn.

[Xantcha]

Friday Jan 30 around 5 est in the Elemental Weeping Dungeon on Darktide...last recalling back into the dungeon didn't fix the problem but relogging did. Hope that helps.

[Shidoshi]

Rampager dungeon I blacked out inside it several times, I sent urgent message with exact landblock once, no reply came back.

Sunday mid afternoon rampager dungeon blacked out again inside, on main level opposite the drop down to lower levels. Intense lag inside also

[VoHin]

Tusker Holding, upper level, altar room, Sunday afternoon about 4pm pst (don't remember exact time) was able to attack, one hit at a time, and never the same tusker.

On the same note, i just visited the Tusker Holding(2:45 pst) and there are no tuskers in there at all, and i ran through dungeon 2 times, logged out and back in and there is only one corpse

I play on WE.

[Silent37911]

Happened to a few people in the clan multiple times before the last patch, but after the server move. It always happened inside a dungon and usually a reboot would take care of the problem.

[Daz'ar Tae]

Sclavus Temple dungeon (near Candeth Keep) about 5:30 EST to 6:30 EST. Sorry, best estimate I can give about times.

[Logan Blade]

I haven't seen this black out problem in the dungeons but I get it when I recall to my house probably 4 out of 5 times sometimes moving away from it gets rid of it but sometimes I just have to wait a few minutes.

I actually think that it is system related to my antique computer.

The other black out problem is usually repetetive on New Years Eve but that one I'm not sure the devs have a fix for :D .

Good luck,
Logan

[dangerousimage]

It happened to me when I was going down to the tusker emporium. I ran into complete darkness. I thought I was stuck but when I moved around a little, I got dropped off a cliff near the emporium. I survived the drop and since it was my first time there, I went back to see if it was just a glitch or if it was a trap/trick. Next time I just got stuck and after alot of attempts, only managed to get out by doing a lifestone recall. I play on frostfell and It was around 11pm I think.

[Jarella]

I had that happen a couple of times...but that was before the patch...even before the server move...was in BDC I think...got stuck screen went black..couldnt move couldnt see..logging out and in fixed it. Have not had it happen since the patch.

[brawny]

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the Tusker Holding would be perfectly normal through anywhere from 30-60 minutes of killing spawns. After that time it would gradually start to slow down for no apparent reason. Leaving the dungeon for 10 minutes or so seemed to restore things to normal.

I've seen three black screens. The first was Friday night in the Tusker Holding around 10pm on Leafcull. I didn't recognize anything specific to cause the black screen. The second black screen occurred Saturday afternoon around 3PM. While fighting with a spawn I noticed that tuskers would repeatedly turn to attack a character that was not visible to me, or did not exist at all maybe (the one other person in the dungeon said they were elsewhere at the time). The tuskers would then mostly turn back to attack me except for one which continued to bash on the air. As I attacked the last tusker I saw no damage being done to it. As I broke attack I got the black screen I saw my target selection shring (as if I had portaled out) and then vanish. Logout failed to work, however using a spell based recall worked fine. House recall also failed. The third and final black screen I saw was around 11PM Saturday. Right at the entrance I engaged the spawn and killed all but one that was beating on the wall. I figured this tusker was bugged, and sure enough as I attacked I dealt no damage. Breaking from attack immediatly sent me to the black screen as described before.

All times are Pacific and the last time may be incorrect however I did file an urgent assistance request when it happened if that helps to narrow the time down.

[Sohiyuishi]

if I log in inside my house it always seems to be blank for a while, then things start to show up. Almost every single time I recall to my Cottage it's balck, and I get texstrure problems (mouse trails, and the side panel double exposed if I close it while the 3D view is black.)

Doesn't happen recalling to the allegiance mansion, and didn't happen at all when I went to my old apartment. I am in East Sawato Cottages, second one on the right coming out from the portal. (kinda in the corner of the little cul de sac)

[DrewtheEnforcer]

It's happened to me twice. Once in Tusker Holding and again in Honeycombs. Both times I had been fighting solo for awhile when all of a sudden the screen turns black. You can still hear sound and your backpacks are still viewable. I used a Monkey Island recall gem to get out since I couldn't access the spell tabs. Holding happened within about 3 min and Honeycombs after about 30 min.

