ClassicUO Tab Refreshes. | ClassicUO | Page 1

sudden pine Apr 30, 2023, 2:38 AM

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I noticed that sometimes the tab I'm on seems to refresh, and suddenly the whole screen goes black except for the right-hand sidebar menu. I don't even need to be doing anything, if there's a script running it keeps running and I hear the character executing the script, I just don't see anything anymore. I don't know if this is related, but I usually have more than one tab with ClassicUO running.

If I use the mouse pointer to move, I can hear the character walking.

The only thing you can do in this case is to reload the window.

deep fjord Apr 30, 2023, 3:20 AM

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sudden pine I noticed that sometimes the tab I'm on seems to refresh, and suddenly the whole...

Usually it means there was some kind error during rendering, I've seen it when using old graphics card drivers, try updating them if they're an old version.
Next time it happens, can you open developer tools in Chrome and screenshot the Console tab? I might be able to tell you what's causing it.

sudden pine May 1, 2023, 11:58 AM

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I just log in, and that happens

deep fjord May 1, 2023, 12:36 PM

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Do you have much free disk space?

sudden pine May 1, 2023, 1:24 PM

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24G

deep fjord May 1, 2023, 1:56 PM

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that error generally means Chrome couldn't open the UO file for some reason, did it work again after refreshing or is it still broken?

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you could try restarting Chrome itself as well to see if that helps

sudden pine May 1, 2023, 2:03 PM

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deep fjord that error generally means Chrome couldn't open the UO file for some reason, did...

Refresh all ways solve the problem.

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This is the first time it has happened like this, usually it happens when I'm playing and the screen seems to update and everything goes black. If it happens this way, I will also let you know.

sudden pine May 1, 2023, 7:32 PM

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It happened again. This time, the tabs of "ClassicUO" were on a tab that I wasn't viewing. I was away from the computer for a while with the macro running, and when I returned to the computer, more than an hour later, I clicked on a tab that was already open on YouTube, and when I pressed play, it started playing and the browser flickered. When I looked back at the game, it had a black screen, but it was still running.

I have the memory-saving feature disabled in my browser, so theoretically, that shouldn't be the problem. However, I have seen this behavior occur within the game tab itself while the "ClassicUO" tab was open.
chrome://settings/performance

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I missed mentioning a part earlier. When I returned to the computer, the first thing I did was check the game, and it was running. Then, as I was browsing other tabs, the browser flickered specifically when I pressed play on the already opened YouTube tab that had been open for some time. As I had seen this behavior in the "ClassicUO" tab, I checked how the game tab was doing and it had been affected.

sudden pine May 1, 2023, 9:38 PM

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Something different happened just now, I was just running and the game froze.

deep fjord May 2, 2023, 12:16 AM

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Looks like an issue with your PC and/or Chrome, the CONTEXT_LOST_WEBGL and browser flickering is some kind of crash or Windows interrupting to reap resources. You can try checking chrome://crashes/ and see if there's any reports from that time, which you can choose to send to the Chrome team.
I personally have never seen this kind of crash but it's technically possible for us to "recover" by recreating and reinitialising the canvas context, but that might be a lot of work. I'll have a look when I have time but no guarantees.

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There's not much we can do to prevent it from happening sadly, we don't have any control over when the Browser/Windows decides to kill a graphics context. So I suggest like I said before, upgrading graphics drivers, also upgrading Chrome if it's not latest in-case it got fixed already.

sudden pine May 4, 2023, 1:11 PM

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The browser is already up-to-date, there is an update available for the graphics card, but I haven't done it yet, and in the last few days, it hasn't happened anymore. I'm updating the graphics card, but I don't think it's the cause.

I believe it's just the browser. I usually leave multiple tabs open in the browser to view later when I have time or for reference. When a tab is inactive for hours, and I visit it again, it starts to load again, especially on the YouTube page.

One scenario that occurs is when I leave a video that I started watching and stopped in another tab for hours, and when I return to that tab and click to continue playback, the video plays for a few moments and then stops and reloads the entire page, and then continues playing. Whenever this reloading behavior happens, if I go to look at ClassicUO, it will have been affected and the screen will be black.

I believe you may have more important issues to address, and I only mentioned this case in case other users are experiencing the same thing. If you cannot reproduce this behavior, I don't think it's important because it's only affecting one user.

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