As far as AC blowing up when exiting.


Fot testing I used Tings as the only plugin. Enter Game and Exit game repeating until it blows.


What I am seeing is that i'm not getting a Terminate to my plugin.


When it gets a Terminate message it works fine.

This is caused by Decal.Adapter plugins improperly terminating com filters with ReleaseComObject. Not a decal problem.

 

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For me it can't be terminating com filters.


All of the terminating code is in the Terminate method.

So since i don't get Terminate called by Decal... i never get a chance to

do any terminations.

AlissaFreewind " I only crash out like this when I am using the TINGS plugin. Everything else there is no problem."


I have new version out. So far not had a single kaboom from it.

Flipo, still does it and points to the decalcontrols.dll, so apparently still is not sending correctly. It is the only plugin that does it, so I only load it when the cook/alchemy/fletch folks are working.

Well this needs to be fixed imho. Excuses make up half of business. People get rich of this stuff.

Instead of whining you could ask plugin developers to ensure their plugins are not causing crashes.

 

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Just wanted to add my 2 cents. I rebuilt all 4 of my systems this past weekend. No plugins installed. When I log in and out of ac, no crashes. As I started to add plugins back, then ac started to crash again.

This happens to me in two situations, one of which I have a surefire solution for. In both cases it only happens when I have ElTank running.


First, it sometimes happen when I have just logged out a toon, at the character selection screen, and try to log in another toon. This appears to ONLY happen when I log in the second toon too quickly, and IMHO, it is happening because ElTank does not handle the "Character already in world" message very well. Waiting 10-15 seconds before logging in the second toon usually prevents it, but not always.


Second, it almost always happens when logging out a toon that I have not logged in with ElTank before. In this case it happens before you ever get back to the character selection screen.


For this second case, I have found a solution that ALWAYS works.


To fix the crashing on logging out, you need to manually edit one of the Windows Registry entries for EACH toon that logs in and out when Tank is on.


These are directions for WinXP:


--Start Menu/Run: Type in REGEDIT, and then click OK

--Open HK_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Decal Plugins\ELTank

--Select the name of the toon you want to repair

--In the right pane, right-click on GUI, and then click Modify in the context menu

--For Value data:, type in 7, and then click OK (activates all the GUIs in Tank)

--Repeat for all other characters that crash

--Close the registry window


I do this for every toon that crashes while logging out, and they never crash again. -- But if they crash at some other time than when logging out that toon, this does not fix the problem.

 

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The crash does NOT only occur while running El Tank. It does however ONLY occur when decal is running. It may be El Tank or Ltx not sure.

 

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