Multiboxers have a problem where (occasionally) simultaneously zoning multiple characters can cause a freeze that lasts until they forcequit one of their characters. Some people experience this much more often than others and it's not clear why.
I just pushed Sandbox 1.0.1.9, which hopefully will fix that problem. It should stagger your characters (by 100ms) so that only one can initiate zoning at a time.
It's difficult to tell whether this problem is solved because it happens so rarely in the first place and I only dualbox. Please let me know if you still experience the multi-box zoning freeze.
Sandbox 1.0.1.9 Feedback
Sandbox 1.0.1.9 Feedback
Thank you for your hard work
Oh good, glad I wasn't alone in experiencing this issue, hope it's fixed, thanks Byrth!
I notice this happens usually only when multiple characters are zoning at the same time (entering Sinister Reign, Ambuscade, Teleport spells, Omen, etc). I normally 4-box and it doesn't happen too often. Hopefully even less now though.
Does logging in count as zoning? Cause more than half the time i log on my box, 1 of the character would immediately crash. I never experienced anything from just zoning characters though
Bahamut.Baozzer said: »
Does logging in count as zoning? Cause more than half the time i log on my box, 1 of the character would immediately crash. I never experienced anything from just zoning characters though
This is not the freeze I'm talking about and I don't know what could cause it.
Please let me know if you still experience the crash, everyone!
Thank you very much Byrth. You hard work is extremely appreciated. I have this issue a lot (ambu, omen, etc), hope it does the trick!
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Sandbox has always erased my chatlog when I expanded it. This is with ~3-4 concurrent instances. Is that normal?
I run mutiple characters, normally 6 in average 2 and at max 12. I never had this issue before, however other in my shell run 2 characters on average. Mutiple people have reported this before. The only issue I've seen is the different OS. I'm in windows 10 a few others who have had the crash issues are on windows 7 and windows 8. Not sure if that helps at all but that's just what I've noticed
Thanks for all the hard work. I deal with with that everyday, becomes much worst when interacting with hidden menus like buying KI but also warping or tele.
I ended up having to use a lua to stagger all zoning or interaction commands by 500ms. Never really tried 100ms, I stopped once I got something to work.
I ended up having to use a lua to stagger all zoning or interaction commands by 500ms. Never really tried 100ms, I stopped once I got something to work.
Crashed entering Ambuscade just now.
Valefor.Philemon said: »
Sandbox has always erased my chatlog when I expanded it. This is with ~3-4 concurrent instances. Is that normal?
This is not normal, this is one of the side effects of multi-boxing that Sandbox is supposed fixing, I believe.
100ms stagger is definitely not enough, not sure whether Byrth pushed the 200ms version yet.
Does the 200ms version work?
Edit: Pushed it.
Edit: Pushed it.
Just tested it, works like a charm. thanks bro
I blackscreened with 200 ms. Needs higher.
Yea, actually after further use, its a hit and miss. So far getting black screened about 30% of the time.
I bumped it up to 300ms. Next jump is going to be 500
Not sure if it was intentional or not, but now when zoning using a warp (warp ring, warp scroll, warp spell, cumulus mask, etc), the screen freezes for a solid 5-7 seconds before getting to the "downloading data" screen. Without sandbox loaded, it warps normally.
EDIT: It also happens even when only zoning with 1 character at a time.
EDIT: It also happens even when only zoning with 1 character at a time.
It's probably a byproduct of reloading the plugin to a new version while logged in.
Ooh this always happens to me
This has been working so far! Thankyou!!
It just does a small "Not responding" then it loads.
It just does a small "Not responding" then it loads.
I thought the hangup was due to slow read speeds and in use files getting hung on the client side? Or was that a different issue entirely?
There was some experimentation done and even with the game clients reading from completely different folders/files, the deadlock still happened.
Byrth, two of my mules just froze while zoning.
Interesting, I just got crazy and migrated my instances to individual VMs years ago when I started having issues. I don't believe I had that issue, or if I did it was rather rare. I do currently have them set up to use the same drive though, and it's been a WD Green drive for some time, so it's unlikely but have you tried setting them to read from different drives entirely?
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