Weapon Swap giving UI Error

drkeys143 · July 2014

First of all, apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere, I have done a forum search and couldn't see anything.

I am intermittently getting a UI Error window in the middle of the screen while weapon swapping, doesn't happen all the time, and I have thought on a few occasions that I have cured it, then wham, it's back again. It appears that the culprit is the Foundry Tactical Combat add on, which I really like, and I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue, and if there is any known work-around?

I'm not sure what other info you need, but I am NB using DW/Bow, my other adds are Wykkyd Framework and Outfitter, and Greymind Quick Slot Bar, but I have disabled the mods one at a time, and the only time I seem to consistently get rid of the problem is when FTC is disabled, though with the problem being intermittent, it's hard to tell.

Would be grateful if anyone has a remedy, it isn't a massive thing when i am solo, but if I am in group when it happens, I have to spend several seconds freeing mouse, dismissing window, and re-focussing on battle, and it appears to those that I am with that I have just decided to stand there and do nothing, or sort my inventory out, while they are getting assailed by a mob

Garkin · July 2014

It doesn't go into the .ini file, but into .lua file. Choose one of your addons, open one of its .lua files in text editor and paste code to the very end of the file.

Garkin · July 2014

drkeys143 wrote: »

Well daemonius, I added the code kindly supplied in this thread, and have had no further trouble , UNTIL THIS MORNING! Lol

The problem today has not been quite the same though, but when I have been in combat and tried to switch weapons, I get the white text at top right of screen saying "you cannot change weapons now", and none of the white attacks work, I have to either run away or let the NPCs kill me and resurrect to clear it. Have never known this issue before, but has happened 3 times this morn, may just be the zone I was in at the time or something

This is completely different issue, this error message is a result of event EVENT_ABILITY_REQUIREMENTS_FAIL with the error code 154.
You can get this error message when you try to swap weapons while casting a spell.

To cancel cast just hit ESC (twice) or use this addon:
CancelCast: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info295-CancelCast.html

zgrssd · July 2014

It's a known bug on Zenimax side. We even found steps to reproduce:

Garkin wrote: »
I believe that this issue is not directly related to any addon. You can get the same error message even if you have all addons disabled.

Easy way how to reproduce this issue with disabled addons:
open inventory

place mouse cursor over any weapon, so you will see comparative tooltips

move cursor away at the same time as you press key to swap weapons

How to fix it? Report this issue to ZOS and/or add this line to the addon's initialization routine:
ZO_PreHook("ZO_InventorySlot_OnMouseEnter", function(slot) return slot == nil end)
Discussion:
http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1595

Theoretically Addons can fix that. but we prefer waiting on Zen to fix it on thier side.

drkeys143 · July 2014

Thanls so much for your prompt reply, much appreciated. Does this line need to go in any particular point of the ini file, or can I just add it at the end?

drkeys143 · July 2014

Great, thanks a lot for the answers guys, much appreciated

daemonios · July 2014

Is this problem in the known issues list? I very nearly died several times because of this. It happens not only when switching weapons (apparently at random, sometimes I get an error, other times I don't), but also when I used the Overload ultimate on my sorc (it would give a UI error 100% of the time, which was a pain since I tend to use my ultimate in harder fights...). I've switched to using the Storm Atronach ultimate and have been error-free when using my ultimate.

drkeys143 · July 2014

Well daemonius, I added the code kindly supplied in this thread, and have had no further trouble , UNTIL THIS MORNING! Lol

The problem today has not been quite the same though, but when I have been in combat and tried to switch weapons, I get the white text at top right of screen saying "you cannot change weapons now", and none of the white attacks work, I have to either run away or let the NPCs kill me and resurrect to clear it. Have never known this issue before, but has happened 3 times this morn, may just be the zone I was in at the time or something

zgrssd · July 2014

Garkin wrote: »

drkeys143 wrote: »

Well daemonius, I added the code kindly supplied in this thread, and have had no further trouble , UNTIL THIS MORNING! Lol

The problem today has not been quite the same though, but when I have been in combat and tried to switch weapons, I get the white text at top right of screen saying "you cannot change weapons now", and none of the white attacks work, I have to either run away or let the NPCs kill me and resurrect to clear it. Have never known this issue before, but has happened 3 times this morn, may just be the zone I was in at the time or something

This is completely different issue, this error message is a result of event EVENT_ABILITY_REQUIREMENTS_FAIL with the error code 154.
You can get this error message when you try to swap weapons while casting a spell.

To cancel cast just hit ESC (twice) or use this addon:
CancelCast: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info295-CancelCast.html

There is a know issues sounding similar to this (inlcuding double ESC to cancel), under Combat & Gameplay:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/114325/patch-v1-2-3-known-issues/p1

Gillysan · July 2014

I bug reported this error, once again, a couple days ago.

Gillysan · July 2014

daemonios wrote: »

Is this problem in the known issues list? I very nearly died several times because of this. It happens not only when switching weapons (apparently at random, sometimes I get an error, other times I don't), but also when I used the Overload ultimate on my sorc (it would give a UI error 100% of the time, which was a pain since I tend to use my ultimate in harder fights...). I've switched to using the Storm Atronach ultimate and have been error-free when using my ultimate.

This error is specific to weapon swapping. You probably have another bug.

Gillysan · August 2014

The above fix didn't work for me. I added it to Inventory Grid View but still happens. I disabled the addon and the error doesn't reference Inventory Grid View anymore.

I have bug reported once again and thus weapons swapping for me is still unusable.

Garkin · August 2014

Gillysan wrote: »

The above fix didn't work for me. I added it to Inventory Grid View but still happens. I disabled the addon and the error doesn't reference Inventory Grid View anymore.

I have bug reported once again and thus weapons swapping for me is still unusable.

If the code is loaded, it must work. My guess is that you have added code to some file which is not loaded/used.

Garkin · August 2014

Attached is stand-alone addon which will fix this issue. Install it as any other addon.

Gillysan · August 2014

Testing it out and will update here later. Thanks.

Just read the patch notes, they did something with weapons swapping. So it was looking good, now will have to see again if this error has been dealt with.

IceDread · August 2014

I find it weird that an addon might fix the weapon swap bug /latency that sometimes prevents weapon swapping.

Gillysan wrote: »

Testing it out and will update here later. Thanks.

Just read the patch notes, they did something with weapons swapping. So it was looking good, now will have to see again if this error has been dealt with.

How did the testing go?

Garkin · August 2014

IceDread wrote: »

I find it weird that an addon might fix the weapon swap bug /latency that sometimes prevents weapon swapping.

Gillysan wrote: »

Testing it out and will update here later. Thanks.

Just read the patch notes, they did something with weapons swapping. So it was looking good, now will have to see again if this error has been dealt with.

How did the testing go?

This addon does not fix any issues with latency.

It just fixes this UI error:

Gillysan · August 2014

I've been weapon swapping like mad just like in GW2. I don't dare take out the add-on to see if ZOS fixes made the add-on unneeded. Nothing like having 10 skills+2 ults to work with.

On occasion the latency messes me up some, but as noted this add-on isn't for that.

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