Visions of Grandeur

Howdy yall,

I have been enjoying the server for a month or two now and appreciate the work that has been put into it. I box about 4 characters and a few of my family members that play on the server box around the same as well without hindrance to game play. I run a 5k machine with great internet so usually the game has no issues. However, I have been running into horrible gameplay while in Howling Stones. I have restarted and shutdown both the game and my computer in case it was some infinite loop or bug on my end as I usually just leave my computer on with my characters logged in for awhile, but this did not alleviate my issues. The following are the issues I have experienced while playing in Howling Stones:

1. Characters in the same party not being the same instanced of the zone upon zoning in or camping in.
2. Load times of other characters slowing to a crawl where it slows the other characters already in play.
3. Only one character, sometimes, refreshes fights, buffs, animations and etc. The rest are in their own world, however their movement and actions are refreshed to the one.
4. With the above, the others can only move around and upon clicking a button (hot-button, action, discipline, spell, and etc) they become stuck to that action
5. However, sometimes I have caught the same characters in a fight causing them to mem spells while fighting while doing other actions that I may have clicked.
6. Oddly enough, the doors seem to be the worst in this zone. Upon clicking, it seems to chug the game, not my computer, with refreshing.

I do not use any 3rd party program while playing. Good ol' alt+tab is what I have used for these past two months while "dungeoning" and slaying dragons. I hope this can be resolved so I can farm in HS with the peace of mind and gameplay that the rest of zones seem to have.

To add:

7. Found an interesting "bug." Just experienced monsters aggroing and surrounding the hated character. The character is not refreshing no combat animation occurs, but still takes damage, it is just not shown and even though your character eventually dies, it won't load screen. The character also cannot cast or attack as usual during the combat.

EDIT: 2:55AM 08/01/2017

HS seems to be running smoother after i recamped, then one by one origin to PoK and recamped after that.

Sorry I don't have a better answer, but some people experience weird issues like this with HS (and occasionally a couple of other zones). I've never been able to track down the problem. I've never been able to replicate it on my end even when being in the zone at the same time as someone experiencing the problem. I can only assume that there's something different about HS that just doesn't play nicely with some people's setups.

I hesitate to even offer suggestions since I've never been able to fix anyone with this problem, but you could try running in safe-mode in case the conflict has anything to do with software or on a different computer in case it's hardware. There was at least one time where a specific character had a similar problem, but no other characters on the account. O.o

Thank you for the response. HS seems to be working as long as i refresh with a full clear, meaning camping in PoK, logging back in and then zoning back in. This seems to be a good work around for myself atm as it lasts for quite a few hours.

Thanks for the info! I'll pass it along to the next poor soul who has somehow offended the eqemu gods hehe.