Crash bug

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 7:49 pm

Radeon 9600xt
DirextX 9.0a
AMD XP 2100+
Win XP Pro
Xmas edition MQ2

Running 2 sessions of EQ in EQW, after several (2-3) /camp, change character, reenter game, an EQW session will crash (not both), I suspect a memory leak in either EQ or MQ2 relating to loading/unloading characters. This has happened repeatedly (at least 4 times since I compiled the latest MQ2 this morning).

Not using much in the way of macros, and nothing consistantly, I suspect it's something general.

mekaniak · Post by **mekaniak** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:58 pm

does it also happen without MQ loaded????

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:18 am

Thought about that, but this is new behavior (as when MQ is working, it's always loaded), I'll try it out and see if it blows up without MQ.

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 11:38 am

without MQ loaded, swapped between all my toons on both accounts (at same time), no crash, so I'm assuming the culprit is MQ.

What I do:
1. Run MQ2
2. Launch EQW1 (which is EQWin 2.35a pointing at main EQ dir), and proceed until I hit the "play" button, at which point the cursor frees up.
3. Launch EQW2 (second copy of EQWin 2.35a, pointing at second EQ dir)
4. Enter game with both.
5. Do my fiddling (swapping things between accounts.
6. /camp one or both toons
7. Login another, sometimes with the cursor released.
8. Do the swapping about
9. Rinse and repeat
10. During this swapping about, I MAY run a macro (to open all my bank slots anyway), or I may not, I normally only use MQ for tradeskill combines.

Problem usually crops up when I have one toon in game, and I'm logging in another, the one entering game will have the "Report this crash to SOE so we can bust you for using MQ" window. When this happens I can close the crashed session and proceed normally with the other. Problem seems to be related to the number of times I switch characters and reenter game. I've also had both client crash at the same time (when I'm camping and reentering both accounts at the same time). Crash always occurs during the time between hitting "enter world" on character Select screen and actualy entering game. Sometimes the character actually pops into game after the crash (though Linkdead).

Hope that helps you find the problem.

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:22 pm

Tested again, EQW1 session crashed as I was entering game for 3rd time, EQW2 took 5 entries, my guess is something gets corrupted and a NULL pointer rears it's ugly head.

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 7:01 pm

This might help, this time after it crashed and I declined to send incriminating bug reports to SOE, I got a popup box.

eqgame.exe - Application Error

The instruction at "0x77f585c0 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written". Note that this may be the popup window closing and crashing again, rather than the initial cause of the crash.

Anyone else manage to reproduce this? Or does no one else enter/leave the game often when swapping stuff between mules and regular toons?

azwildfire · Post by **azwildfire** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:50 am

i have same problem. works all day if id ont run 2 chars. but when i load up 2 chars after about 10 min or so it will crash the first instance of EQW...

used to work

hehe

Crash bug

Crash bug

Tested this morning