PC freezing when gated or zoned

[LeonardRenner]

Been playing for a couple month now.. and just today my pc locked up twice...task manager would not even work.. i had to hit reset button on my pc

Is this common ? if not is there something i can do ?

[jadefoot]

Just started happening to me in the last few days too. Game freezes when zoning, pull up Task Manager and when I click that it shoots me back to the frozen screen in game, only option is to do a hard restart.

[MrMudgeon]

I froze whilst gating and had to reboot my pc. Now when i attempt to log into any P99 server i get an "unknown error is preventing you from joining the server" error

[annali]

This started happening to me about a week ago, so I checked Firewall setting and eqgame.exe didn't have an exemption. Did that and fixed it.

[Baler]

I feel like question such as this come up often for newer players. and should be documented somewhere...

the wiki!

[Hotshott]

Just to add to this. I also had to set my EQ Client to run in Windows XP compatibility mode to stop crashing. Then I ran into an issue where I constantly got to the server select and it was completely empty. Added a Windows Security Essentials exception for the eqgame.exe and the directory that the game runs from and haven't had either issue since.