I should point out that both of these dungeons are on the same island. So maybe the bug is limited to that area. I have spent a fair amount of time inside Chapel of Mowen (a low level place) with no problems and its located near Monkey Town which is a different island than Holding and Honeycombs.

As for exact times, I can't recall exactly but I think the problem in Holding was Sat evening 1/31 and Honeycombs Sunday morning between 9 and 10 AM central.

[GreyHulk]

I also had to turn off my Z buffer on my P3 win xp computer right after I downloaded the patch. Witch was Saterday I belive. This cleared up my Darkness. I login at Qal when this Prob started.

Then Sunday afternoon The lag was so bad in Tusker Honeycombs I couldnt even play. I reloged several times but It dint help. Then I loged back on around 8:00 Pm Montain time and Had no problems after that.

[SpACatta]

It was Saturday (1/31) Night at about 9 or 10 PM. We were on the Bobo Quest, at the entrance to the first ramp (the huge sloped room where Tuskers come from the side-rooms), and we were fighting, but all of a sudden, our attacks continued, but no attack message was given, then three of us slipped into a black screen where we could still hear the combat around us, but nobody could see us. I restarted the computer, and logged back in and was still at blackness.

I had to recall to escape.

[SpACatta]

Piley and GreyHulk, that's a totally different bug that's been around longer than this. I had the same thing.

We're not talking about a graphics problem. This is a server/dungeon problem.

[Totally-Sober]

Today Febuary 2nd around 5:30 pm, i went into Tusker Armory and after going down a bit I started getting massive grafix lag could barly move.

[Cuttler]

Friday night around 11 pm central (give or take a half hour or so) on MT. Bobo quest, second dungeon just in the doorway to the long wide steep ramp. The usual lag pause occured with the tusker running in place and the characters swaying. Than my screen went black. Could still communicate. I was able to get out of combat and put my orb in hand and recall out. As soon as I did I got my picture back.

Other party members had other problems. Most coudnt get out of combat. One died, unable to fight or flee. Two people did make it to the bottom and than got their pictures back.

An urgent assistant report was sent immediately.

[TheeAngryOne]

When my surroundings are black, I just type /render radius 5

[ashcall_2]

I have found a black hole in the 40+ olthoi dungeon, it exsists right after the entrance in the hallway at the VERY FIRST t-intersection. the landblock directly to the left of it was blacked out, and when i attempted to continue through this black hole, the console stopped responding, this was in the month that the 40+ olthoi dungeon was added, and has occured the several times I went there in that event, didnt test to see if it crashed me again.

There was also a few incidents where a monster would appear to one of my friends or myself, and one of us would see and not be able to interact with a monster, nor would the monster move, note that only one of the computers running ac would see one of these monsters at any given time, and the other computers playing ac on the network wouldn't, it appears to be completely random, the first time this happened(non bias to creature account character or world) was with black rats in teth approx. november of the first year of release. Then dec of this month on a new account there was a tusker in SORS that had this same issue.

[Plug]

Happened 3 times today (black screen), 1st one I didn't notice time or place (I was on Jojii quest) and the other 2 happened at 5.15 and 5.21 pm Monday 2nd February in the 80+ matron dungeon.

[SpACatta]

"Friday night around 11 pm central (give or take a half hour or so) on MT. Bobo quest, second dungeon just in the doorway to the long wide steep ramp. The usual lag pause occured with the tusker running in place and the characters swaying. Than my screen went black. Could still communicate. I was able to get out of combat and put my orb in hand and recall out. As soon as I did I got my picture back.

Other party members had other problems. Most coudnt get out of combat. One died, unable to fight or flee. Two people did make it to the bottom and than got their pictures back.

An urgent assistant report was sent immediately."


There we go. That's the same experience I had, except the different details I posted above. Same place in the dungeon, too.

[SpACatta]

Ashcall, you like others, are listing a problem that's completely different from this one.

That ones has also been around a while, and is easily fixed.

