I hope after stadia dies we can go back to one week maintenances or sooner

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

Just disable the nodedetection library...that fixes it for most folks, if you are still affected then yeah, that sucks.

I was just following their advice to disable all addons.

Though having that disabled is not nice as well, since I didn't grind skyshards as much on the PC because of HarvestMap.

I am rebuilding from scratch, after leaving a LOT behind (mounts, houses, etc. And Crowns!). And now this.

I can understand if they need to find the problem and fix it, but most who develop software can get a partial fix out quickly for serious problems. A 2 week wait is a LOT of potential playtime. And 2 weeks of my now cancelled ESO+ time. (It was cancelled before this.)

I now do wish I had not given in and gotten several Crown packs during the last sale. I will be walking from a chunk of those if I stop playing. Though I have done so with other games. I like to support the games I play, but several things are pushing me away here and I am not a "I wanted it harder" player!

Never had that library and I started crashing to desktop after yesterday's patch...

It can be part of addon, not seperated mod. Do you checked every folder of your all addons? For example, very popular mod "Harvest map" have this folder, you can rename it and still using this and many other mods. I have dozens of them and everything is fine.

Also make sure that new option of hiding pets in town is disabled, because it makes crashes too.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

This is a very disappoint thing.

Maybe I will give up the Endeavor grind (and even finishing riding training) and just do something else or focus on another MMO. Not a good plan/solution.

Its just the Harvestmap that is the problem. Just remove that ONE addon and corresponding Libraries that Only affect Harvestmap.

Everything else I have runs fine. Haven't crashed at all.

Everyone I know has been playing with absolutely no issues whatsoever with all their addons, just disable NodeDetection.

There is plenty you can blame the company for - blaming them for a 3rd party software confliction is not a sensible option.

Add ons are, were and always will be 'use at your own risk'. Don't make the mistake of thinking Add ons are part of ESO - they're an optional extra that ZOS tries to make not screw up your whole game.

And since there are people crashing outside of Add ons, let's focus on those people first eh.

opalcity wrote: »

Console users manage to do endeavours and everything else without addons, what addons do you rely on this much that make the game so unplayable in their very temporary absence?

Would never play the game on console, or without addons, and my guilds get console refugees every day.

TooWeak2Live wrote: »

But thanks for echoing the standard ZOS excuse for ignoring API related problems.

They aren't ignoring it. They've acknowledged the problem and are working on a fix that will be deployed on Nov. 14.

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

Just disable the nodedetection library...that fixes it for most folks, if you are still affected then yeah, that sucks.

It has to be another add on too. I had a crash with a different set of add ons.

redlink1979 wrote: »

I'm using all my add-ons normally (I just turned off NodeDetection as suggested here on Nov 1st).
Later today I will try travelling to the new area, so I can check if I don't get any roll backs.

I waited until yesterday afternoon to go to Galen (mainly because it wasn't part of my Witches Festival routine, so I kinda forgot about it until the event was over), and I didn't get any roll-backs. Even when I went there again this morning, before the hotfix maintenance.

While some addons may cause crashes (and the NodeDetection library is the most prominent and repeatable one):

Not all crashes are addon-related. The game manages to crash on its own perfectly fine.
Two bugs they've already hotfixed. But hiding pets in towns, enabling combat logging, and maybe a few others will also crash your game, with no addons involved.

opalcity wrote: »

Console users manage to do endeavours and everything else without addons, what addons do you rely on this much that make the game so unplayable in their very temporary absence?

I know, it makes me laugh what some of the add-ons do, they may as well have something that plays the game for them, while they kick back with a brew and take credit.

Luke_Flamesword wrote: »

Never had that library and I started crashing to desktop after yesterday's patch...

It can be part of addon, not seperated mod. Do you checked every folder of your all addons? For example, very popular mod "Harvest map" have this folder, you can rename it and still using this and many other mods. I have dozens of them and everything is fine.

Also make sure that new option of hiding pets in town is disabled, because it makes crashes too.

I simply checked Minion to see if it's installed and it's not. However, Minion updated Lazy Writ Crafter yesterday, I disabled that add on and I played 20 mins without crashes before having to log off for work. Will do more testing when I get home.

Danikat wrote: »

If you don't want to play without addons and don't want to wait 2 weeks I think it's worth taking the time to enable addons one by one to see which one/s are causing problems, so you only have to keep those ones turned off and can use the others. It might well be only 1 addon that's causing you problems.

Also the 2 week delay isn't because that's how long it takes ZOS to find and fix the problem, it's because they have to go through a certification process for Stadia like they do for consoles.

One way is to enable an set of them like half, see if you get problems if not add another group.
Found that alts with lots of survey maps and treasure maps are more affected

zaria wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

If you don't want to play without addons and don't want to wait 2 weeks I think it's worth taking the time to enable addons one by one to see which one/s are causing problems, so you only have to keep those ones turned off and can use the others. It might well be only 1 addon that's causing you problems.

Also the 2 week delay isn't because that's how long it takes ZOS to find and fix the problem, it's because they have to go through a certification process for Stadia like they do for consoles.

One way is to enable an set of them like half, see if you get problems if not add another group.
Found that alts with lots of survey maps and treasure maps are more affected

If you've got a lot of addons that's probably a good way to do it.

I've 'only' got 19 installed (and don't use all of them on most of my characters) so when I'm having problems it's usually just as easy to do it one at a time and see what happens.

This time I didn't have any problems with addons. I had one crash just after turning on the new option to hide pets and heading to the crafting stations in Alinor, which is apparently a separate problem (I'm now keeping that option off until it's fixed).

When I have had to play without addons for a while I'm often surprised by the ones I miss. Like Random Mount, which randomly changes your mount and pet when you change areas. It's probably the most pointless addon I have, but when it's not working I miss it. The only one I didn't want to play without was made part of the base game years ago - the one which added subcategories to the inventory window.