1017 Error that makes no sense!

[Tuppy]

So, It appears EQ prefers to alternate which days it wants to 1017 error. First day I played no problem, next day 1017, Yesterday np, Today 1017.... I can log onto P99 red server, but not blue. Nothing has changed from any of the days as to why I receive the error. When it comes to posting information on my computer I'm clueless.

Any idea why it works one day and the very next stops working when nothing changed?

[Tuppy]

I guess if that's the case I need to play red and l2pvp lol

[mtb tripper]

basically

[Tuppy]

:), Back to original issue, can anyone think of a fix for this issue. It's quiet annoying not being able to level up.

[Lyra]

Overclocked

From the FAQ:

****UPDATE FOR ERROR 1017****
Someone who was experiencing this issue discovered it was a problem with their hardware. Specifically, it was an issue with their motherboard. This may seem strange, but it only further reinforces a couple things:
Make sure EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF HARDWARE has a current driver
More info is needed for people who have error 1017's - ie, need more people hardware specs.

That being said, here is the solution this person found, verbatim:
Quote:
Originally Posted by AC888
My Asus M5A97 R2.0 mobo allows me to overclock it with the click of a button through the BIOS. What had happened was I clicked the High Performance button so that it would slightly tweat with the voltages to overclock my CPU by about 300MHz and RAM by about 150MHz. My CPU can be overclocked to a further extend this is just a well known safe setting that Asus has for the clock boost. I never thought it would affect my ability to connect but the issue happened around the same time I did this and it immediately ended after the BIOs settings were returned to default.

If someone could shed light on this then please do tell, but I don't recommended overclocking your CPU even using manufacturer's settings.
I suspect people having error 1017 are having similar issues to this. I very strongly recommend *not* overclocking anything on your computer in order to play EQ. It seems to cause a ton of problems that are very easily fixed by just resetting everything to default. Basically, if you're getting weird errors or otherwise having problems running EQ, please try to turn off any overclocking you currently have turned on. This has fixed problems for more than one person.

[Tuppy]

Thank you Lyra, I have been reading up on these posts you reference. Really stupid question, how do I overclock or "revert" it back to normal speed. I have no idea how it would become overclocked in the first place.

[Lyra]

Sometimes the overclock is not obvious, as in this example:

I went in and did some investigative research on what each option did. I had clicked "performance" but that didn't chance my clock speed. There was a setting that was on Manual instead of DOCP and once I changed it I saw the target clock speed drop to 4000Ghz from 4300Ghz

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108797

[Tuppy]

Any chance you could dummy walk me through to restore such a setting? Computers are like Arabic to me :(

[Lyra]

Any chance you could dummy walk me through to restore such a setting? Computers are like Arabic to me :(


I can't, but I imagine someone here will.

If you don't have any luck by tonight, we can trouble shoot over ventrilo. I'll try to pull a techie in with us.

[Lyra]

Is your processor AMD?

Don't be intimidated if you don't understand.

You can click Start, then Run and type dxdiag. An information box will pop up and it will say Processor: *example* Intel or AMD blah blah

You don't really need to understand, you just need to be able to follow directions.

[Tuppy]

I just tried to restore my system to yesterday (when eq worked). hopefully this will work, im in europe right now so I will keep trying its 1900 right now :)

[Tuppy]

AMD Athlon II P360 Dual-Core Processor (2CPU's) 2.3ghz

Restoring computer didn't work.

[Lyra]

Are you using WINeq2?

Step 4 - Optional WinEQ
Many users experience problems with proper CPU/Core Utilization or crashing which can be fixed by using WinEQ2. You can download this program from Lavishsoft.

I don't know if it will fix this though. I'm pretty sure the processor is overclocked. I'm going to read about your processor when I have a few minutes.

[Tuppy]

I'm using the all in one program on the site, should I give EQwin2 a go? I have no idea how my computer is going from operation one day, and than it's not working the next, it's like it alternates which dates it wants to overclock smh lol, not to mention P99 Red works perfectly fine, but blue is a no go... it hates my pve!

[Lyra]

I say yes on WinEQ2. It has solved many a problems!