[RailgunFF]

This happened to my axer in the Deeper Catacombs while hunting with 2 clanmates. I ran around a corner and it was like running into an inkwell. My screen went pitch black, I could see chat messages and my paper doll but nothing in the main window.

I tried jumping and got the message "You cannot jump while in midair". I logged off and on again and it was fine. Has not happened to me since.

I believe this was the day that Frostfell came up after the move.

[cptcruch]

i was in tusker holding arounf 8-830 pm est sunday night and i hit the tunnel near the first trap. Screen went balck and the two other ppl with me had same black scree, we were able ot use gems to get out.........we later went back in and didnt go itno tunnels and everything worked as it should

[Larytia]

It happened to me just now.

02/03/04 12:12AM MST, happened in Tusker Abode. Screen went black, was unable to attack anything, and was not able to logout. I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL and then it killed the client.

[Romen]

I have experienced the " Being in a dungeon and suddenly running into an spot where your 3D area went completely black" problem a few times over the past few years, but specifically after DM was released, though i bet you are probably trying to track down reasent occurances.... But i will explain what I have done in the past to 'fix' the issue.

Normally I found it is caused by the Cell.dat to be corrupted, the condition i found can be duplicated by using old Decal pluggins which aren't or weren't properly working.. specifically ones which deal with landblock reading. I think what happens is the Cell.dat file is probably been tried to be written to by 2 things at once, or maybe read and write at the exact same time.

A short-term and annoying fix is to delete the cell.dat or restore the cell.dat from the CD-ROM. A downloadable complete, new Cell.dat would be cool btw.... :)

edit: its not always caused by decal, i didnt mean that if it came across that way.

[Wing]

Sorry I can not recall the date or time but I know it was after patch and before Decal was fixed.

I was in Olthoi Arcade fighting the drones. There were two others in there and all 3 of us were experiencing a huge lag issue. I was on my level 20 UA character buffed with 7's and the power turned all the way down. I think I was swinging once every 5 or 6 seconds. The bugs were still hitting me at a normal rate.

First time I ran it was normal but when I stopped it looked like I was on a rubber and it bounced me all the way back to the starting point. 2nd time I ran it looked like I was running in slow motion. Once I got free I was able to mansion recall and everything was ok.

I have not been back since. Sorry :(

[ClarenceXidLion]

Ran through about 9:00 pst on Sunday. No tuskers no people. No tusk.
Also Lastnight during a G man quest was booted out of game with the message Failed to leave chat. Was about 8:00pst. in the Library dungeon.

[Mistikal]

* Being in a dungeon and suddenly running into an spot where your 3D area went completely black



Was running a follower thru the 80+ Tusk ( Honeycombs )when we were about mid way thru I engaged with an Assailer when it sent me to black screen.

I could chat, and see her chat but could not manipulate my char in any fashion.

I attempted to log off and when I did, I got the prompt saying that I could not log off in mid air.

When my friend selected me in the fellow panel, it pointed to me in the sky, like I was hundreds of ft up in the air.

I eventualy had to alt tab out to close that way and re-log. That didnt work as I was right back where I was in the air except this time I was able to go in and out of combat and recall out. I still had black screen tho.


here is a SS of me saying wtf? I can't log.


http://server5.uploadit.org/files/Bulldog-MIDAIR.jpg

Not sure what happen, but after I recalled and ran back, I didn't have a problem.

[Yinchi]

I was in the subway yesterday on Solclaim. I noticed if I stepped over one area, that area was black, I could step back again and it cleared.

[Alex deChaz]

I was hunting Vod in a 4 person fellow in valley two at 9:30 pm PST, 2/2/04 on Morningthaw. We attacked a pod of 3 Virindis, two were invisible and could be targeted by me with the next monsters key but could not be attacked by me. The other folks in the fellow could see them and attack them. I was still able to target and heal my fellows.

[Calladyn]

After a lot of server side lag in the rampager dungeon I was in some tunnels leading to the second altar room when after a fight I experienced a lot of lag as if I was about to disconnect but instead my screen went blank and I was unable to interact with anything though I was still able to recieve fellowship experience, and chat. I was however able to equip a casting item and alphus lassel recall out of the dungeon. I am using nvidia geforce 2 card if that helps.

