APB Ultimate

[electropica]

My timeout problems look to be solved in the last version.
Good work.

[Rhendanwan]

@Rhendanwan:
See hops: 5 and 9:


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On the first example, hop 5 is in the range of 20-30ms. for a network packet to go through but you see out of 3 packets sent only the first packet took 24ms. The other two packets did 202 and 204ms. This shows an unstable router in your routing to the gateway. This particular router is probably dropping packets entirely everynow and then causing you timeouts. Subsequent traceroutes may at some point show asterisks instead of ms values which means dropped packet. When that happens you have no connection to the gateway as packets are being dropped.
Hop 9, also shows the same thing, normal range for that hop is 40-90ms yet 2 packets return with 304ms and 332ms. Since hop 9 is after hop 5 and packets go through hop 5 to reach 9, it may as well be that hop 5 is causing the issue you see on hop 9 as well (packets sent to 9 are delayed at 5) or it's also possible that 9 is also misbehaving (5% chance on that -- usually there's only one point of failure).
Unfortunately this is the nature of the internet and large WAN type networks in general, routers can misbehave, malfunction or go under a DOS attack..usually these things are addressed fast enough by the administrators of the routers. But if you see the issue continuing then you should copy/paste several traceroutes and email your ISP about it, attaching them to you emails, so they can apply some pressure to the admins of said routers in order to fix them. Usually the first hops are in your ISP's network (you can see that from the DNS names/IP addresses on those hops. If 5 is a router that belongs to your ISP they are responsible for it and should fix it themselves and you may as well pester them right now about it.

I understand that I can get disconnected and that is not such a problem,I thought the bot wasn't logging back in after I get disconnected and that would've been a problem.

but I forgot I changed max timeout to 10.. and each new try is 37 seconds apart it seems so it is a long time to log back in.
so I've changed max timeout to 5 again and put it to "relog to gateway" option and that seems to work fine for now... phew finally

[Disc]

This is kind of an odd suggestion but any way we can have the app [optionally] jump into sword coast adventures and grab the daily reward? Not a big deal but sometimes nice stuff pops out of those professions packs it drops.

Thanks.

[BaseN]

Well, I did it, and just found out that there is no reason such tasks on Russian server. If you want, I can send screenshots. Why would I lie to you, I have tried all possible ways to detect these tasks, but they are not.

I never implied that you were lying to me. Sorry if it read the way I just can't possibly know how much you know/understand about what you are doing and I want to be 100% sure that the files are correct before I start spending time to implement support for this. You must understand that I am just trying to protect myself from a situation where I spend a few hours working on something only to find out that it can't work because something else is wrong that I can't fix myself.

I will post in a while the rest of the required strings.

i must be doing something wrong but i wont work for me... i filled in everything like i should, and when i press start the bot loggs in fine and selects right character but then it just keeps saying "loading nvw gateway" and keeps getting timed out...

any help? xD
this is the logg:

Sounds like either your "@account" or the character name is misspelled. You may also want to edit out the character name when you post a log.

I understand that I can get disconnected and that is not such a problem,I thought the bot wasn't logging back in after I get disconnected and that would've been a problem.

but I forgot I changed max timeout to 10.. and each new try is 37 seconds apart it seems so it is a long time to log back in.
so I've changed max timeout to 5 again and put it to "relog to gateway" option and that seems to work fine for now... phew finally

Good to hear

This is kind of an odd suggestion but any way we can have the app [optionally] jump into sword coast adventures and grab the daily reward? Not a big deal but sometimes nice stuff pops out of those professions packs it drops.

Once all the profession aspect features are done, I will check if this is possible or not. No promises though as I have no idea if this is even possible as I believe SCA is in flash.

[Scazy00]

BaseN, No problem. If I just do something, do it efficiently, you are one of all those who have agreed to make a program for Russian and its part of the job I want to do well, because I know that you spend your time for us. And when you replace a strings in the program, I myself will be tested for proper operation, check the logs, all jobs, so do not worry about my job, I'll do it well.
Thanks for your help

[packetlossb]

I did have some timeout problems with 3.6 (different than the ones from 3.5 - in 3.5 it was switching characters, with 3.6 it seemed to be which collecting rewards). I'm now running 3.8 so I will see if any of them show up again.

[BaseN]

I did have some timeout problems with 3.6 (different than the ones from 3.5 - in 3.5 it was switching characters, with 3.6 it seemed to be which collecting rewards). I'm now running 3.8 so I will see if any of them show up again.

If you have any timeouts at collecting rewards, increase the Internal Timeout setting

[BaseN]

BaseN, No problem. If I just do something, do it efficiently, you are one of all those who have agreed to make a program for Russian and its part of the job I want to do well, because I know that you spend your time for us. And when you replace a strings in the program, I myself will be tested for proper operation, check the logs, all jobs, so do not worry about my job, I'll do it well.
Thanks for your help

Alright

Check your PMs.

