Death Peace Bug?

[hughman]

Ever since the July patch I have been noticing that when I get interrupted (through stuns, movement, ducking or whatever) in my cast of AA Death Peace that my graphics freeze for a split second. While a useful thing (I never need to look at text to see if FD was cast) it is annoying and problematic. If something happens that I need to know about during that moment (mob goes after wrong target, etc) then I won't see it for that much longer leaving less time to react.

Anyone else experience this?

Thanks!

Loketh 66 on Prexus.

[Felicite]

I absolutely experience the same thing. No explaination, but when I read your description it was spot on.

[Dhau]

...no wonder i'm not able to channel DP through anything these days (even with persistant casting 3/ channeling focus 3/ stun resist 8

[Aryse Andenter]

Might want to make sure Sissl knows about this one. And /bug it.

[Nirruden]

Typically it seems like I get a burst of video lag right before the interrupt. Just a brief stutter (during which I can take no action) and then a notification afterwards that the ability failed and the timer was reset. Needless to say, this causes potential problems getting off the NEXT FD, because all through the stutter, I'm still an eligible target according to the server.

Seems relatively new, but I'd thought it was just my semi-outdated hardware getting flaky. I don't recall having this problem with DP before, though I may be more playing in a more aggressive fashion and being exposed to the problem more than before.

[Sissl]

Passed this on to Dev, thanks for the heads up!

[Xislaben]

I get the exact same problem, I FD while being hit, and it seems I lag to all hell and back as the fd effect (I only see my own spells) begins. The shitty thing is if fd fails for whatever reason I may well be dead before I know it, so I spam my fd aa button now and hope it worked the first time, and then wait the 15 or so seconds (ok more like 3) to find out if I lived... I survived a round of melee with Shadowhunter :) The 2nd round wasn't so lucky :(

I have also noticed that when I zoom out into 3rd person view I can sometimes see the 'transparent' parts of things like trees and what not, and I can also sometimes see squares floating around in my own spell effects where they shouldn't be viewable. Dx9 upgrades, yay.

I got an Ati x800 XT, a gig of 3200 ram, a p4 3.0ghz, and a 72 gig 10k rpm scsi hd 160wide which should be able to handle much more than anything EQ can throw at it.

Here's something I see that I shouldn't be able to re transparencies:
http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/6069/transparent3zy.jpg

[Xislaben]

07/18/2005 This big still happens. Happened to me in a DoN mission, The Creator.

I find it's worse when I roll back on my mouse wheel and look at the events from above and behind my character, and use the FD aa as a mob's wailing on me. It seems that just as the FD spell effect starts to take place the screen updating slows to a crawl to the point of totally stopping and updating every 1 frame every second or so for a few seconds.

In that case I simply spam the fd aa button to try and make sure I got it off before being eaten.

[Niic]

I've had this same problem, and I've also noticed this happens with other AAs with a cast time when they are interupted(like army of the dead). Example: When trying to cast AotD while kiting and you see you aren't going to have enough time to cast it before the mob catches you, you start running and when the cast time reaches zero, and is interupted because you moved, that's when I get a half a second video freeze thing.

Anyway, it's annoying but if you know it's going to happen it usually isn't deadly. Still hope it's fixed soon.

[flishtaco]

I am coping this horrible on Death Peace but am also catching it on Army and Swarm. Something to do with the hotkeys I think but its nasty has got me killed a couple times on Death Peace. Thought it was my graphic card lol glad I read I am not alone.

[FCseven]

Happens to me ALOT,mob starts beating on me I cast fd,video locks up,FD is inturuppted.Man I thought it was just me. :blink:

[Schaeffer]

Yeah it's very annoying, especially when your try and cast WTD while kiting and then you realize you're not going to have enough time, so you duck out and / or run and lose a second or two on the freeze.

Not so much of a problem on the FD portion, when I need to FD I spam it until I stop seeing the red "a mountain pooka hits YOU for 800" text fly by my screen.

P.S.

Any update from the devs on this issue Sissl

[Xislaben]

07/31/05 this bug still happens.

It happens both while in 3rd person view and when zoomed all the way in (looking out of my char's eyes) even with all spell effects (including mine) turned off.

Sucks.

[Phearumx]

do any of you use AVG antivirus? if so, you just have to turn off document scanning I think in the control center. can't look right now (in a raid)

[Xislaben]

I'm using Norton Corporate. I haven't noticed the DP bug in a while, so maybe it's been fixed.