[Aghrim]

monday feb 2nd around 11:00 at night. logged in and everything was black, now that i remember the 3d box popped up before i logged in and wouldnt let me check the use 3d acceleration saying that my video card wasnt compatible. so i hit ok...logged in...was all black..so i logged out opened the 3d box thing again and i was able to check 3d acceleration, so i logged in and it worked fine.

[The Spectre]

My main character on Frostfell, The Spectre, has been unable to attack for the past two days. No matter what weapon I arm (xbow or melee) when I click the attack buttons (Low Medium or High) the bar starts to charge, and then nothing happens. I can cast spells, and using Eltank I have been able to attack with my crossbow.

[Ophar Kabitaki]

Sunday running Bobo. At the big Ramp in dungeon two we were midfight when all the tuskers suddenly disappeared. Running down we started fighting in the portal room, the ones behind got caught in a spawn of the full force of the ramp tuskers. We also experienced the entire fellow becoming combat locked and all had to relog to fix that, since we couldn't interact with monsters or cast while locked.

[SpACatta]

Romen is listing yet another already-discovered and easily-fixable bug. That's the missing landblock bug, and is simply caused by one landblock not downloading fully upon login, and is user-specific.

[OMMu]

Not sure if this quaifies as the same bug as in the Tusker dungeons, however in Phyntos Menace near Stonehold there seems to be a problem with one of the grievver spawns. In the center of the dungeon is a small lever room where one griever normally spawns. Since the jan patch, or at least in the past 3 days, the grievver in that room doesn't spawn. You can hear the griever but it can't be seen or tageted, and it doesn't attack. There is also a bit of flashing going on in that room, not to black but just a subtle flickering. This seems to be causing quite a bit of lag in that room.


Maybe this is related to the other problem?
Hadn't seen this posted here yet, just thought i'd throw it out there.
Oh and this is on Wintersebb.

[Bob Down]

I just fell in one of these "black holes" about an hour ago. I find it interesting that, despite reporting it to Urgent Assistance about 8 times over an hour, I haven't had one single reply. This is what we're paying extra for is it? [/sarcasm]

Anyhow, it was exactly 22:54 pm Australian eastern standard, 4/2/04. The landblock (after I fell in the hole of course) was 01430159, X:40.1, Y:-58.9, Z:0.0, H: 1.$

At the time I was in the Phyntos Menace dungeon. I had just run into the "bunker" in the center room to kill the Harrower Griever that spawns in it. As I went through the doorway... bang.

There's a screenshot here
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ozbaz/ac/ACscrn0317.jpg

I could still hear what was going on around me, but I couldn't do anything, not even logoff. Logging told me I was falling and couldn't. I could still send tells and chat in the fellow, but it seems noone could hear me. I could hear them fine, in both open chat and fellow chat.

My character is still stuck there, it would be nice if one of your lazy Admins could perhaps look into this at their leisure. The character name is Londo Molari. (on Solclaim) If you require further information, I do have most of it logged. I can't recall with this guy, can't move, can't do anything. None of his UI commands seem to do a thing. Tried gems, portal and lifestone spells, text recalls, nothing works.

[Deven-Kenyon]

i just had a vassal stuck on AL in habitat. she had a black screen, with a big W on radar where the green + should have been. I logged on her and saw the same, so it wasn't just her, or her computer

+Admin Dread moved her, thank heaven and maybe now she'll stay off island till you guys have it working again

[Ibn]

Originally posted by OMMu
Not sure if this quaifies as the same bug as in the Tusker dungeons, however in Phyntos Menace near Stonehold there seems to be a problem with one of the grievver spawns. In the center of the dungeon is a small lever room where one griever normally spawns. Since the jan patch, or at least in the past 3 days, the grievver in that room doesn't spawn.

I believe it is related -- if possible, could you give us the exact @loc where this is happening?

To everyone else -- if you have any reports of creatures spawning invisibly or inside objects, please post them on this thread and provide the world and @loc if possible.