It's a free download, so make sure you are clicking the right things.

[Tuppy]

Yeah WinEQ2, is also a no go same problem.

[Lyra]

Do you have Windows 7?

[Tuppy]

Yes ma'am I do

[Lyra]

Start reading here: http://compreviews.about.com/cs/pchardwarebasics/a/aaBIOS.htm

CPU Clock

The very first setting that needs to be made in the BIOS is to adjust the motherboard to utilizing the proper clock settings for the CPU installed in the computer. Most modern BIOS vendors can detect the type of CPU and automatically set the proper timings. Refer to the documentation from the CPU and motherboard vendor for the proper settings.

The CPU speed is comprised of two numbers, a bus speed and a multiplier. The bus speed is the tricky part because vendors may have this setting done either at the natural clock rate or at the enhanced clock rate. The natural front side bus is the more common of the two. The multiplier is then used to determine the final clock speed based on the bus speed of the processor. Set this to the appropriate multiple for the final clock speed of the processor.

For an example, if you have an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ processor that has a CPU speed of 1.82GHz clock, the proper settings for the BIOS would be a bus speed of 166MHz and a multiplier of 11. (166MHz x 11 = 1.826 GHz)

Pretty sure you are going to need to look at your BIOS to fix this. Don't change anything yet.

When/IF you do change anything, you are going to want to make notes of before/after so anything can be changed back.

[Tuppy]

This is quite frustrating, now idea why P99 Red works, and why my computer works with blue every other day blah.

[Gadwen]

Resetting the bios should be very simple if you haven't figured it out already. Boot it up, get into bios, there's always an option to restore defaults. if you can't find it, check to see if you have a cmos jumper that will clear it. If all else fails unplug the computer and pull out the motherboards battery, let it sit for 30 seconds and pop it back and and boot it up.

I'm running a real nice overclock on my AMD processor, never had any problems with EQ. If it were a hardware issue I'm really not sure how it would work with PvP and not the real server.

[Furinex]

I had an issue a while back. I was overclocking from 4.2ghz to 5ghz and I could NOT connect to the server for the life of me with that PC. I tried about a million things to get it to work and.. nothing. Then I thought, why not, let me just stock my overclock and try it. What do ya know, im in and never had a problem again. It was kind of stupid in retrospect, now that I think about it. 4-5ghz? lol I didnt notice the difference.

[Gadwen]

I had an issue a while back. I was overclocking from 4.2ghz to 5ghz and I could NOT connect to the server for the life of me with that PC. I tried about a million things to get it to work and.. nothing. Then I thought, why not, let me just stock my overclock and try it. What do ya know, im in and never had a problem again. It was kind of stupid in retrospect, now that I think about it. 4-5ghz? lol I didnt notice the difference.

I can see how OCing could cause a strange problem like this, but its the fact that he can only get into one of the servers that has me scratching my head.

[Tuppy]

Yeah I have been scratching my head all day, but watch tomorrow it will work like nothing was wrong with it, like yesterday it was perfect, the day before I had the problem I'm having now, and the first day I played no issues. It's like EQ takes every other day off hah

[falkun]

That's crazy to suspect an overclock. I've got my 3570k running from its stock 3.4GHz up to 4.2 or 4.3GHz without any problems, but then I am running on Ubuntu instead of Windows.

Anyways, the first hit on google for the Athlon II P360 is notebookcheck.net. Are you running a desktop or laptop? If you are running a laptop, I strongly advise you do not overclock, especially if you do not know how to reset the bios as you claim in this thread. However, if you do not know how to reset your bios, you likely aren't overclocking in the first place and we're therefore going down the wrong path with this discussion anyways.

To enter your bios, turn your computer completely off, and then turn it back on. There should be some text that shows up on your screen when you initially turn on the computer, and it should tell you to press a button to enter the BIOS, for my motherboard its F2. If you don't press the button in time on the first boot, reboot your computer and mash that button until you get into the bios. For more detailed instructions on how to reset your bios (assuming you can't figure it out by browsing the bios menu on your own), google your laptop's make and model and the word "bios". You should find instructions for modifying and navigating your bios from those instructions.

