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Combat Log Fix  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: r20100217
by: Shadowed [More]

Fixes the combat log break bugs that have existed since 2.4. Credit goes to Imbad on ArenaJunkies for finding this. It works by clearing your combat log essentially, but it does it a little bit more automatically:

Slash commands: /logfix

On zone type change (pvp -> none, raid -> none, etc) it will clear the combat log
If no combat log events are found for 2 seconds after you cast a spell, it'll clear the log. It will also report how many combat log messages you had when it broke, if you can report these numbers in comments that would be great, might help narrow the bug down.

The above are enabled by default, you can disable them with /logfix.

Author: Shadowed <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Feb 17 16:34:43 2010 -0800
- Changed logic, now based off of when the spell with a cost (mana/health/rage/etc) is cast and checks if any combat log messages fired within the last 1 second
- Fixed events not being unregistered
- Reduced timeout to 2 seconds
- Initial commit (/logfix), auto fixes the combat log by clearing it
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Unread 02-22-10, 11:43 AM  
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Log Fixer: 1035 filtered/15187 events found. Cleared combat log, as it broke. Please report this!
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Unread 02-23-10, 01:41 AM  
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Originally posted by Shadowed
Hrm, it might be due to Rogues and Death Knights not triggering the cast events properly. One thing you could try is manually running /script CombatLogClearEntries() and seeing if that does it.

It's a weird fix, if you want to trust the ArenaJunkies poll, it fixes it for about 80% of the people, but not the other 20%.
Thanks, i'll be sure to try it. I'll keep running the addon though and see if it works for any of my other characters to see if maybe it's simply a problem on my end.

I played a warrior for 10 games but since combat log didn't break, I have no idea if it was doing anything.
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Log Fixer: 1106 filtered/20269 events found. Cleared combat log, as it broke. Please report this!
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Unread 02-26-10, 07:19 AM  
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Is there any more background information on this bug? I didn't know there was a bug with the combatlog, but I tried running this little addon and I've had a few different spams from it, probably the most amusing one after porting to Moonglade last night & getting 0/0 results fixed.

The reason I'm curious about the bug though is that I'm going greyhaired from trying to figure out a random disconnect problem I'm having with the game for the last *10 months* which most frequently (like 99%) happen in combat or just before combat, seemingly combatlog related...
I have tried just about everything to resolve this, including disabling all addons, nuking most settings, fresh re-install of the game on different hd, 2 network cards from different makers, different router ports, different cable (should be noted a friend of mine often plays at my place & he never has any issues), turning off floating combattext, making a combatlog filter with everything turned off, even trying some other addon which was supposed to turn off the combatlog (didn't work), upgrading & downgrading most system drivers... but still no resolution.
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Unread 02-26-10, 12:03 PM  
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The detection for deciding if the combat log broke or not isn't 100%, but it should be accurate in most combat situations (which is what matters).

It's not (likely) due to this bug thought. If you have disconnect issues all the time, it sounds ISP related. If you only get it during 10/25 man raids, then it's probably ISP related still. Knew someone who would get disconnected pretty frequently doing raids until he harassed his ISP to get things upgraded.
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Unread 02-26-10, 11:39 PM  
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Originally posted by Shadowed
It's not (likely) due to this bug thought. If you have disconnect issues all the time, it sounds ISP related. If you only get it during 10/25 man raids, then it's probably ISP related still. Knew someone who would get disconnected pretty frequently doing raids until he harassed his ISP to get things upgraded.
The weird thing is that it can happen.. anywhere. solo, 5man, 10man, 25man, idling in dalaran, idling in silvermoon city (alone, nobody else in the zone) or orgrimmar, flying around mining, flying between flightpaths, soloing an instance... and the times it happens to me while my friend is playing at my place, it never happens to him (in fact, he has never had this issue at all while playing at my place), and these specific disconnects are always *instant*.. never lag related. One moment I'm tanking a boss, a sec later I'm staring at the login screen /sighing. For the record, I'm on a 12/1.2mbit connection.. and never had issues with other online games or activities.
But since 3.3 patch, it's gotten a lot worse, on those days where I'm having issues (some days I'm fine, no problems, some days are... horrible).
One evening when I had been going through 10+ disconnects, I ended up nuking the savedvariables/blizzard_combatlog.lua setting, and suddenly stopped having any disconnects... for 4 days. But then it started again.
Of course, that could just be a freak coincidence ;p

I'm just mostly irritated that game doesn't spit out any form of debug log or anything that can provide us with any sort of hint about what the problems are, or where they occur (is it actual network issue, or is something blowing up in the game).
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Unread 02-28-10, 08:01 AM  
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Log Fixer: 1736 filtered/6075 events found. Cleared combat log, as it broke.
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Unread 02-28-10, 11:33 AM  
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Both occured in (the same) wintergrasp when a bunch of vehicles and players came together and it got very lagy:

18:07:20 Log Fixer: 89 filtered/14959 events found. Cleared combat log, as it broke. Please report this!
18:20:27 Log Fixer: 431 filtered/32256 events found. Cleared combat log, as it broke. Please report this!

After nuking on a target dummy in UC for about 5min (without anyone else around; as elemental shaman):

Log Fixer: 136 filtered/8644 events found. Cleared combat log, as it broke. Please report this!
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Log Fixer: 0 filtered/2715 events found.

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Yeah I am totally baffled. I can't get it to work on my warrior either. Does it just not register melee classes?

(or if it does, it doesn't give me the message that says how much it cleared)
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Unread 03-06-10, 01:53 PM  
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I presume the combat log has broken and you've not noticed any messages? I just checked and most Warrior abilities (eg, Heroic Strike) trigger the necessary events, so no reason it wouldn't work.

Check /logfix status to make sure auto clearing and reporting are enabled.
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Unread 03-07-10, 09:13 AM  
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Originally posted by Shadowed
I presume the combat log has broken and you've not noticed any messages? I just checked and most Warrior abilities (eg, Heroic Strike) trigger the necessary events, so no reason it wouldn't work.

Check /logfix status to make sure auto clearing and reporting are enabled.
I just had the message trigger for the first time on my hunter alt though I did not notice the combat log was broken. This was using whatever the default settings are on initial install.

For the warrior (and as mentioned earlier, the DK and the rogue), I tried whatever the default is and then tried turning on the "Wait on clear" since that was the only disabled one by default but i've yet to see anything trigger on those 3 characters though I have noticed the combat log breaking.
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Keep in mind the auto fixing will trigger within 1 second of a cast by you, so if you're using a lot of abilities you can have it clear the log before you notice it's broken.

There's not that much I can do at a certain point. I don't play a melee class, if you notice it breaks you can try /script CombatLogClearEntries() to see if it fixes it. If it does I can try and look into it more.
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Originally posted by coani
One evening when I had been going through 10+ disconnects...

I'm just mostly irritated that game doesn't spit out any form of debug log or anything that can provide us with any sort of hint about what the problems are, or where they occur (is it actual network issue, or is something blowing up in the game).
I get these disconnects too and it's not our connection. There are quite a few threads about this in the tech support forums. One "fix" was to set your multicore processor to use certain cores. Some people swear it works, but unfortunately I didn't notice any difference. But some blues have decided to recommend that fix since it works for some:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....sid=1&pageNo=1
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...d=1&pageNo=1#6
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Log Fixer: 14 filtered/1649 events found.

Mass dispel spamming waiting for arena to pop in org.


also, tyvm for this addon <3
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