Does your chat window get messed up sometimes?

Bukuro Girl

Bukuro Girl

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Tokyo Girls

W/R

Every once in a while my chat window starts acting real strange

All the posts that come into it appear at the top of the chat window screen. So I can't read them. So I scroll up to read them and then no new messages come into the screen. I have to scroll down to read the later messages.

This only happens when local is on. Guild chat or alliance works ok. Put local back on and all the messages go straight back up to the top.

Does anyone else get this? Any way to solve it?

King Kong

King Kong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bukuro Girl
Every once in a while my chat window starts acting real strange

All the posts that come into it appear at the top of the chat window screen. So I can't read them. So I scroll up to read them and then no new messages come into the screen. I have to scroll down to read the later messages.

This only happens when local is on. Guild chat or alliance works ok. Put local back on and all the messages go straight back up to the top.

Does anyone else get this? Any way to solve it?
ive been having that happen since i started playing last xmas.

outkast7053

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Cookies They Smunch [YUMM]

N/Mo

Yeah I've gotten it a few times. I usually just log out and back in to fix it.

exiled mat

exiled mat

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

The netherlands > friesland > balk

[JAMM] Justified Ancients of Moo Moo

E/Me

I also have this problem sometimes...
It usualy appears after i rezone to a busy district, but sometimes it appears out of nothing...
with those "white rules" you don't have much space left to read those messages

Solution: restart Guild Wars

Tact

Tact

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

Voice of the Darkness

I had it once or twice. I just logged out and in to fix it.

Agyar

Agyar

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

AUSSIE TROLLING CREW - CAPSLOCK CONSULTANT

[Dong]

Mo/

It's strange, the pushing up of text appears to only occur when the chat window is "maximised", ie with it's background and check boxes displayed. If you revert it to it's semi-hidden state, the text returns to the correct location.

Dunno what causes it exactely, but I agree it seems to only happen in local chat and it happens over time. You'll see it creeping up a line or two at a time.

P!zz@

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

I think it happens when someone said a sentence that fits exactly into one of the chat-box lines. No new line, only one line that has exactly the length of your chat box. Depends on the size of your box, though.

But I'm not sure, thats just what I noticed...

gabazieute

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

R/Mo

I've it sometimes too.
It seems to occurs if I start to play a bit too much with the scroll bar to look back for something

Sekkira

Sekkira

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Canberra, AU

Happens to me randomly too. Sometimes occurs with local or with other chat thingies.

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by gabazieute
I've it sometimes too.
It seems to occurs if I start to play a bit too much with the scroll bar to look back for something
That what I do which causes it to happen. But it does happen randomally. Its annoying and a long outstanding bug. Not sure if and when A.net will ever fix it.

Bankai

Bankai

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Bubblegum Dragons

Mo/E

Yes, sometimes I have white lines that slowly move up. It's mainly in busy districts. Sometimes it disappears after zoning a few times. Sometimes it gets worse.

meneer123

meneer123

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

X-Universe [XU]

I also have seen this quite a lot. Most of the time the trade channel is the one causing it and sometimes the local. It can only really be fixed by re-logging: really annoying.

I have the feeling it also disappears sometimes in really busy districts after a while, maybe when the lines corrupting your chat disappear from the log?

CyberMesh0

CyberMesh0

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Charter Vanguard [CV]

N/Me

I've been playing for 18 months and it's been there since the beginning. Less lately though.

Eviance

Eviance

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Eh I forget... o_O

Biscuit of Dewm [MEEP]

R/

It get's worse when you scroll up and back down... Typically this happens to me when I am trying to sell or buy something... It drives me nuts! Usually I just give up and turn off local - trade chat is still scrolled up but not as much as local would have it. It either rights itself after a few zones or a quick log out does the trick. I've been hoping that one day someone would fix it, as its not at the top of the OMG FIX IT NOW list I haven't said much - but it would be nice if it was eventually fixed.

mr_groovy

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

Mostly in Kamadan dist 1, when lot's of wts are there :S. Hard to track everything. Hope it get's fixed sometime. Rather have an AI update though ^^.

Bukuro Girl

Bukuro Girl

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Tokyo Girls

W/R

Oh, Okay.... Good it's just not me.

Bad... it happens quite a bit to a lot of people.

Yeah, I find that logging out fixes the problem, but often when I get this problem then I get the dreaded fixing GW archive screen. And that takes about 10 min or so.

OHHHHhhh. In a perfect world.........

Stemnin

Stemnin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/Me

It's the worst bug ever!

jk, but it's on my list of annoying guild wars bugs, which it's the only one listed that hasn't been fixed..

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

The only way to fix it is to keep local off. It's filled with crap anyway, noobs calling others noob or nub (which is really stupid, who came up with that anyway?).

Antheus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

It happens sometimes in trade districts, either due to use of some weird characters, or some other bug which occurs simply because there's so much spam.

The reason why it doesn't disapear after zoning, is because all text, even the one hidden, is processed in chat window. So hiding trade chat doesn't remove the offending text, and causes the bug.

Redundant empty lines will disapear once the text/line/character(?) has been pushed out of chat history. So, simply put, when those 100, 200(?) lines have been typed after the line causing the bug.

Relogging solves the problem, since it flushes chat history.

ForgeWhelp

ForgeWhelp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

TGW

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Ryker
The only way to fix it is to keep local off. It's filled with crap anyway, noobs calling others noob or nub (which is really stupid, who came up with that anyway?).
Actually I've had it happen to either local or trade. Where if I click one or the other off then it looks fine....

Ebony Shadowheart

Ebony Shadowheart

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

USA

SSW

E/

I've started having this happen to me in the last several weeks. It will just do it out of the blue for some reason. No idea what causes it, but as someone else stated, it only seems to happen when I have the chat window open. I just minimize it and eventually it goes back to normal. I don't talk a whole lot since I usually run with hench and/or with my fiance; thus I don't really use it.

Enchanted Warrior

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/Mo

This needs fixing, it's major annoying.

LicensedLuny

Badly Influenced

Join Date: Dec 2005

Buying Humps! (No kidding! Check my buy thread)

Hello Kitty Krewe [HKK] Forever!-ish

Yeah, I've seen it too. Either white lines, or the chat not filling up the bottom section of the chat log.

I've only ever seen it when I was both standing in a busy town like LA 1 and had my chat window set fairly large in my interface settings. I could never fix it with anything short of relogging.

natuxatu

natuxatu

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Wisconsin

Rt/Mo

It happens to me all the time.. I'd like for this to be fixed but I've gotten so used to it by now it's almost second nature.