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Midoo
10-02-2021, 01:02 PM
16 GB RAM
Nvidia 1650 GTX Super Gaming with updated drivers
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core (3.1 GHz)
Latest Windows 10 patched

Not using WINEQ or any sort of client modification program, just the raw client in administrator mode and 1600x900 in windowed mode stretched using Borderless Gaming. I'm not using compatibility mode because I know for a FACT it drops my framerate to 20 FPS which is nauseating

It's nothing that does it in specific. The game will randomly freeze up and the client will go opaque and stop responding forever until I kill the process. It could be that I switched the power plan from AMD's trademarked thingy to Balanced (because I was suspecting it was fucking up my GPU) but I doubt it. I'm almost certain it's not an ingame thing because it does it whether I'm in EC tunnel or in a dead empty zone like Grobb on a weekday morning

It did this yesterday and the day after it, but it would usually do it after an hour or two of play so I ignored it. Today it's choking to death within 1 - 2 minutes of loading a character ingame. When I check it in task manager it says power usage is "very high" which for a game from 1999 I doubt should be normal

Can anyone who knows how the client works please help me? I can't even play the game anymore

https://i.imgur.com/dSGs4TW.png
Jibartik
10-02-2021, 01:05 PM
Sorry to hear of your struggles but your avatar is like perfect for this post.
Midoo
10-02-2021, 01:18 PM
https://i.imgur.com/XJMbY0N.png
Midoo
10-02-2021, 02:28 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My other characters don't do that. The character selection menu doesn't do that either. I just logged on my Halfling Druid who's in SK and my Dwarf Cleric who's in Crushbone and they didn't crash no matter how long I stayed.

There is SOMETHING in East Commonlands that is causing my client to fucking shit itself within seconds of loading the game. That thing possibly also walked in on my guild's platehouse run last night and when I was farming guards in Grobb.

Is there a potential thing like a mesh, texture, sound file or item that would cause the game to hang to death when loading? I would use procmon to check myself but apparently the client won't let you run if you have a resource monitor on so I'm totally helpless.
Kavious
10-02-2021, 04:03 PM
Being that its East Commons, did you try and shrink a chat window really small to minimize it such as an auction window? If any window is too small for text it will crash the client.

If this might be the case, you can rename/delete your chars UI setting file to reset them to default

On Green its UI_CharName_P1999Green.ini

On Blue its UI_CharName_project1999.ini
Midoo
10-02-2021, 05:04 PM
Being that its East Commons, did you try and shrink a chat window really small to minimize it such as an auction window? If any window is too small for text it will crash the client.

If this might be the case, you can rename/delete your chars UI setting file to reset them to default

On Green its UI_CharName_P1999Green.ini

On Blue its UI_CharName_project1999.ini

That fucking fixed it. Can't believe I was this retarded. Thank you a million million million times.
mrybczyn
10-05-2021, 11:56 PM
had the same issue, dunno what caused it but the charname ini file removal fixed it. Thanks you computer wizard!
BlackBellamy
10-06-2021, 11:25 AM
That fucking fixed it. Can't believe I was this retarded. Thank you a million million million times.

It's cool you weren't retarded. This 600-year old client continues to provide unexpected tribulations to everyone involved.