Strange things happened tonight

[Azkadilla]

Used the program after the patch so it isnt that

It loads all the games, logs in, when first action is intitated the slave toon games crashes.

Nothing in the set up has changed from yesterday.

very strange

[Tim]

Try running WoW repair, and then making sure you aren't using Recount.

[Azkadilla]

Thank you Tim,

I must have turned Recount back on during my solo gaming earlier

Problem fixed

YOU ARE THE KING!

[Poyzon]

Interesting. I wonder if wiping and reinstalling Recount would have any effect.

I've seen people mention Skada as a light-weight Recount alternative (not as graphically flashy, but gets the job done).

[Azkadilla]

I can leave it on the master and everything works it's when it is on on the slaves that it crashes the slave games

[fogy]

Gads. I haven't seen this yet, but yikes, because I love Recount.

[TheMuffinMan]

I want to know how I can run Recount across all 5 characters from the same WoW install without ever really clearing out my cache or anything and never have a single problem...

[adz4u28]

Originally Posted by TheMuffinMan

I want to know how I can run Recount across all 5 characters from the same WoW install without ever really clearing out my cache or anything and never have a single problem...

dump recount, and get tinydps.

TinyDPS : Combat Mods : WoWInterface Downloads

[TheMuffinMan]

Originally Posted by adz4u28

dump recount, and get tinydps.

TinyDPS : Combat Mods : WoWInterface Downloads

Why? It is working perfectly.

[Tim]

I ran into this issue I believe it was 4 days ago myself.

My setup:

4x Pallies on 1x WoW install which is copied over from my standard WoW install folder that I've had since 2005.

My problem:

I would load up all 4 WoWs just fine. Then about 30-240 seconds into the game, game window #3 would freeze up. This happened every single time, literally over 10 times in a row. I've seen this before many times so I decided to take a more analytical approach.

This is what I did:

Rebooted - Crash still happened (hey, its the #1 rule to trying to fix things heh)
Cleared cache - Crash still happened
Moved WoW installs to a diff drive - Crash still happened
Defragged original drive - Crash still happened
Ran WoW repair tool then copied back my addons - Crash still happened
Reinstalled Pwnboxer - Crash still happened
Used the 3 prior verions of Pwnboxer - Crash still happened
Used new Pwnboxer configuration - Crash still happened

I Disabled WoW mods, 1 at a time, and re-ran WoW. I had 32 addons total. Every time the game would crash except when I had the Recount addon disabled.

Removed Recount from my addon folder - Wow starts and runs perfectly.
Readd Recount to my addon folder - Same WoW window would crash


So for me, for this scenario, the exact reason why Recount would crash WoW doesn't really matter, however, what really mattered was that when I removed Recount, the crashes would stop happening.

Further, I've had over a dozen people email/PM/post on the forums about crashing, and having them remove Recount all solved their problems.

Now that isn't to say that using Recount makes you crash 100%, no, because I have had other multiboxing groups whereas recount works fine.

So whatever the reason, if you have Recount and you crash, I do know that removing Recount stops WoW from crashing.

EDIT: Just for kicks I re-added recount to my 4x Pally setup, and sure enough, crash