Still investigating the problem... nothing miraculous thus far. Still some odd problems which shouldn't be happening. Even with almost clean files on our test server. After this zakum died there were large stretched npc letters that appeared for its dying animation. And outside of zakums altar a portal was also flashing with some NPC letters on a certain frame. Spoiler
Does anyone ever get d/c's to the login screen with no error (usually on 3rd body) at zakum? I was using a Night Lord when testing.
We tried Zakking yesterday. Even with Gm warps and GFX turned all the way down, we had the game crash, lag and dc.
Yeah, it was crazy... Almost everyone d/c'd during the arms and first body... Apart from myself, Kreupel and Paradox. So I can't confirm anything, I'm afraid, we never got to B3. lol.
This happened with just an edited String.wz and Item.wz on our test server... Spoiler Edit: Similar issue with Clean .wz files and clean XML's on test server leading to an eventual crash: Spoiler
Having had very few problems with Zak on the test server, I sought the permission of a couple of guilds to allow me to lurk on their Z-runs to get a better idea of the dc issue than a tiny party on the test server will allow. (I think it goes without saying that I'm not allowed to give people any special priviledges for letting me lurk - I don't have any gm buffs on my character and I won't warp anyone into Zak beyond a certain point, regardless of whether I'm hanging out on the run or not.) I'm using a desktop PC, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, dedicated gfx and play the game in fullscreen mode (windowed is too small for me to see character names etc - yay, eyesight!). I also know about using the graphics quality slider at the right times, and make use of this. Discoveries for me so far: using alt + tab to minimize the game causes it to blackscreen and I had to leave it for about 30 mins to fully crash of its own accord, as it wouldn't let me bring up task manager; attempting to take a screenshot using the good ol' Scroll Lock key does one of two things during Zakum. It either fails to work at all, or it blackscreen d/cs me, sometimes with a C++ runtime error, sometimes just a dc right out of the game, no error message; I don't get any flashing, black squares or other funky graphics, or at least I haven't yet; I don't seem to get d/c-ed just to the login screen; The one time I dc-ed for any reason other than doing something inadvisable like taking screenshots or minimizing the game, 3 of us (myself, GeoX and Illuminate) all dc-ed simultaneously. About 12 people who were on the same run didn't dc at that point. I suspect that 3 people dcing at once would be due to some kind of lag spike. Geox (on a Mac) and I both blackscreened, but unlike Illuminate, we didn't get flashes. Illuminate uses the same OS as me but was on a laptop with integrated graphics. The only thing I did at that point was to press my Magic Guard key, which should not and has never previously caused me to dc. (This was during body 2) I'd be interested to know if the D/C and funky graphics are a worse problem for those with integrated graphics cards than those with dedicated graphics cards or GPUs.
For the 1st time today I've dced on my NL. Getting a C++ error. Not sure if any changes have been made to zakum. Maybe I was just unlucky or the fact I added a point into shadow shifter, which I didn't have before. If it's shadowshifter it could be something to look into. The animation might break something.
I used to never dc and only have the screen flash problem. Today first run I instantly dced. 2nd run made it thru most of the arms, and noticed my party window was glitched and couldnt read it at all. When 1 arm was left I turned down my gfx setting and my entire screen turned black and then continued to flash between black screen and my desktop. Couldnt open task manager or anything had to force reboot computer.
I think it's about time we let you know that we are making good progress towards a fix for Windows clients. However, we do need to iron out some bugs from this fix before we can consider releasing it.
Any updates on this issue? I'm running windows 8, and have dc'd twice during 3rd body. Both times my gfx was set all the way down. First time, I was in windowed mode, and second I was in full screen. Also, the first time i dc'd was to the login screen (unable to connect to game), and the second time I completely dc'd from the game with no error messages or anything.
That's the problem, you are supposed to refresh your GFX, not keep it all the way at the bottom. I run perfectly on windows 8
The issue regarding this thread was fixed. You must be havin a different issue and not following the above posts instructions
Yeah I was able to get through a zrun earlier today. The problem was me not refreshing my gfx. Thanks guys.
