HELP - Random empty icons showing up on my UI

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I’m having these random empty icons appearing on my UI all around my screen.

Example:

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They seem appear as soon as I apply a buff to a raid or party member (spells like renewing mists, enveloping mist, etc), and disappear when the buff expires.

When I /reload they stop appearing, but then it will randomly start again later.

I suspect that it may be related to VuhDo, as that’s what I use as my raid/party frames, but I can’t be sure. I also run a few other addons that interact with buff icons:

  • VuhDo
  • Pitbull
  • Plater
  • Masque
  • Weak Auras

Its very hard to narrow down but turning addons off one at a time because a /reload temporarily fixes the issue. And I have to wait until it randomly starts again.

Anyone else experience this or know what could be causing these empty icons to appear?

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Type /fstack and place your mouse over the frames. See if the information in the tooltip that pops up gives information that might tell you what addon it is.

/fstack again to turn the trace off.

3

Just tried that.

Strangely they arn’t being picked up by /fstack at all. When I mouse over them, its like they arn’t even there.

4

What does the toolip say? SS maybe?

If they’re not being highlightd and tooltipped by fstack, I can only imagine they’re some sort of overlay comming from and external program.

5

They are not being picked up by /fstack tooltop.

I 90% sure its something with Vuhdo. They only appear when Buffs being tracked by VuhDo are active on my raid frames.

6

A bit ambiguous.

Is fstack showing the tooltip and highlighting the frames or does the mouse pass over them with no highlighting and/or tooltip or, if there is a highlighted area larger than the frames, does the frame stack tooltp alter (list more/less regions) when the mouse moves in/out of the prolem area?

It’s the different between determining if the “frames” were created by the game UI or not (if not then it’s not an addon).

7

Could try their discord https://discord.gg/57en44E

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Sorry Ill try to be more descriptive.

  • When I’m not mousing over any particular item on them UI, the entire screen is highlighted in green and I see a tooltip.
  • When I mouse over these mystery icons, nothing changes from the state mentioned above.
  • When I mouse over any other element (action bar, minimap, raid frame, etc) the element highlights and the tooltip updates.

I would take some screenshots but, the problem is intermittent and It isn’t happening right now. Still unsure what game state triggers it.

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That’s why I’m thinking it may not be an addon but rather something external to the game. fstack should list everything UI/addon related that is on-screen, Shown and rendered via the addon API.

Elvenbane’s suggestion is certainly a place to start though if you’re not prepared to just turn off all your addons long enough to prove me wrong… which is always a possability :wink:.