2/6/2012 The type initializer for 'Styx.Helpers.PVPSettings' threw an exception.

[likeabossdj]

Last night I was using HB to farm Lovely Charms and all was well, and I noticed this morning that I was DC'd, and when I tried to restart HB after authenticating/logging in and attaching itself it immediately says it has encountered a problem: 'Styx.Helpers.PVPSettings' threw an exception. Did the hotfix/stealth patch today have anything to do with it or is the problem on my end?

EDIT: Forgot to mention occasionally WoW crashes along with HB when trying to start it, not sure if this makes a difference or not.
EDIT 2: HB is working with another toon. Seems like the problem may be with my hunter. Still not positive though.
EDIT 3: HB is now causing all instances of WoW to crash regardless of the character I'm logged on.

Sorry if I'm asking about this the wrong way, have been using HB for probably a year but never really post on the forums. I appreciate the help.

 

[likeabossdj]

Anyone having this issue as well? Or is there something obviously wrong that I'm doing?

 

[sadistlex]

That error means that your settings are corrupted.
Delete pvpsettings_<yourcharname>.xml from your settings folder. When you restart HB, you may see another error, now for Levelbotsettings, delete levelbotsettings_<yourcharname>.xml then. Deleting settings files obviously resets your settings, so you will have to set them again.

P.S. If doing this solved the problem, but after a while, this error showed up again, you can delete them once more, then set your settings, and after that, make these files "read only". That will prevent them from corrupting again. You wont be able to make any changes though, until you remove "read only" attribute.

 

[CodenameG]

That error means that your settings are corrupted.
Delete pvpsettings_<yourcharname>.xml from your settings folder. When you restart HB, you may see another error, now for Levelbotsettings, delete levelbotsettings_<yourcharname>.xml then. Deleting settings files obviously resets your settings, so you will have to set them again.

P.S. If doing this solved the problem, but after a while, this error showed up again, you can delete them once more, then set your settings, and after that, make these files "read only". That will prevent them from corrupting again. You wont be able to make any changes though, until you remove "read only" attribute.

try this, it should work for you.

 

[likeabossdj]

That error means that your settings are corrupted.
Delete pvpsettings_<yourcharname>.xml from your settings folder. When you restart HB, you may see another error, now for Levelbotsettings, delete levelbotsettings_<yourcharname>.xml then. Deleting settings files obviously resets your settings, so you will have to set them again.

P.S. If doing this solved the problem, but after a while, this error showed up again, you can delete them once more, then set your settings, and after that, make these files "read only". That will prevent them from corrupting again. You wont be able to make any changes though, until you remove "read only" attribute.

Very helpful response, thank you very much. I deleted both pvpsettings_<yourcharname>.xml and levelbotsettings_<yourcharname>.xml, but I still get the error for some reason. Is it possible that I need to delete other settings, such as Bgbot or Character settings?

 

[sadistlex]

Very helpful response, thank you very much. I deleted both pvpsettings_<yourcharname>.xml and levelbotsettings_<yourcharname>.xml, but I still get the error for some reason. Is it possible that I need to delete other settings, such as Bgbot or Character settings?

Yes, it basicly says which settings file you need to delete. You can always delete the whole Settings folder if this problem persists. I would make a backup of your settings folder before deleting, just in case.

 

[likeabossdj]

Deleting the Settings folder seems to have cleared the problem up. Thanks