my only request make the zones stop crashing!

[opyrus]

eqemu has been around how long and they still havent pinned down excessive zone crashing. in a normal 24hours at least 20-50 zones crash seems like way to much to me maybe 1 a day or maybe a week. also would someone set the UAC and vista error reporting in precompiled copys XD not like its hard.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by opyrus

eqemu has been around how long and they still havent pinned down excessive zone crashing. in a normal 24hours at least 20-50 zones crash seems like way to much to me maybe 1 a day or maybe a week. also would someone set the UAC and vista error reporting in precompiled copys XD not like its hard.

The last time a zone crashed on me was months ago, and was because I made an improper entry in my database. Other than that, I would forget or miss database updates posted in the changelogs.
So in the time I've been here (2 years?), this has happened to me maybe 2-3 times, and always was my fault. I would think unless you have 100+ players on at the same time, and I doubt even PEQ server has this many zone crashes, the problem is with you, and not the emulator.

[trevius]

If you are having that many zone crashes per day, either your server can't handle the load (low stats), or there is something you have on your server that is causing the problem. One thing to check into is to see if you have any items with focus effects that are "unknown". Anytime an item with an unknown focus effect is worn and a player casts a spell, it will always crash the zone.

This would be the case if you allow summoned items or have items in your loot tables with effects past Titanium. To fix that, either remove the unknown effects from the items, remove the items from your loot tables, or maybe try updating your spell file to live so that at least the server knows what the effect is even though the client won't. Then, it should stop crashing due to that reason. It would be nice if there was an update to the code to ignore unknown effects so it doesn't crash on them.

[Andrew80k]

Originally Posted by Angelox

The last time a zone crashed on me was months ago, and was because I made an improper entry in my database. Other than that, I would forget or miss database updates posted in the changelogs.
So in the time I've been here (2 years?), this has happened to me maybe 2-3 times, and always was my fault. I would think unless you have 100+ players on at the same time, and I doubt even PEQ server has this many zone crashes, the problem is with you, and not the emulator.

I second this. My server is hardly ever down and the only time I've had any zone crashes were my fault for not having the proper database entries. My zones have been very stable, hell my whole server seems rock solid.

[KLS]

It's most likely a crash specific to something you're trying to do with your server. Low stats could always be a problem but it's more likely you'd notice *crippling lag* first. With some more info I'm sure people would be willing to help get it resolved.

[opyrus]

well im running the latest PEQ database 1110 heres some of my errors i have loged. ive allways had zone crashing issues precompiled selfcompiled allthow the ones i compiled seem to crash a bit less. server has 1.8ghz cpu 2gig ram 128meg vid id rule out not able to handle it i can boot 500 zones if i wanted they wont stay up thow cus they crash even with 25 up.

[06.18. - 06:25:29] A null Mob object was passed to Client::Attack() for evaluation!
[06.18. - 23:30:15] Ghosting client:
[06.19. - 03:04:11] No book to send, (LONSwitchClaim)
[06.19. - 17:11:42] Zoning Aleraun: Rules prevent this char from zoning into 'draniksscar'
[06.19. - 17:11:42] Zone 302 is not available because target wasn't found or character insufficent level
[06.19. - 17:11:42] Zoning Aleraun: Invalid unsolicited zone request to zone id '202'.
[06.20. - 00:20:32] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_BazaarSearch (#321 eq=0x0000),

size: 20
[06.20. - 00:20:32] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_Unknown (#0 eq=0x0000), size: 4
[06.20. - 00:29:49] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_BazaarSearch (#321 eq=0x0000),

size: 20
[06.20. - 00:29:49] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_Unknown (#0 eq=0x0000), size: 4
[06.20. - 08:07:49] No book to send, (MeleeSkillLearn)
[06.20. - 08:08:17] No book to send, (MeleeSkillLearn)
[06.20. - 11:45:23] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_BazaarSearch (#321 eq=0x0000),

size: 20
[06.20. - 11:45:23] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_Unknown (#0 eq=0x0000), size: 4
[06.20. - 12:21:02] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_BazaarSearch (#321 eq=0x0000),

