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 Lakshmi.Byrth
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2017-04-05 09:04:12
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Multiboxers have a problem where (occasionally) simultaneously zoning multiple characters can cause a freeze that lasts until they forcequit one of their characters. Some people experience this much more often than others and it's not clear why.

I just pushed Sandbox 1.0.1.9, which hopefully will fix that problem. It should stagger your characters (by 100ms) so that only one can initiate zoning at a time.

It's difficult to tell whether this problem is solved because it happens so rarely in the first place and I only dualbox. Please let me know if you still experience the multi-box zoning freeze.
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By ocean 2017-04-05 14:39:19
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Thank you for your hard work
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By Asura.Ladyofhonor 2017-04-05 14:43:10
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Oh good, glad I wasn't alone in experiencing this issue, hope it's fixed, thanks Byrth!
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By Sylph.Ice 2017-04-05 15:20:11
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I notice this happens usually only when multiple characters are zoning at the same time (entering Sinister Reign, Ambuscade, Teleport spells, Omen, etc). I normally 4-box and it doesn't happen too often. Hopefully even less now though.
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By Bahamut.Baozzer 2017-04-05 15:31:36
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Does logging in count as zoning? Cause more than half the time i log on my box, 1 of the character would immediately crash. I never experienced anything from just zoning characters though
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2017-04-05 15:44:51
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Bahamut.Baozzer said: »
Does logging in count as zoning? Cause more than half the time i log on my box, 1 of the character would immediately crash. I never experienced anything from just zoning characters though

This is not the freeze I'm talking about and I don't know what could cause it.


Please let me know if you still experience the crash, everyone!
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By Lakshmi.Konvict 2017-04-05 16:00:34
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Thank you very much Byrth. You hard work is extremely appreciated. I have this issue a lot (ambu, omen, etc), hope it does the trick!
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By Valefor.Philemon 2017-04-06 03:32:54
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Sandbox has always erased my chatlog when I expanded it. This is with ~3-4 concurrent instances. Is that normal?
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By Bismarck.Cloudstrafie 2017-04-06 12:07:50
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I run mutiple characters, normally 6 in average 2 and at max 12. I never had this issue before, however other in my shell run 2 characters on average. Mutiple people have reported this before. The only issue I've seen is the different OS. I'm in windows 10 a few others who have had the crash issues are on windows 7 and windows 8. Not sure if that helps at all but that's just what I've noticed
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By Skies 2017-04-07 05:22:43
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Thanks for all the hard work. I deal with with that everyday, becomes much worst when interacting with hidden menus like buying KI but also warping or tele.

I ended up having to use a lua to stagger all zoning or interaction commands by 500ms. Never really tried 100ms, I stopped once I got something to work.
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By wick 2017-04-07 08:21:52
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Crashed entering Ambuscade just now.
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By Fenrir.Caiir 2017-04-07 10:29:09
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Valefor.Philemon said: »
Sandbox has always erased my chatlog when I expanded it. This is with ~3-4 concurrent instances. Is that normal?

This is not normal, this is one of the side effects of multi-boxing that Sandbox is supposed fixing, I believe.

100ms stagger is definitely not enough, not sure whether Byrth pushed the 200ms version yet.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2017-04-07 10:50:41
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Does the 200ms version work?

Edit: Pushed it.
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By Skies 2017-04-07 17:04:25
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Just tested it, works like a charm. thanks bro
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By kazekostryge 2017-04-07 17:36:47
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I blackscreened with 200 ms. Needs higher.
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By Skies 2017-04-07 18:06:58
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Yea, actually after further use, its a hit and miss. So far getting black screened about 30% of the time.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2017-04-07 18:34:45
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I bumped it up to 300ms. Next jump is going to be 500
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By Sylph.Ice 2017-04-07 18:35:07
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Not sure if it was intentional or not, but now when zoning using a warp (warp ring, warp scroll, warp spell, cumulus mask, etc), the screen freezes for a solid 5-7 seconds before getting to the "downloading data" screen. Without sandbox loaded, it warps normally.

EDIT: It also happens even when only zoning with 1 character at a time.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2017-04-07 20:04:58
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It's probably a byproduct of reloading the plugin to a new version while logged in.
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By Draylo 2017-04-07 20:06:05
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Ooh this always happens to me
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By wick 2017-04-07 20:32:53
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This has been working so far! Thankyou!!

It just does a small "Not responding" then it loads.
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By Jetackuu 2017-04-09 01:31:17
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I thought the hangup was due to slow read speeds and in use files getting hung on the client side? Or was that a different issue entirely?
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By Fenrir.Caiir 2017-04-09 01:58:52
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There was some experimentation done and even with the game clients reading from completely different folders/files, the deadlock still happened.
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By Shiva.Malthar 2017-04-09 03:15:41
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Byrth, two of my mules just froze while zoning.
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By Jetackuu 2017-04-09 17:13:47
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Interesting, I just got crazy and migrated my instances to individual VMs years ago when I started having issues. I don't believe I had that issue, or if I did it was rather rare. I do currently have them set up to use the same drive though, and it's been a WD Green drive for some time, so it's unlikely but have you tried setting them to read from different drives entirely?