Thraxz

Well here's some SS of what happens. Note the FPS just above the travel window.

Before turning off lotroLCD plugin.
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/Nazgulofminasmorgul/ScreenShot00059-1.jpg

After turning off lotroLCD. (literally 5 seconds later)
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk319/Nazgulofminasmorgul/ScreenShot00060-1.jpg

vindalfur

Ok, sounds like it's not a memory leak, I'm thinking it might be a file handle leak instead, I'm having a hard time reproducing it over here, I can keep it running several hours without issues, perhaps you could check the file handle count instead of the memory usage?

R.

Jarl


Hi, I ran the game again and then turned on the plugin after a few hours of being normal. Ram usage was at 1.8GB. After another hour of using the plugin the performance took its usual dive and I checked the ram usage on the the client and plug in. Ram usage of the client was still ~1.8GB and the lotrolcd was only at ~18MB, up from about 2MB at start up. My free ram was over 50% (6GB). I don't think this will help.

Thraxz

Hi, I ran the game again and then turned on the plugin after a few hours of being normal. Ram usage was at 1.8GB. After another hour of using the plugin the performance took its usual dive and I checked the ram usage on the the client and plug in. Ram usage of the client was still ~1.8GB and the lotrolcd was only at ~18MB, up from about 2MB at start up. My free ram was over 50% (6GB). I don't think this will help.

Thraxz

My 'just booted up' memory usage on the client is 1.333Gb (1920x1200 resolution and everything on does that). I'll load up the plugin in a bit and get back to you.

vindalfur

Thanks for alerting me to this issue, just to clarify you mean you have to restart the LOTRO client not the LotroLCD.exe right? Sounds like an issue with the way the LUA code loads data, I copied the methodology for data loading from DPSMeter and although it's brilliant in allowing realtime data loading it uses a method which is a bit hackish and I suspect it's this form of data loading that causes a memory leak in the Lotro client.

If this happens again do you think you could help me verify this by opening up the Windows Task Manager and checking how much Memory (working set) the Lotro.exe client is using before restarting the client?

In the meantime I'll try to find a way of releasing the memory but It's quite possible it can't be done in LUA and I don't have access to the Lotro client code to fix it in there.

I've added it to my issues list:
http://code.google.com/p/lotrolcd/issues/detail?id=18

Jarl Stefansson
Vindalfur @ Brandywine
[email protected]

Thraxz

I've an issue while running this plugin on Windows7 64 bit. When first loaded it works perfectly and continues to do so. After a few hours of play my computer's performance in game grinds to a crawl. Like from 100-50 FPS down to 30-10FPS. If I restart the client or disable the plugin performance returns to normal.

Hardware is an i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz, 6gb ram, an ATI 4870 and an SSD.

Thanks.

Kharma

Well, I reinstalled the program, to be sure that I had the latest version. Started the client, then started Lotro, start logging, then started the plugin. It's working perfectly now. I'm not sure what the issue was, or how it was resolved... but it's working fine now, without the work-around.

vindalfur

Fyndir, it sounds like your having the same issue as Kharma, can you try starting the LotroLCD client after you start combat logging and see if that is a valid workaround until I'm able to fix the issue?

Regards

Jarl

vindalfur

The client should periodically check for newer log files and if they are found it should switch to those, thanks for the debugging, it gives me a great place to start tracking down the fault.

Can you verify that you have the latest version of the client (1.0.5), I've tried downloading the X86 client from this page and the dallur.com links and on my machines and virtual machines it always picks up new files automatically so I'm at a loss as to why this is happening.

Regards

Jarl

Kharma

Okay! This got me thinking... and I tried starting the game and combat/IM logging BEFORE starting the LotroLCD client. Viola! I now have a working DPS meter! I just had to give it files to read BEFORE it found none and created it's own.

Kharma

I am Meodrid's wife. I just put Windows 7 (32bit) on my computer, and re-tried this plugin. No luck, even with the link (86) you posted here. I followed the directions exactly, and the plugin installs, opens and runs, but ingame it's just a black box with the "LotroLCD" in it. It can't seem to find my combat logs. Any ideas?
ETA: I have checked to make sure that the combat log is saving in the right folder.
MORE INFO: Okay, after doing some more troubleshooting, I've discovered that when I open LotroLCD.exe, it creates a file named Combat_20000101_1 and begins reading it. Then when I start combat logging on my game, IT creates a file named Combat20101017_1 and starts saving there! How do I get the plugin to read the same file that the game is saving into?

vindalfur

If nothing is shown on the Logitech LCD or the in game plugin that would indicate that LotroLCD is not finding the log files.

Can you verify that log entries are being sent to your combat log file and the location of your combat log?

On Vista it should be under C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ and be called something like Combat_20101017_1.txt

Just check in there and make sure that it contains some data.

Jarl

Fyndir

Ok, I've downloaded the latest version, installed on Vista, have the latest Logitech driver for my G15, load the program from the shortcut, log into the game, log the combat channel, start up LotroLCD via /plugins command, the LotroLCD window comes up, and I get the little bars on the LCD display, but no text associated with them and I get nothing in the way of any kind of DPS recording when in combat. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Fyn

vindalfur

Version 1.0.5 adds a combat timer showing the total time since the combat started and sorted damage (Common, Fire, etc) types are now available to LUA although they are not shown because they would clutter current UI.
Also the client now prevents more than one instance to run on the same machine to prevent multiple running clients.

vindalfur

Version 1.0.4 fixes an issue where app would not run correctly on Windows 2000/XP and fixes a rare crashbug with very complex combats.