Crashing during kite

[nalkin]

This happens to me quite a few times on my bard. I have maybe 15+ mobs kiting in SK and in the middle of the kite my client will just crash. I tried turning down settings but it doesn't seem to help. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't... any suggestions?

[jbs89]

Try fighting blue con mobs one at a time face to face ;)

Prob need more RAM imo

[nalkin]

I have 4gbs, my computer is pretty fast and should be plenty fast for running eq classic.

[Kava]

It happens to me with my Druid, only kiting one mob. Probably a bug, but I have yet to find a way to reproduce it...

[Riffu]

Aye i get the same intermittently kiting with my Druid - there was a post a while back on the issue and zoning before starting a kiting session was recommended by someone - but i still get the issue on and off when doing that.

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

Happened to me as well.. a few times

[ssyrax]

Also used to have this problem when I would kite with my druid. Rather frustrating as it results in death far too often.

[Mcbard]

Next time it happens please check your debug file and let me know if we are getting the same issue, I suspect we may be.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20110

[Francois]

No fix for this yet eh? Just crashed while swarm kiting.

[Francois]

7 deaths in the my last 11 pulls due to this. Only happens when I have a big swarm, so I have to recreate the situation over and over to see if I've fixed it or not.

I see these lines in every log file.

D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture blueglobesp501.dds for particle system.
D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture Jellyfisha.dds for particle system.
D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture fishd.dds for particle system.

Also, have 3 logs to pick through if anyone is interested.

[Mcbard]

Alright, so I'm not the only one.. perhaps it is time to make this a bug?

[warrioman]

This is a known bug I'm pretty sure. If you may notice, the crash usually happen when yo are strafing/panning camera while you run or while you are moving in a diagonal direction (both of which are done while kiting)

[Pescador]

been a problem for a long, long time:

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5451 (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5451)

[Francois]

Between all the posts I've read on this there's a couple things I've noticed...

Many people have a Nvidia Geforce 8800 (Including me)

The Majority of the crashes occurred in one of the Karanas

Many people claim to be pushing multiple keys when it happens

[Mcbard]

been a problem for a long, long time:

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5451 (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5451)

Ahh, thanks for finding that for me! :)

[Francois]

Any updates on this? I've tried everything that everyone's mentioned.

[Francois]

So, I finally figured out what works for me.

I installed different graphics card drivers from...
http://www.tweakforce.com

Edit - Spoke too soon, not completely fixed, but less crashes overall

[Dapper]

I used to have all sorts of issues with crashes. I use the free version of WinEQ2 from Lavishsoft when I play, and while your limited to playing in a window, it never crashes on me.

[warrioman]

So, I finally figured out what works for me.

I installed different graphics card drivers from...
http://www.tweakforce.com

Edit - Spoke too soon, not completely fixed, but less crashes overall

Could be random. I've gone from periods where I crash multiple times in a night to never crashing for weeks straight. No change in drivers. I have a nvidia mobile 7950 GTX

[nalkin]

Next time it happens please check your debug file and let me know if we are getting the same issue, I suspect we may be.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20110

what debug file? Just happened to me (with every setting turned down as far as it could go, so that is ruled out now)

[Mcbard]

There should be a Logs folder in your everquest directory.. there is a debug.txt inside of it.

[nalkin]

Here is the error I got when I crashed:

2010-11-12 19:06:06 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture fishd.dds for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:06 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture Jellyfisha.dds for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:06 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture blueglobesp501.dds for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:06 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture blueglobesp501.dds for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:17 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_blsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:20 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_blsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:20 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_whsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:20 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_whsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:06:39 Item done, MSG_WEATHER_EVENT received.
2010-11-12 19:06:39
2010-11-12 19:06:52 Item done, MSG_WEATHER_EVENT received.
2010-11-12 19:06:52
2010-11-12 19:07:49 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:07:49 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc3.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:07:49 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc3.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:45 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:45 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:45 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture speld2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:47 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:47 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture spelc2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:48 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture speld2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:48 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture speld2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:48 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture speld2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:48 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture speld2.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:56 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_blsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:56 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_blsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:56 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_blsp501.tga for particle system.
2010-11-12 19:09:56 D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx() failed to create texture flare_blsp501.tga for particle system.


Also it seems that zoning is helping for me, cause the 2 times ive crashed have been when I didn't zone after logging in.

[Lexous]

I started kiting around 8-12 mobs when I hit level 18 on my bard and didn't have a crash until two days later when I was almost level 20. So had pretty much 2 full levels and within one hour I crashed 3 times (3 out of 6 kites). Had between 13-15 mobs at the time. Nothing else had changed.