Bag-Mods causing crashes

[HATE_ETERNAL]

Hi everyone.
I tried to use a bag mod that promises to save the position of my bags and somehow it did not work (Causes chrashing of EQ2.exe while adding character to zone after logging in). So I tried almost every other bag mod from this page... same thing too.

Does someone have a clue what this could depend on?? Or to ask in another way: Did someone get ANY boag-mod workinG?

Regards, Maver.

[FloridaFringe]

There were several updates to how the bags work over the past 6 months. Make absolutely certain that you are using an up-to-date mod.

FYI: The default bags save their positions so theres no need to use a mod for that reason. Are there any other specific reasons that you want a bag mod?

[HATE_ETERNAL]

Originally Posted by FloridaFringe

There were several updates to how the bags work over the past 6 months. Make absolutely certain that you are using an up-to-date mod.

Ok I will try another really, really UP-TO-DATE mod... Thx for the advice.

Originally Posted by FloridaFringe

FYI: The default bags save their positions so theres no need to use a mod for that reason. Are there any other specific reasons that you want a bag mod?

Yes, there is a specific reason. I'm often "enjoying" absolutely nice and exclusive graphic "features", which means, that textures of trees and sometimes even mobs or other characters disappear and become a thicky undescribeable....... feauture (can't describe this ugly sh.... another way )

To solve this for a little time I change my refresh rate from 85 to 75 and back. Textures ok - bags put all over the screen.
One time it happened that the bags were "Off-screen" and I had to reset my whole Interface to default which took me almost 2 hours to replace, resize and-so-on everything.
Never want to make this experience again

[Othesus]

If you're seeing corrupted textures or other graphics problems, most likely your video card is over heating. You should probably post in the EQ2 tech support forums to try and fix that.

In regards to bags moving around, when you change your screen resolution some bags tend to move around. I think this happens with the default UI and all bag mods. It's related to the position of the bags and the way window positions are saved relative to the closest edge of the screen or letterbox.

[FloridaFringe]

Yes, unfortunately this an SOE issue and can't be fixed with a bag mod. I wish it could though. This issue has caused me problems on more than enough occasions by switching between Full and Windowed mode. Thank Zonx for his Locator window

Sorry to say but I think that the only thing that we can do is to petition SOE about it until they can look into the matter.

BTW, sorry if the Up-To-Date comment was vague but I wasn't really sure which mods you had attempted so that seemed like the way to phrase that particular bit of advice. At any rate, best of luck.

[HATE_ETERNAL]

Hi, I have no finally fixed these crashings at logging in when using bag mods.
Ther was just no "eq2ui_mainhud.xml" in my custom ui folder. I copied the one from default UI folder and it worked fine with every bag mod I tried.

To these graphical issues I have to say that this is not the fault of my video card. The card is always in temperature regions which are absolutely usual for this chip. I watched that with some applications and by the way, I never have any kind of these issues in other games. Moreover these glitches appear only sometimes and disappear if I change the refresh rate so it can't have anything to do with the temperature...
I think it is some problem with the Syncframe and triple Buffer.

After all I can say my problem is fixed now. I can use bag mods and that is what I asked for....
The main reason that I wanted to use bag mods is not the changing of positions when switching to windowed mode, I could live with that. It's that my bags one time completely moved OFF screen and I had to reset the whole interface to get them bag. This is still a riddle I have to solve. Never want to experience that again.

Thank you all for your advices.
Regards, Maver.

[FloridaFringe]

Glad to hear that you've gotten the problem resolved.

Just to clairify, the problem with the bags moving offscreen has to do with a bug that SOE needs to fix. Depending on where you originally have your bags placed will make the difference on whether or not they disappear off screen when the resolution / refresh is changed. There are no bag mods currently available that will change that since it's an SOE problem.

However, if you make sure that your bags are not placed near the edges of your monitor then there shouldn't be much chance of them disappearing off screen. I"ve found that the biggest problem area is near the bottom of the screen. If I have a bag placed right at the bottom of the screen then when I go into Windowed mode that bag will completely disappear off screen but all of my bags seem to shift down as well (not right, left or up). Hopefully they can get this looked at soon enough.

BTW, the issue with the bags disappearing and then having to load the UI completely is a bit easier to deal with when you have the Fetish Locator, which allows you to reposition individual windows without being able to see them and without touching the rest of the UI. Helps out a ton.

[HATE_ETERNAL]

Originally Posted by FloridaFringe

BTW, the issue with the bags disappearing and then having to load the UI completely is a bit easier to deal with when you have the Fetish Locator, which allows you to reposition individual windows without being able to see them and without touching the rest of the UI. Helps out a ton.

Could you explain that? I don't use Fetish Ui - can I use it nevertheless?
I think for first, this should be a great help.

[Othesus]

Hmm, if your windows really get messed up usually it's easiest to just use /load_uisettings and load the positions from another character. Or, you can just back up your server_character_eq2_uisettings.ini file somewhere and load those.