[Lyra]

Ok, so what if the factory setting is an overclock? Wouldn't the resetting the bios just set up the overclock?

[falkun]

Ok, so what if the factory setting is an overclock? Wouldn't the resetting the bios just set up the overclock?

I doubt its an overclock. No offense, but the P360 is not a high-end mobile chip. Not a single vendor would put that thing into a laptop designed (read: factory set) to overclock. @OP: Whats the make/model of the laptop you are utilizing?

He shouldn't have to reset the bios, but while we're here and the discussion is geared this way, lets just check it off the list to prove its unrelated.

[Tuppy]

Yeah, I have never overclocked it personally, it's all default settings on the laptop. Soon enough i'll be back in the states and can try from my desktop. It just frustrates me beyond belief, working one day and the next 1017. Maybe it's my computer fighting the addiction I use to have growing up for this game lol! I think it's the start of the rise of the machines! DUN dun DUUUUN

[Tuppy]

Umm It's a Dell, got it a couple years ago, from Best Buy. Was only really suppose to be used for AIM and Skype to talk to my wife while deployed. So wasn't expecting much as far as performance from this. I know it runs EQ though cause it runs np when it wants to run the real server.

[Tuppy]

Omfg, I'm going to punch my flipping computer. I have don't nothing NOTHING to it.... It's loading! SMH nice all day wasted and its now 1037pm! growl! Tuppy in game smh

[Lyra]

its now 1037pm! growl!

Well another day passed and you're closer to coming home.

[Tuppy]

Thank you all for your help I really appreciate the time you all took to look into my issue! I'll see you on Tuppy Bard Powa :) I hope its the right class lol

[Thulack]

How about just never logging out? :)

[mtb tripper]

Are you using satellite internet by chance?

[Tuppy]

Not Sat, but building wifi

[mtb tripper]

When I had satellite internet for about a month, I always got 1017 error, could never play due the fact that packages or something rather weren't being sent often enough or something along those lines

[enr4ged]

Have you installed the AMD Dual core optimizer program? It was designed specifically to help out on games like EQ that don't utilize the processor correctly.

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dynamicDetails.aspx?ListID=c5cd2c08-1432-4756-aafa-4d9dc646342f&ItemID=153&lang=us/URL]

For windows XP by the way.

[Khaleesi]

Why are we focusing on this being a hardware issue and not a network issue? ; especially given the symptom of having access to red server and not blue.

-Can you connect to other EQ EMU servers?
-Have you done any trace routing on the blue server IP?
-Compared packets when connected to red and comparing them to the the attempts at blue which end up failing?
-Can you hardwire the connection?



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[falkun]

Was only really suppose to be used for AIM and Skype to talk to my wife while deployed.

Not Sat, but building wifi

If you are deployed and staying on base, you are likely utilizing a satellite connection to your home nation. Governments tend to like having secure connections with their military outposts. This bandwidth should be controlled so most is used for official communications while a small portion is designated for personal use. The wifi you are using in your barracks would be on the personal use portion, and its likely stretched pretty thin.

A good person to ask about EQ while deployed would be Ambrotos, who is also deployed (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=86302).

There is a good chance there is nothing you can do about the 1017. 1017 is basically stating the heartbeat packets (or whatever they are called) between the server and client aren't functioning properly. This could be due to anything from dual-core processors (http://www.thesafehouse.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25756) to unreliable internet connections (satellite). You may attempt to improve the reliability of your connection by taking out as many factors as you can control (read: swap from wifi to hard-wire (ethernet) connection). But there is also the chance you are simply SOL and not in a 'cats on the moon' kind of way.

[Tuppy]

Yeah, I'm thinking it's the barracks connection. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Nothing I can do. damn you rota!

[Tuppy]

This problem only happens when I try to play P99. No other server has the error come up. hmm.

[falkun]

What do you mean no other server? Remember that each server has different client-server communications because most servers were created by different people. The different servers speak with different clients (i.e.: P99 only works with Titanium). I wish I could help you more, the only advice I can offer is do what you can to minimize lag induced by the barracks internet.