Actually, an @loc with the black screen reports would also be useful, now that I think of it.

[The Spectre]

I need to retract the bug I was having with being unable to attack anywhere. It turns out that I had a decal filter that is outdated, and that was causing the problem. Took me hours to hunt it down after I logged into the game on my laptop and could attack just fine... :D

[OMMu]

Here is the loc of the area in the Pyntos menace:
Your location is Landblock: 01430157, X: 40.7, Y: -47.2, Z: 0.4, H: 195.7

I guess its pretty much the same as the one Bob Down posted. Also the two grievers were back as normal when i went to check for the loc at 7:30 EST on WE. I guess you guys fixed it! Thanks!

posted this just in case.

[Plug]

Happened again today; black screen, dumped out to desktop. Log back in, at lifestone.

This was in the 80+ matron dungeon, at the bottom of the 1st slope on the right from the entry @5.31pm PST. (Fostfell).

[Ibn]

Originally posted by OMMu
Here is the loc of the area in the Pyntos menace:
Your location is Landblock: 01430157, X: 40.7, Y: -47.2, Z: 0.4, H: 195.7

I guess its pretty much the same as the one Bob Down posted. Also the two grievers were back as normal when i went to check for the loc at 7:30 EST on WE. I guess you guys fixed it! Thanks!

Sadly, no, we made no changes to this location.

You can see why tracking down this bug has been difficult -- sometimes it occurs, sometimes it does not.

[Tektek]

I didn't realize this was a bug.. but I was in phyntos dungeon myself 2 days ago and got lost so I portal recalled to the front of the dungeon. Then I took off into the dungeon again and ran into a guy (in the first room to the right of the entrance area) who told me that I was completely invisible except for the floating buadren in my hand..lol. Just thought I'd mention it.

Edit to add: I had no problems interacting with monsters..and other people could see me. Just the one guy said I was invisible.

~Tektek - Solclaim

Edit2 : One more thought.. maybe totally unrelated. The lever room in the phyntos dungeon.. every time i would try to approach one of the levers to pull it I would just get rubber banded away from the lever like something was pushing me back. I had to approach the lever as slow as possible so it didn't push me away. This happened with wasps and without wasps in the room.. and I was having a consistent 2-3% packet loss in that dungeon the entire night I was there (spent a good 10 hours there on Tuesday from 2pm est till around 12:30a.m. est).

[Chromium Golem]

This happened at about 12:30 AM this morning on Harvestgain.

Did Bobo last night on HG with some vassels.
When we got to the big ramp down just before the portal to the part where the reapers are we had a huge problem.

When we started down the ramp me screen went black in the playing area and so did my vassels. I could still hear the sounds and talk to them but they could not see me on radar anyplace near them.

I tried the /render radius 5 and nothing. Then I had to logoff and completely shut down my PC. MY PC was messed up I am pretty sure it took a dump.

Anyway, I logged back on after rebooting and got in game and it was still all black in the playing area. I looked up at my compass and the "N,S,E,W" was gone but the "W" was at the center of compass.

So, I had to recall to Aphus Lassel drop and run all the way back to Bobo dungy. I made it back in but the lag in the area of the big ramp was awful. We could hardly move.

We managed to finish the quest after about 2 hours, but we always do it in less than an hour.

[hcci]

Playing on wintersebb . Experiencing frequent crashes to desktop while in matron hive east+80 (2-3 per hour) . No black-outs, just crashes . Never had this problem before the january patch .

[Keeper]

On Solclaim, Last night in white wasp dungeon , 7:00 est. I couldnt attack, couldnt talk couldnt heal but could run and watch chat on my screen.( and no I wasnt using decal or any plug ins) also my char la belle was see thru if i went up into the hallways. Also, not sure how ppl this happeneed to , last night at around 9 est we were going on G man quest and in the golem spawn dungeon we were so lagged ping times went thu the roof.
Wed night in center room of wasp dungeon about 8 est, there were 3 wasps that were bugged that we couldnt attack

[Will]

In the world of Thistledown, Olthoi hive North dungeron, past deeper catacombes and into the next portal that comes out into a large swarm of pure soldiers. all exits from here are black and the screen goes black when entered. This occurs over 90% of the time I go there. I am using windows XP pro on new pentium 4 computer with 1 gig of ram. Also 5 disconnects in ohn dungeon in last two days. Character died twice from disconnects. Only saved when if in fellowship with good friends.

