Can ADD-Ons cause Random Game Crashes?

genadine · 04/20/14, 09:07 AM

As the title says, I am running with quite a few Add-Ons and over the last few days I am getting lots of random client crashes, stood still bam crash, finish quest bam crash, NPC dialogue bam crash, zoning bam crash.

There is nothing in particular I am doing each time.

Any thoughts?

Stormknight · 04/20/14, 09:45 AM

It's certainly possible as the LUA interface isn't as robust as it could be for ESO.

There are known ways of crashing the game with addon script.

I suggest disabling some addons to see if the problem goes away.

ins · 04/20/14, 12:52 PM

/script d(%i)

Is enough to crash the game.

BadVolt · 04/20/14, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by ins

/script d(%i)

Is enough to crash the game.

I think everyone just tried it.

thelegendaryof · 04/20/14, 04:34 PM

Reading the above I feel like it might be more like faulty (v)ram that 's causing this. But yep, it 's possible.

Does it happen without addons as well? Even if no, these might just be pushing your boundaries just over the point of it. Anyway - try going from zero to hero (as in disabling every addon, enabling one by one doing long-term tests before enabling another one). If you by any chance find the fauly one, one might take a glance at the sourcecode of it and tell you if that might be the case or not.

Originally Posted by BadVolt

I think everyone just tried it.

I wish I could but my GFX-Card ****ed up itself even before I could lol.

Vicster0 · 04/21/14, 05:12 AM

I wrote an infinite loop once while developing one of my addons and crashed the game. If there's a will, there's a way.

ckaotik · 04/25/14, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by ins

/script d(%i)

Another nice one I encountered was

Code:

for k, v in mystring:gmatch('(.+') do
    -- do stuff. noticed the missing ) in the pattern above?
end

**Seerah** · 04/25/14, 08:54 PM

I got a crash from d("10%)

I forgot the closing quotes.

drunky · 05/27/14, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by genadine

As the title says, I am running with quite a few Add-Ons and over the last few days I am getting lots of random client crashes, stood still bam crash, finish quest bam crash, NPC dialogue bam crash, zoning bam crash.

There is nothing in particular I am doing each time.

Any thoughts?

yes it's possible. I had one of those addon that caused the ESO client to crash at random. Some time i had the crash windows show up (sending a report to ZOS) but not always. I found out it was an addon by disabling one of them and never had a crash since that.