A Workaround for Dungeon Crashes.

Hail, comrades!  Over the weekend, as we endeavor to learn our new powers, many of us have experienced a great number of glitches and bugs.  Most of these can be attributed to personal settings and UI mods, such as addons, but there are a few others that are in fact server side.  While most of these Actual bugs are cosmetic and non-gamebreaking, this one in particular is an exception.
     Luckily, while the Makers scramble to correct this issue, which will likely happen by next maintenance, our intrepid community has devised a workaround that does seem successful.  
     If you find that your game keeps crashing inside of instances, including during the Headless Horseman event, this is most likely caused by this known issue, and is being called the Cogwheel Bug.  Basically, anytime there is a usable object inside an instance, you'll see the familiar cogwheel.  This glitch causes the game to crash whenever you do.  
    As frustrating as this can be, there is a relatively simple workaround that, while it may take a few minutes to write, is definitely worth the multiple restarts.
 What is required is that you turn all tooltips off.  
     In order to do this, you will need to bring up your macro window, and create 2 macro buttons; 1 to turn off all tooltips, and one to turn them back on.  They are written as follows:



Turn Off Tooltips:
/script GameTooltip.Temphide = function() GameTooltip:Hide() end; GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Temphide);


Turn On Tooltips:
/script GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Show);



     Both scripts are written as 1 line each, with no breaks.  Mount these buttons somewhere on your action bars, and click them whenever you're entering an instance, or need to use an object that has a cogwheel.  You can tell it's working when you mouse over something, including spells and abilities, and No tooltip information comes up.  To see Tool Tips again, click your Turn On button.  
     
     If you have any questions, feel free to contact me either in game or in email. Good luck, comrades!  May this aid you until the hotfix comes!


~Ogami, High Chieftain of the Shades of the Rising Sun