Caine swordfighter

[Will]

Its still there. This time it happened to a fellow who is using dial up modem and an older computer. And I was disconnected twice.
OHN deeper catacombs where we are portaled into a swarm of pure soldiers.

Caine swordfighter

[hcci]

Still experiencing most too often disconnects and crashes to desk top. Can we get any guidance on this, why it's happening and what is being done about it. It's been several weeks since patch and, quite frankly, disappointing that turbine hasn't fixed this .

[DracheSC]

Not sure if this is related, but...

At all times throughout the entire Phyntos Menace Dungeon (on Solclaim anyway) there is a V E R Y annoying clicking sound. The sound is that which is made by a Grievver moving, only its amplified by about 10x! And all the while, the Grievver in the center of the dungeon is absent, and throughout the main room are large, odd shaped invisible blocks of nothing that your char cannot pass through.

After having +Admin Essex come to the dungeon to investigate, (this was on Friday, February 6th, between 1 and 4PM EST) he was able to hear the sound, and he contacted someone else about it. Sevral hours later, +Admin Essex returned, and shut down the dungeon for approx. 15 minutes. After this 15 minute periode, everything returned to normal, for a time. I cannot say exactly when the dungeon wen't back to being bugged, because I was logged off when it did, but the next day it was exactly the same, only the clicking sound was worse.

Also throughout the entire dungeon, your characters head (and upper torso, some times) will repeatedly disappear and reappear as you move.

[Tektek]

Also on Solclaim in Phyntos menace dungeon today - Saturday Feb 7.. I happened to be standing next to this guy whose character completely froze in mid attack animation. I could actually see that his character was frozen.. he was in mid swing and it just stopped there. He couldn't move at all, couldn't jump, couldn't get out of attack mode but he could still speak and see what I was saying. I just stood there healing him till all of a sudden he went poof and disappeared.. no pink swirlies to signify him logging out or anything, he was just gone. Very bizarro problems happening in this dungeon.
And yes the clicking noise is still very abundant as is running into invisible things that won't let you pass by.

[MIdnightFire7]

Wintersebb

20+ Matron Hive, Nanto
60+ Matron Hive, Uziz

Many crashes to desktop. Atleast 2 per level 7 buff. Was fine till Jan. patch.

[Sho Nilrem]

Your location is Landblock: 5c450347, X: 243.6, Y: -70.2, Z: 0.0, H: 1.$ this is on Harvestgain in the tusker abode... i had just finished killing all but on redeemer here on Sho' mace when i moved into a hole hm also of not was the last tusker i was unable to hit it though i was targeted on it.... also i rean a toon from a diff acct. there and the tuskers appeared to be hitting thin air where i knew my toon to be standing.... gurss that is about all lol now i am off to bed

[Plug]

Again in 80+ matron dungeon, at 10:50 ish pm, Sunday Feb 8th, on FF, blacked out and desk top..... this is getting really old and stale..... plus I'm running out of DI's. Are you doing anything for your customers?

[Plug]

Oh come on, happens in the same place when I go to get corpse (11:05). Whats going on with this game?..... the game is turning into a chore.

[Azeroth]

I dont know if this is a lag issue but we ran the Frore quest, sunday night at approximately 1150 pm we got to the chest.
As I was empting the chest everything in it dissapeared. I closed the chest and opend it several times but everything was gone from inside.
Fortunately I had the forethought to get the quest items first .

This was on the FF server btw.




Hope this helps,
Azeroth

[Fini]

I ran into the black screen problem on sunday, feb 8 around 8:20 PST. We had a fellow in the Bobo quest dungeon, in the second dungeon, i believe, about half our fellow had same problem, black screen but could hear the monkey noises kinda loud, like i had alt-tabbed out to desktop( in game noises get loud on me like that)

This was on Thistledown.

