Npcs freezed, spells buggeds [BUG]

[troglodite]

Hello!! How are you Eclipseans?

Well, I wanna know if somebody here had the same problem, and, if yes, how to fix it!

Sometimes, our server, gets "freezed": Npcs dont move, even if you attack them; users are paralyzed if they use a spell: they can chat, can make control attacks, but they can not move, they get in the same position for ever… until they re login.

Do you know anything about this??

[jcsnider]

Open your server and check the CPS, if it is 0 then you must restart the whole pc.

[troglodite]

We have no access to CPS, but through tests we found out these stuff:

-Data Packets can be sent/received normally

-GetTickCount works correctly

-The thing that seems not to work is GameLoop Procedeture, that would exlain why NPC's doesn't move, broken spell casts…

So i think when te server goes to Run Time X, GameLoop Stops Working

but data packets still on it. Is that possible?

[jcsnider]

Yes, the networking is completely separate from the server or game loop.

[troglodite]

I tested a little more and i realized neither Run Time 6 or 9 cause this bug. So i'm still searching what kind of thing freezes the server, any ideas?

[Matt]

Sounds like something is causing the loop to exit. This might be stupid, but if your gameloop uses a Do While, check to make sure that the variable the loop is dependable on isn't being changed. If not, something else might be causing the loop to stop. Check your loop's code to make sure the sub isn't being exited.