Weird Question...

marioinfinity · 02-01-10, 05:21 AM

So, I have a weird question; and theirs no "weird question" forum so this is as good as any i guess.

So I have this fun issue. First let me tell you the setup:

Icecrown Citadel 25 - Resto Druid - Gunship Battle Encounter

Addons Enabled: nui+ & DBM (i turn everything else off during raids for fps maximization)

What happens? After about 3-4 "phases" (canons get frozen, kills mage, canons get unfrozen; rinse & repeat) I get "disconnected" and then I log into the game at the Westfall Graveyard.

Yea. Fun huh? Well this is the 5th week I've put a GM ticket in, and their last suggestion is to try the encounter without nui+ enabled. (They kinda eliminated dbm with the fact that everyone uses one of the few boss addons and they havn't gotten 1 million tickets about this).

Anyway, weird question; Why would nui+ be the cause of a disconnect during the encounter? I have NO latency/fps issues anywhere else in ICC10 or 25; yet during that one encounter i get a d/c. I guess the last troubleshoot for the GM is to try the encounter with nui+ disabled and move on.. but its weird in my opinion. Anyone else hearin about anything weird like this on their server? Just curious..

PS>[The teleport to the graveyard has nothing to do with nui ! Just after weeks of troubleshooting tips the GM's last advice is that its something in my Addons causing this; and since nui is the only other mod i run in raids they assume its that..]

spiel2001 · 02-01-10, 05:51 AM

Well... obviously the teleport would have nothing to do with nUI since it has nothing to do with teleport at all. It could be one of two things... a dead loop in the code somewhere that causes the UI to stop responding to the server or a bug in Blizz somewhere. And, yes, it is SOP for the GM's to blame the addons for problems.

The thing that bothers me is that I can't see how or why a dead loop in the UI would result in a port to Westfall. I remember an instance about three years ago that would randomly port your body to the middle of the great sea. This sounds similar to me.

That all said, nUI does have a performance problem in the auras section so the possibility of a dead loop is not zero. I've been a software engineer for over 30 years now, I know better than to say it isn't the software without a caveat.

marioinfinity · 02-04-10, 07:21 AM

lol, I never have problems running with NUI in ICC. I actually just ran 25man again with ALL my addons off and it still happened ^_^

Personally, I rarely see too much of a performance problem with nui, guess i've gotten used to it lol

Seer · 02-04-10, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by spiel2001

The thing that bothers me is that I can't see how or why a dead loop in the UI would result in a port to Westfall. I remember an instance about three years ago that would randomly port your body to the middle of the great sea. This sounds similar to me.

I guess that he DC's, the server is not aware, and the char just gets killed while he is trying to log back in, meanwhile the server realises the client was disconnected and "bugs" out.

IIRC the westfall graveyard is the "first" graveyard in the game so when the server bugs, it's unable to get the right graveyard and just puts the char up in the first one on the list.

Just guessing tho.

Xrystal · 02-04-10, 10:21 AM

One of my old guild members had that happen to him and I was wondering that it could be due to some glitch in what zone he is in and some how thinks he is nearest to that graveyard due to x,y but not location zone.

Petrah · 02-04-10, 02:05 PM

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...18707486&sid=1

Not sure why that's in tech support... should be posted in Bug Reports because it appears to be a game issue and not a client issue. At any rate, just wanted you to know that others have reported the same issue.

marioinfinity · 02-04-10, 10:25 PM

Yea I have the 5th GM Ticket I've submitted in at the moment. Its just annoying that i get kicked and moved to westfall cuz im useless during the encounter and I feel bad for the raid; especially as one of the main healers for the 25man progression I'm apart of.

Oh well.. I made 5k from getting dc'd this last time; i made a bet that it'd happen yet again and won =) lol

spiel2001 · 02-05-10, 05:21 AM

~lol~

People will bet on anything

~grin~

If it matters any, doing a little homework on this since I'm seeing more cases of it, I'm reading reports of people having sudden WoW crashes on Windows 7 machines even with the default Blizz UI. It may well be that nUI is making the problem worse because it uses more memory, or more CPU or calls the Blizz API more often or any of a host of reasons, but it appears the core issue is a Blizz bug.