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r/wow•
serius

Very strange map bug

Hey guys, i am getting this strange map bug on some of my characters. my map looks like this: http://imgur.com/9rEGx.jpg

It first appeared when i accidentally clicked the little arrow button next to the x on the map. I am running cartographer if that helps, but havent had any problems with it for the past x years...i didnt install any new addons i dont think. The funny thing is, this isnt localised to my computer, i logged on with my brothers box and got the same problem.

Its only on characters where i have clicked the funny arrow [ i did it on a lowbie to double check, sure enough it stuffed the map] so every other character is ok.

Not a huge issue as its not on my mains, just a very strange bug i havent been able to resolve yet

Posted Apr 17, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

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quentinnuk•

I dont think cartographer works after 3.3, I switched to mapster.

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ChiperSoft•

This is it right here. Cartographer 2 is no longer being developed, and Cartographer 3 sucks. Mapster + HandyNotes + Gathermate fills the void quite well.

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seriusOP•

Yeah its not supported, hasnt been updated in quite a while. It was just strange how it was working fine, missclicked a button then errors are popping up everywhere and the map is all screwy

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[deleted]•

Isolate the problem by disabling addons one at a time and update your addons if you need to. Never seen this issue in particular though.

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seriusOP•

That was what i tried first thing, with all addons disabled it seemed to work ok, but the standard blizzard map is shit, i cant live like that. I then deleted addons and WTF folder and downloaded mapster, mapnotes, questhelper, atlas and cromulent [bare bones necessary for questing imo] and again, screwed up map.

Somehow that i dont remember, i got everything to spontaneously work again for my main. I deleted my wow folder and copied across my brothers folder, again same problem, but after doing something it ended up working again for that one character. No idea how to get things working for the other though.

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ThePowerOfGeek•

I had this happening to me a while back too. As I recall it was due to Cartographer not playing well with Carbonite (or maybe not playing well with the new default map features). To fix it I got rid of Cartographer (which always seems to need tweaking to get it working after install anyway).

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dolphinrisky•

I had the exact same issue and couldn't find a resolution. Try downloading Mapster. I liked Cartographer better, but Mapster is pretty close.

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BevansDesign•

Whoa, neat.

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semizero•

It's cartographer.

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seriusOP•

Is there some way in options to disable all the extra blizzard shit like their quest helper, shit they put on the map extra? i suspect those are clashing with something and screwing it up.

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