Crashed by the numbers!

[Mestophalies]

Ok Dev's here goes;

I had a group and went to visit the Amazons. At first they were friendly. Sure we hacked a few to pieces, but then they got ugly.

Inside Amazon Valley (The screen by that name), you have numerous Slinger's. You also have a Cleric Amazon (I forget the name) and Ritualists and of course fighters and such.

Well when you get oh say 12+ Slingers on screen at once and they all starts to cast. Players start to crash. I know because all of my party crashed at one point or another and we all lost xp and Gold. Not to mention the long walk back. I have no clue why it happened. I do know that even with my graphics card at its lowest setting it crashed. This mainly occures when your turning your camera view and there are many casters on screen at once. I do know that the spawn jumped unusually high. At one point I counted 21 Amazons on me as I laid in the grass. There were plenty more as my party memebers tried to rescue me from my crash.

Now, I was reserected and killed a couple of them and tried to resurect a friend who died saving me. When I returned to the screen there were even more Amazons.

So; 1, There is a possible problem on that screen.
2, You have an exploitable area for fast leveling. Just have a player lay dead and move on and off screen through the transition point.

I am not sure if this is the case but, they sure multiplied for us.

[Metis]

Thats an unusual amount of slingers but send us more specifics, anyone using the aura rage, any aoe spells cast by players, at what point was it the worst and what were the npc doing then, the more details the easier it is to find a problem if there is one.

If anyone has any other related specific information post away but general "I crashed there" doesnt help us find a problem if there is one.

[kingfatzo]

eheehe, aye well i must say, that in all my time here, about 90 % of all game crashes i have experienced have occured in Zons....maybe its just a combination of things that cause the bioware engine to have a hemorage

and wasnt there an issue with the zons area a few weeks back >? i thoguth i remember hearing somthing mentioned , maybe it was just in game.. anyways, i must say that the TAB key can be your worst enemy.... but on the other hand, the graphics fix that i downloaded on the nwnignvault (i cannot recall the filename off hand) seems to have prevented all of my game-crashes...i cant recall the last time i crashed.

but general "I crashed there" doesnt help us find a problem if there is one.

/edit: oops

[Amoenotep]

was any of your party running around like chickens? remember the Zon plains are stepped so if you run and they see you, more will come..and if those see you the ones behind them will come to check out the hooha..and if they see you the rest will come. so, if you look at it from that point basically the whole screen will come running for you very fast unless your careful.

[n00bie]

of all the maps ive visited. Zon area is the most laggish of all. even me soloing is still lag. super lag = bound to get DCed heheh

[Kirg]

The lag is mostly due to their taunting/shouting. Disable the sound in the configuration and it will run much better.

[kingfatzo]

The lag is mostly due to their taunting/shouting. Disable the sound in the configuration and it will run much better.

ugh ! i like that idea its like having Elvin SPAM comming into your chat window when ur having a convo....frustrating and redundant...nothign worse when 10 of em yell at once.

[n00bie]

@kirg

never thought sound can do that. i thought it all because of the gfx of animations. thnx for that advice.

[Lorkar1]

the graphics fix that i downloaded on the nwnignvault (i cannot recall the filename off hand) seems to have prevented all of my game-crashes.

I have looked for that file and have had no luck. So if you could remember that might save alot of us some huge headaches.

[kingfatzo]

i looked for the file.....cant find the zip :/ and its lost among the archives in the nwnDir...... sorry...i am pretty sure im not the only one who has used this...so hopefully someone can help ya w. the name

[Mestophalies]

OK as for specific information;

When we first went through the screen, we saw maybe eight Zons total. We ran down the hill and my partner got caught. I went back for him and killed 2 Zons. Then I rran for the exit infront of my partner and all of a sudden there were 8 Zons running towards my in an area that has usually 4. So it was double. Then I turned and the 4 that were behind me were now 8. 8 to 10 of those were Slingers and they all decided to taunt at the same time. My screen froze and I was gone.

I returned and there were 13 Zons on me then 7 more walked into screen. So I had 20 Zons on me that I could see.

Note this screen has a total of 14 to 16 Zons normally. When I was Resurected. I ran and lost count of the number of Zons. I hit 30 and stopped counting. Just so you know, most of the Zons at this time were Slingers.

[P. Fricebottle]

Thats happened to me too a lot at Zons, once there were 15 lanceresses and several other zons. It was scary.

[Amoenotep]

should have taken a screenie

[P. Fricebottle]

should have taken a screenie

Way ahead of ya.



I couldn't capture them all with a screenie, I'd say I got about half of the mob in it though.

[JesterOI]

Did you win?

I've noticed something like this happen once with the ogres in dark forest.
About 9 of them were spawned all in same spot. (No there weren't any other players or some animal that they attacked)