Rex-Umbra wrote: »

My theory is we have a memory leak most likely associated with quest completed. Similar to the long load screens after Imperial City, my reasoning is it doesn't affect all my characters just my end game characters. I can play an alt character fine zero issues then log on my main and wait 5 minutes for NPCs to load at the exact spot my alt was having zero issues.

I noticed this also.

ScottK1994 wrote: »

I don't know about that memory leak(I'm not educated in those topics) but I can confirm that low level characters are less buggy

The more items needed to be run through loops, the more the stack of memory gets added to.

If you are checking say 200 variables with a low level char, nbd, but you get to cp160 and you are running 2,000. Basically the memory pool gets overflowed, causing wonky behavior.

Stack overflow is one of the worst possible errors to identify because it literally could be one micro check of one variable that is recursive

ScottK1994 wrote: »

And what about the portion of players that don't have these issues. Are they simply lucky?

not lucky, just haven't run into the subroutine which is recursive or haven't entered into the loop that is broken.

Basically there is an instruction somewhere that tells itself to check itself against itself, and if itself is = to itself, do something, which literally overruns the buffer for memory and causes everything to halt.

You can kill this by removing all stored variables from your system, probably, but if you enter into that loop again, its just a matter of time.

This is completely a guess, an educated one, but a guess none the less.

while nothing is happening run donothing

donothing
{
nothing is happening
}