[Deven-Kenyon]

vassal is stuck in honeycombs. she had a corpse, went back to get it and the black window effect happened to her

i asked her to do a /loc
[Allegiance] Nunyabiz says, "Your location is Landblock: 5a4902a7, X: 249.2, Y: -1.1, Z: 0.0, H: 1.$

please either have someone ig help her or tell me what she can do at this point

I'm logged in on Deven-Kenyon

[kclobo2003]

was in the Bobo Quest Dugeon and all of a sudden I got the black window effect, it happened around 10:20 P.M EST time.

My fellow could see me talking but couldn't even see me on there screen this happened to another person in the fellow and all he had to do was log out......But the first time I treid logging out it said can't log off while in Mid Air? so I had to shut down the entire Client and then I logged back in and still had a Black Window? so I tried logging out..This Time I could just log out and loged back in but nothing............so I had to Lifestone Recall and couldn't finish the quest...............



Plz get these bugs and lag fixed soon Im getting sick of it!

[Sho Nilrem]

follow-up to previous post:

i have noticed that both times thaat i faced the black screen of death that i was trying to engage a tusker that i could not hit.

subsequent to that discovery i have immediately disengaged any such attack and have had no further problem in any of the 2 tusker dungeons i previously encountered it in

Redeemer,Liberator and Slave tusk dungeons


have no idea if this will help but......

[Aragono]

This morning, at about 7.45 am my time (London +1) I was hunting in Honeycombs in tusk room. Suddenly I got a black screen. I had still sound and could still type messages. When I jumped I got the message I could not jump while in space/air. I tried to log out but was not able to do that, I had to reboot.

I moved to my other computer in my office, logged in and got a black screen again. Sound was O.K. and I was still able to type, but no interaction possible with the tuskers.

Another strange thing is the fact that the green cross in the middle of the radar turns to a 'W' at the same time I get the black screen.

I have no problems when I log in my mules, but at the moment I cannot play with my main due to this problem. The fact that I still see the tuskers on my radar proves I am still alive. I hope it will stay that way.

House recall or Mansion recall is not working. I'll try if lifestone recall will do something...

Any thing I can do to get back to normal??

Ara

[Ibn]

Try using Urgent Assistance -- sometimes the in-game Admins can pull you out of the world.

[the last mage]

i have quite a few toons that are stuck in portal space at the mansion and at my houses i tried the render thingy had a admin try to help i can see the mansion or house but i am bubbles and soon after i get red linked then booted

[Aragono]

I had the same problem once. In my case, I had not all ports open that are used by AC on my computer. My router blocked them, so I was bubbles too and got booted after a few minutes...

Maybe you should check that...

Good luck!


Aragono

[the last mage]

not to sound stupid or anything but how do i check that i am not very good with compters

[Aragono]

Well, not to sound stupid, but I asked someone to do that for me....;-)


Sorry....



Aragono

P.S. I remember I found on the help pages of AC an article about the ports used. Do you have a router btw?

[the last mage]

thank you for the input anyway i hope i can play soon been gone for about 4 months

[the last mage]

is thier anyway i will be able to plsy to day i have reinstalled the new patch 3 times but the same thing toons still stuck in portal space i can see the mansion but i am all bubbles

[Illuminator]

Not sure if this is related, but its bizzare :)


While running in windowed mode with 2 clients, 1 running castaway as buff bot and my other car requesting banes the 3d windows froze and opened a new 3d window in the character inventory panel, just as i was dragging items to the trade panel.Picture here (http://www.scorpuk.plus.com/images/ACscrn0009.jpg) This window was active and I could move / select characters within this smaller window. :eek:


This was on Morningthaw, datestamp of image is 12/02/04 18:59GMT


After a couple of minutes I then got an out of video memory error.


My system:

AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz
512Mb RAM
Gainward GeForce4 Ti4800SE 128Mb DDR (Ultra/750-8X XP)

Drivers are up to date as far as I know.


This has happened again, but this time I terminated the clients and rebooted before the out of video memory error could happen.


