Constantly desyncing

[jrizz242]

While the timer often gets the tick of my weapon wrong, its most noticeable at olm so I think it might e related to moving and attack in the same tick but often while using the dragon hunter lance it will be attacking on the correct tick, which for me is after the 1 tick since I have the plugin counting down, but then drift to attacking on the 1, and then after a while of hitting olm it will drift even further to me attacking on the 2. The plugin at that point usually corrects itself to attacking on 0 after a few hits of that. But, I can never trust what the plugin says because of the random and frequent desyncing. I can try and provide a video if you want.

A hotkey would be nice to have for when this happens in other places of the game but at olm specifically the problem is too extreme and common for that to be a viable fix

[Lexer747]

I think this is a known issue of just how the detection of an "attack" works. Feel free to add reproduction steps to #64 which is the issue we're using to track "de-sync" from switching weapons.

If it's drifting at Olm in particular a video would be helpful.

[Lexer747]

Woah that video is very helpful thanks, I'm very much not sure what's causing that issue this isn't like #64 in that no switching was performed which is normally what causes de-sync like that. I wonder if it's something olm/lance specific ...

[Lexer747]

Hmm I just did an olm with lance and had no issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcheCENEQ2s

If anyone can help with identifying what might be causing this that would be great because I cant seem to reproduce the problem.

[jrizz242]

Ya i just watched your video, we are doing a lot of the same kind of attacks but i desynch multiple times per melee hand. I tried recreating it at gemstone crab and it took me 30 minutes of strafing and attacking in all sorts of patterns and i only got it to trigger 3 times. My best guess is that it has something to do with olm being a wall boss to the east and west which means when i do drag into a hit its dragging me north/south. I cannot recreate that at gem crab because drag hits always prio east/west movements. Maybe something about olm being a east west wall boss or how olm is coded is doing it but that does not explain why it happens to me and not you.
Maybe theres a weird conflict with one of my other plugins causing this but I have no idea how other plugins would interact with this one.

[Lexer747]

Yeah could be the wall dragging messing with something, but the first hit which "goes wrong" is at 0:39 in your video and your character is standing still for that attack! Plus Olm isn't even hitting you with an attack or something (normally animations is what causes the problem). That straight up looks like the inventory manager thinks your lance is 5 ticks attack speed (we use the runelite API return itemManager.getItemStats(weaponId) to get that value) which is extra strange.

I'm might add some debug type logging in a future release which you could run and send back which might help diagnosing the issue but for now accept my apologies 😅.

[jrizz242]

I would be more than happy to enable debugging or provide more examples if it would help in the future. Thanks for everything.

[obfuscatedosrs]

Hmm I just did an olm with lance and had no issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcheCENEQ2s

If anyone can help with identifying what might be causing this that would be great because I cant seem to reproduce the problem.

I think part of this is that the plugin doesn’t reset after each attack. It used to happen when the spell weapon timers were off - ahrim staff cast would count down from 6 instead of 5, then if I bolted on 1 it’d go back up to 6. And if I cast again it’d be 7.

Instead I suppose the timer should reset each time so errors don’t compound. But of course it doesn’t directly fix the first cycle

[Lexer747]

I think part of this is that the plugin doesn’t reset after each attack. It used to happen when the spell weapon timers were off - ahrim staff cast would count down from 6 instead of 5, then if I bolted on 1 it’d go back up to 6. And if I cast again it’d be 7.

Instead I suppose the timer should reset each time so errors don’t compound. But of course it doesn’t directly fix the first cycle

The plugin does reset after it reaches 0 it just that bad data in means bad data out, if the plugin thinks that the lance if 5 tick then it hasn't really made an "error". I do agree that it might be better if the plugin detects an attack animation then it would restart the counter, but it has tradeoffs:

• keeping animation data up to date is brittle
• things like gargoyles which re-use the animation for smashing would look janky
• any speed changers which aren't captured by variable speed would also be more janky (think yama, etc)

[obfuscatedosrs]

Hmm good point. I’ll see if I can come up with something more concrete

[jrizz242]

Update. I still cant figure out how to fix the desynching. Ive noticed it happening with basically every weapon and I have no idea how to stop it. Has anyone encountered and solved something similar yet?

[jrizz242]

@Lexer747 I did some more investigating after a session at whisperer where the bug was happening a lot while using the shadow. So I went to seagulls and i started splashing and for about 30 minutes i could not get it to happen. i brought potions because i thought the eating animation might have been the culprit and i brought a weapon swap with a different attack speed because idk i was grasping at straws. but then when i was doing a habit of mine of holding a hotkey i noticed the first desync of the session. It turns out i can very consistently get the issue to happen by spamming my hotkeys or just long pressing them, which if that really is the cause it makes alot of sense why i noticed the issue most at olm, i am constantly pressing my hotkeys during that whole fight.
im not sure if maybe the specific hotkeys i use could be at fault or what. or if im totally off base here.
https://youtu.be/7KphLPfEiAY

edit: i disabled the key remapping plugin and was still able to very consistently duplicate the bug. by using the f keys.

[jrizz242]

New update. i am unable to replicate the desync when i change my game client layout to resizable - classic layout or fixed classic layout. It is only in resizeable modern layout that i am able to force a desynch