Advanced Combat Tracker -- FAQ

Question: What should I check when ACT isn't recording combat?

The first thing to check is to see if your game in question is actually writing to a log file. If ACT's title bar does not say "Log Active" in it, you may have the wrong log file opened or the game is not actually writing to that(or any) file.

Make sure that you have a parsing plugin enabled for your specific game and no other parsing plugins are enabled. Parsing plugins do not play well with each other. ACT will usually warn you on startup if it thinks you have absolutely no parsing plugins enabled, but it cannot detect if you have the wrong one.

Question: Is ACT a 'DPS Meter'?

Question: How do I paste combat data into group chat?

Question: What are the EQ2 /slash commands?

Question: How do I know if ACT is reading my logs?

Question: What is the difference between 'DPS' and 'EncDPS'? (Or 'CharDPS')

Question: Are there any hidden options/features?

Question: When pasting a parse export from the clipboard, it gets cut off if there are too many players...

Question: Can ACT have more than one configuration? (Almost required for multiple game support)

Question: What should I check when ACT isn't recording combat?

Question: Where can I find ACT's error log or configuration files?

Question: ACT says my EQ2 log is too old or "Idle" all the time and nothing updates...

Question: I don't want ACT to run 64-bit, how can I change this?