size: 20
[06.20. - 12:21:02] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_Unknown (#0 eq=0x0000), size: 4
[06.16. - 17:25:13] No book to send, (LONSwitchClaim)
[06.16. - 17:58:42] GetAuth() returned false kicking client
[06.16. - 19:21:43] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_LFPCommand (#340 eq=0x0000),

size: 84
[06.16. - 19:50:08] No book to send, (LONSwitchClaim)
[06.18. - 09:20:42] Ghosting client:
[06.18. - 09:21:16] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_CrashDump (#276 eq=0x0000),

size: 32328
[06.18. - 03:52:53] A null Mob object was passed to NPC::Attack() for evaluation!
[06.18. - 04:10:40] Ghosting client:
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2531)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=65114, slot_id=2531
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2532)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=65114, slot_id=2532
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2533)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=5317, slot_id=2533
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2541)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=2117, slot_id=2541
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2542)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=1497, slot_id=2542
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2543)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=3055, slot_id=2543
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2544)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=1001, slot_id=2544
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2545)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=1002, slot_id=2545
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2546)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=1004, slot_id=2546
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2547)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=30122, slot_id=2547
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (254
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=25613, slot_id=2548
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2549)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=3109, slot_id=2549
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Inventory::_PutItem: Invalid slot_id specified (2550)
[06.18. - 05:26:45] Warning: Invalid slot_id for item in shared bank inventory: charid=1128, item_id=3109, slot_id=2550
[06.21. - 16:29:07] Possible Forage: 14913 with a 100 chance
06.18. - 17:52:29] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_BazaarSearch (#321 eq=0x0000),

size: 20
[06.18. - 17:52:29] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_Unknown (#0 eq=0x0000), size: 4
[06.18. - 18:13:24] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_BazaarSearch (#321 eq=0x0000),

size: 20
[06.18. - 18:13:24] HandlePacket() Opcode error: Unexpected packet during CLIENT_CONNECTING: opcode: OP_Unknown (#0 eq=0x0000), size: 4
[06.20. - 14:00:22] Zoning Drakkul: Rules prevent this char from zoning into 'draniksscar'
[06.20. - 14:00:22] Zone 302 is not available because target wasn't found or character insufficent level
[06.20. - 14:00:23] Zoning Drakkul: Invalid unsolicited zone request to zone id '202'.
[06.18. - 04:32:47] Zoning Monmo: Rules prevent this char from zoning into 'tutorial'
[06.18. - 04:32:47] Zone 183 is not available because target wasn't found or character insufficent level
[06.18. - 04:32:47] Zoning Monmo: Invalid unsolicited zone request to zone id '102'.
[06.18. - 17:45:53] No book to send, (CHRMNoBuffs)
[06.19. - 00:35:41] Ghosting client:
[06.20. - 00:42:44] A null Mob object was passed to Client::Attack() for evaluation!
[06.20. - 00:58:22] No book to send, (MeleeSkillLearn)
[06.20. - 07:09:58] A null Mob object was passed to Client::Attack() for evaluation!
[06.20. - 07:47:52] No book to send, (LONSwitchClaim)
[06.20. - 07:57:22] Zoning Aleraun: Rules prevent this char from zoning into 'draniksscar'
[06.20. - 07:57:22] Zone 302 is not available because target wasn't found or character insufficent level
[06.20. - 07:57:22] Zoning Aleraun: Invalid unsolicited zone request to zone id '202'.
[06.20. - 08:07:42] A null Mob object was passed to Client::Attack() for evaluation!

[trevius]

None of those errors look to be zone crash related. Maybe you are looking at the wrong log file. I don't run my server on windows anymore, so I don't know which one you want for sure.

Is it 1 particular zone that is crashing, or all of them? If it is just a couple of zones, it could be something set wrong with a quest or some other database issue you are having. Otherwise, you should make certain that your players don't have items that have unknown focus effects. That will crash zones every time. You could download the spells file from live (there are links directly to that file somewhere in these forums) and use that for your server spell file in your eqemu directory. Then, if the crashes stop, you will know that it is related to this focus effect issue since those are defined in the spells file.

Other than that, you might want to mention anything you have done that might be considered out of the ordinary when creating your server.