Out of memory (? - new type of crash)

[John Adams]

Mostly posting this because I've never seen it -ever- before running a game client. This was immediately after a reboot. I'm just short of re-installing my entire OS.
Out of Memory
This happened after I selected my toon to enter the world, as you see it was counting spawns. Just FYI, not sure anything can be done here.

[LethalEncounter]

I have seen that error plenty Basically it was just a corrupt packet the client tried to load. There was probably a dynamic 32 bit field for which the client tried to grab enough memory.

[John Adams]

Ok, it only happened that once so far.

[LethalEncounter]

Yah,it wouldnt typically happen to most people but I tend to mess around with the network code quite a bit.

[Arremis]

Playing on Live, I've run into this bug MANY times, especially when running through South Qeynos. Not surprisingly, SoE blames the user-end computer, and now we know the truth! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[LethalEncounter]

But like almost all crashes in EQ2, there can be several reasons for it to die. The out of memory problem can be caused by a bad packet (especially if it is trying to grab huge amounts of memory), or it could just be a problem with the game. I started encountering it earlier this week when I was just standing still in a single location for too long.

[John Adams]

Yup, I'd have a char crash for various reasons just standing still too with no server activity. But hopefully that's all behind us now.