Oh yeah and I've used Drakiers dual client and played in windowed mode for over a year with nothing like this ever happening before!!!!!

[Volt]

Tusker Abode
2-13-04
around 12:15 pm
Was running after tusker when screen went black....tried to jump and was told can't jump when in air....tried loggin out and said can't because in air.....alt tab and closed then logged back in still nothing.....casted out and everything is fine.

[princess_sarah]

i didnt note down the *exact* time of occurance, but here goes.

server: leafcull
dungeon: lost distillery (lytelthorpe)
time: roughly noon gmt

i took a few steps into the dungeon, and suddenly all was black.

i could not backtrack out of the black area, as i might be able to if my files had been corrupted.

i could not get into spellcasting mode

i could not do /lifestone to recall (i did not see a recall message)

i could not jump, as it said i was in mid air.

when i tried to use bandit sight to find out the location of the exit portal, the portal was way, way off in the distance

i could log on and off my character freely; my situation did not change when i logged on via a different computer, or after i had relogged. my other characters were fine.

the problem did not occur when i re-entered the dungeon.

when i did /die to escape, i searched for my body using bandit sight. my body was listed at the following coords: (1.#QNANS,1.#QNANW)
note that this wasnt the ingame listing, i didnt think to check that, but i mention it just in case it helps

[SwampFoxGB]

Server: Morningthaw
Character: Supertrouble GB
Time: 8:50 AM EST
Date: 2/14/04
Place: Tusker Pit
Coords: 1.3N/91.8E
Plugins: ElTank

Hello one and all..........I just had a wierd experience in the Tusker Pit..........no invisible characters or black outs but my toon kept repeating the same action over and over and over again. I couldn't get out of it and had to leave the world before I got killed by them pesky things.

My toon jumped down in to the pit, landed and then jumped back down in to the pit again and landed and just kept doing that over and over again. I tried running in to the tunnel/hall but it kept taking me back to the jump down. At first I was able to kill a couple of Silver Tuskers but then even that wouldn't work. I just kept jumping back down in to the pit, landing and jumping back down.

Has any one else experienced something like this?:confused:

[Illuminator]

I've had similar experiences as SwampFoxGB, but in sub (hub).


I would jump down and clip the lip of the wall before landing at the bottom, but would be dragged back up to jump again and again and again...


The way I get out fo this is to hold down the down arrow key (move backwards) and repeatedly tap the space bar to try jump away from the problem. So far have not had to terminate the client to get out of it.


I'm not sure, but to me it looks like the server confuses your landing coords as inside the wall and as this cannot be allowed you are dragged back to your last known good location (top of the jump) and sent down again. The detection is probably when you hit the lip of the wall and not when you land. Landing is just part of the client/server lag, probably. :rolleyes:


Hope this helps.

[SoulForge]

Server: Frostfell

Time: 3:00pm EST
Date: 2/15/04
Place: BDC
Plugins: None

tunnel went black, logged, came back 10 min later and i froze up and so did a friend. i unfroze without logging but friend was booted. he stood there for like 5 minutes hehehe.he has been booted several times all over dereth with decal and without. changed all his vid settings etc so far nothing has worked. he can play for 30min to an hour or so then bang!

[SoulForge]

friend SO FAR fixed his problem and is not getting booted anymore. well at least tonight and thats a good sign,

he turned off texture rend as per help files on ACDM

[SNAKEMANN]

Ever since Turbine took over LAGG LAGG LAGG everywhere In dongeons on the surface in the Market you name it now I know it;s not the computer cause I have 3 of them and they all do the same thing. LAGG LAGG LAGG. Heck I cant evern let one of my toons stay in the market without lagging out 10 to 20 times a day and thats when I'm home. I know change is good but this isn't.
I do think the XP pass up is a good change too much xp has been being passed up for a long time good to see it come to an end.
But really get rid of our LAG :(

[RedSeptember_WE]

Last night my charecter became invisible, It was around 7 AM pasific & happend in MP when I logged in, Althou my charecter was invisible the orb I was wielding was not, I relogged & that fixed the problem.

I thought nothing of it as after playing this game long enuf one becomes used to funny things happening now & then.