[Tool] Grim Dawn Item Assistant

[Eldoxar]

Hi Slipperypete,

I am coming back to GD after a year, and I needed to reinstall windows during that time (from Win7 to Win10, actually). I saved my standard GD files, reinstalled the game and IA is working (I did not reinstall it), but there are just no items.
I don’t remember anything specific where I saved the data. Can I find my items somehow, or were they stored in a standard windows user folder (i.e. they are gone)?

Thanks in advance!

[slipperypete]

%appdata%…\local\EvilSoft\iagd\data

Unless you activated online sync, of course.
Then they’ll be on the old online sync service. (in addition to the now-lost appdata folder)

[Bromantic]

Analyze what the root cause is, try running with the task manager open on a second screen if possible. (CPU, I/O, memory., etc…)

I’d say its normal to notice a ~1-2 second performance degradation inside IA itself while it loots items, but IA should not cause any significant performance issues with GD itself.

Grim Damage suffered from using too much CPU, but I’ve never had reports of IA causing a performance degradation with GD.

However, 20-30 FPS tells me nothing, FPS is not linear.
If it takes you 10 milliseconds to render a frame, you can render 100 frames per second. If you add 1 millisecond, you’re at 90 FPS.
That is a 10% drop.

If it takes you 20 milliseconds to render a frame, you have 50 FPS. If you add ONE millisecond to that (as above), you’re at 47 FPS, that’s less than a 5% drop.

In both cases, all you did was add ONE MILLISECOND, but in one case it was 10%, the other it was 5%.
The reason is that FPS is not a linear calculation, unlike SPF (seconds per frame).
Summarized: If you are playing GD with 3000 FPS, then a 20-30 drop in FPS is absolutely trivial. If you are playing GD with 30 FPS, well… then it’s pretty bad.

I am dropping from 110 Fps to 80 in the Main town, and its also making combat quite laggy because of that performance drop
But the thing is…even after i close GWIA, the issue stays, i need to reboot the game to get back my lost fps
Also nothing is changing performance wise

[Marcuz]

Hello,
My stash got full and I went ahead and installed this tool.
When placing items in the corresponding tab, and after walking away from the stash, I get the following message: “No matching items found”. I’ve lost a few items but that’s OK. It says it’s transferred but I have nothing on the tool screen.

edit
This got sorted out, I just needed to “load database”.

[slipperypete]

I am dropping from 110 Fps to 80 in the Main town, and its also making combat quite laggy because of that performance drop
But the thing is…even after i close GWIA, the issue stays, i need to reboot the game to get back my lost fps
Also nothing is changing performance wise

Gave a shout out on the IA Discord, see if anyone else is suffering from it.
If its a “common” issue I’ll look into reducing the load IA does inside GD.

Only read player position every 30 frames instead of every or such.

[Eldoxar]

Hi Slipperypete

I think I ran into a known issue. I started playing on Hardcore and I put some of my items to the shared stash using IA (only the 1st tab was available at the time). Roughly an hour later I did not find anything in the stash nor in IA, however I purchased a second tab. I did not quit the game in the meantime and I saved the log file of the session.
I tried getting my items back based on the guidlines of „How do i restore a transfer stash? (lost items from tab1 / tab2 for example)" but it just did not work, no items appeared. Is there a Hardcore specific thing about the file structure?

One more thing regarding my earlier post. With my friend we used the Buddy feature so he knows which items I used to have. Is there a (smooth) way of recovering those items by using his data?

Thanks in advance!

[jabberwock]

How does this tool work with patches? Is it okay to just let the game update and then reload the database through the tool?

[slipperypete]

How does this tool work with patches? Is it okay to just let the game update and then reload the database through the tool?

Pretty much.

Worst thing that’ll happen is that IA wont recognize any new items added in the latest patch, and they’ll be named “Unknown item” inside IA.

Will still be just fine when transferred back ingame.

[beserkjay]

I was using this app for a while then got a new computer. Its same version of windows 10 64 bit.

While I was importing my old database my computer blue screened (I was installing some drivers). Now I can’t get the ui to start…I can see it for a second or two in the windows explorer process list then it just dies.

I’ve tried:

• Reinstalling (I am using the current version from your site)
• Deleting it and then reinstalling
• Deleting it and grim dawn and reinstalling.
• Deleting everything from C:/Users/<my user>/Documents/My Games/Grim Dawn (I have backups so I am just trying to get the item assistant running)

I never see any UI, just a brief 1 or two seconds in the process explorer then nothing. I don’t see any logs anywhere in C:/ProgramFiles/GD Item assistant with any clues to why its not starting. I am not currently running any antivirus and i don’t see anything blocked in windows defender.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Figured it out! I had to delete the AppData\Local\EvilSoft directory and reinstall!

[slipperypete]

Glad it worked out =)

[Brynvagn]

I thought I’d try installing this utility today, and got real curious when after the install I was prompted to restart my PC. Usually things like this only occur when a driver is installed or something is registered to start-up with windows. Is this tool doing anything like that? Needless to say it was unexpected.

[slipperypete]

I thought I’d try installing this utility today, and got real curious when after the install I was prompted to restart my PC. Usually things like this only occur when a driver is installed or something is registered to start-up with windows. Is this tool doing anything like that? Needless to say it was unexpected.

IA itself should never ask, as it doesn’t need it.
However, it will also install .net framework, VC++ runtimes etc if they are missing. Those dependencies may ask you to restart.

Either way, probably runs just fine even if you don’t.

[nasa1001]

how to update IA? I have not played the game for couple of months and did not use IA. when I start IA it does not auto update

[slipperypete]

how to update IA? I have not played the game for couple of months and did not use IA. when I start IA it does not auto update

Probably not been any updates to IA for a couple of months

[Xikren]

Hi,

I got an error while importing an export made on another PC.

Any idea on how to solve the problem ?

Thank you

[Brynvagn]

IA itself should never ask, as it doesn’t need it.
However, it will also install .net framework, VC++ runtimes etc if they are missing. Those dependencies may ask you to restart.

Either way, probably runs just fine even if you don’t.

Ah ha, sure enough… checked the App List, sorted by install date, and noticed the VC++ 2013 (x86) and VC++ 2017 (x64) were absolutely installed.

Thank You slipperypete!

[slipperypete]

Hi,

I got an error while importing an export made on another PC.

Any idea on how to solve the problem ?

Thank you

That’s odd… share the export?

[Xikren]

That’s odd… share the export?

There it is.

it’s an export made yesterday after the database was updated with the new version of the game.

[nasa1001]

what does it mean when some items have crossed cloud icon?

[slipperypete]

what does it mean when some items have crossed cloud icon?

It means the items has not been backed up to the cloud. (Online backups)
You may still have your own custom backups to dropbox etc.