[zheeth]

Umm, I think I found a problem, here's what I know so far:
After getting disconnected with "DNS not responding", the bot stops at a gray screen, and just waits there, and after I click "Stop" or the "x" to close it and reopen, my pc freezes, I've traced it down to ram getting clogged up, and after I opened my C drive, I found a 20 gb pagefile.sys. Don't know how or why. I've opened task manager and tried to recreate it, and I saw that it was using more and more ram, steadily increasing by 20-30 mb per second. Here: https://i.imgur.com/PMFUrp2.png

Other then that, it's been rock solid, good job

[BaseN]

Umm, I think I found a problem, here's what I know so far:
After getting disconnected with "DNS not responding", the bot stops at a gray screen, and just waits there, and after I click "Stop" or the "x" to close it and reopen, my pc freezes, I've traced it down to ram getting clogged up, and after I opened my C drive, I found a 20 gb pagefile.sys. Don't know how or why. I've opened task manager and tried to recreate it, and I saw that it was using more and more ram, steadily increasing by 20-30 mb per second. Here: https://i.imgur.com/PMFUrp2.png

Other then that, it's been rock solid, good job

DNS not responding means your network went haywire

That said I need the log where this happened. It means at the exact point where your network died, I am not handling the stop button correctly. There are too many loops in the code that need to stop when that buttons is pressed (or the X button is hit which does the equivalent of hitting the stop button before closing). It is always possible that some edge scenario is not accounted for so I need the log to figure out where exactly APBU was when you clicked the stop button.

The rest is just the result of the above. If the stop button is not handled properly somewhere and you hit it, then you get stuck in an infinite loop that allocates memory on the heap ad infinitum. When you run out of commitable memory windows will increase the pagefile in order to prevent an out of memory condition that results in a stop error/bsod (even if you have set a fixed size). This is how windows works.

[zheeth]

Hmm, I've done some further testing, the log won't do you any good as it happens on multiple different occurrences, which all have one thing in common, failure to load a page because of my network failing (I'm guessing since there is no connection to the internet it receives no data and thereby "loses its mind"). I've also found out that pressing "Stop" alone only inflates CPU usage, while pressing "x" inflates both RAM and CPU. However, I had no issue closing or stopping if there was no page loading failure to begin with.

[BaseN]

I still need to see logs. Multiple logs.

[Darxide23]

Glad to hear that! Next on the TODO list are the optional assets. So soon you'll be missing nothing heh.

As long as it doesn't spend 75g on Coal like APBI did then I'll be happy

[RottenMind]

with first workable, i think the bot tries each task, and once he managed to start one, when finished, it will start again at the beginning of the tasks list no ?

do you think you could add a line command such as -start to the .EXE, so that it waits for 1 minute and start by itself ? that would be useful when rebooting and restarting all bots (i am already using .bat and start command )

Is this option implemented? I (can) use simple "image_search" to find "Start" -button and start APBU after reboot, but commandline -option is better or if APBU windows buttons has names so they can be located by external script. Basically same script what I use with APBI but longer restart timer because its more stable, .

EXPORT/IMPORT (load/save) and load RECENT profile.

Can those options work same way how they worked in APBI? Currently I change one profile settings and after script restarts then all instances are updated... in APBU this must be done by hand or I must make new script for that. Well, making script for will be fun, but for easy use it is not.

Or at least can you add option to change DEFAULT directory for EXPORT/IMPORT so all profiles are easier handle from same location.

Both current APBx versions works well for me, but APBU seems to be better for short jobs like Refine/Gathering just because APBI can have some Start up errors. Havent seen "Timeouts" because automation do restarts, xD .

[zheeth]

I still need to see logs. Multiple logs.

19:11:51: Logging in.
19:12:03: Waiting for Character Select to load...
19:12:03: Switching to character [name]
19:12:07: Checking slot 1. /Point of disconnecting from the internet
19:12:16: Slot 1 is Free. Starting new task. /Gray screen halt

https://i.imgur.com/OkJstRL.png

19:18:18: Logging in. /dc point
19:18:32: Waiting for Character Select to load... /gray screen point
19:18:44: Character Selection loading timed out. Retry 1...

https://i.imgur.com/jmB0oBV.png

19:24:33: Logging in.
19:24:56: Waiting for Character Select to load...
19:24:56: Switching to character [name]
19:25:00: Checking slot 1.
19:25:09: Slot 1 is Free. Starting new task. /dc point
19:25:32: New task started. /there was a gray screen until a connection was made again
19:25:32: Checking slot 2.
19:25:33: Slot 2 is Finished. Collecting Reward.
19:26:22: Slot 2 is Free.
19:26:31: Starting a new task on slot 2. /dc point
19:27:26: New task started. /a gray screen until reconnection
19:27:26: Checking slot 3.
19:27:27: Slot 3 is Finished. Collecting Reward.
19:27:39: Checking if slot 3 is now Free.
19:27:51: Slot 3 is Free. /dc point
19:28:00: Starting new task on slot 3. /gray halt, for good

https://i.imgur.com/3E0vkYC.png