Zoning issues?
 

Just built a brand new machine. I've got everything up and running but have experienced a bit of a problem and I"m not sure if anybody has come across this before.

When the game loads after log-in or zones, I don't see the splash screen/progress bar. The client says "Program not responding" and my cursor changes to the windows 7 cursor.

The funny thing is, I don't crash to desktop. If I'm logging in, I'm brought to the character select screen, then i can select my character, and it happens again and I'm in.

If it's between zones, the splash screen never appears, and then I zone.

Anybody run into this problem? Anybody have any suggestions?

Computer's an i5 4690K (3.5Ghz), Asus Z97-Pro motherboard, 16GB of Ram, and a 780GTX video card. Hard drives are in a RAID 5 configuration.

The first thing I would check is to see if your harddrive is the issue.

I've never run into this problem, but if I had, what I would try is running P99 off of a flash drive just to see if it is, indeed your hard drive.

Next I would check permissions, always run as admin and add EQ to your whitelist for whatever firewall/virus protection you have.

Not sure if that will work, but like I said, these are the steps I would take =p

Also try what it says in this thread...

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...ghlight=Zoning

It could be your processor.

It depends on the zone for me. Rarely do I get splash screens. If you don't crash I wouldn't worry about it. I play in windows mode so that might be my issue. Sometimes the whole window shifts down right a bit then back up when I zone, as I haven't found a fix to play in full screen yet. Tbh I like windows mode anyways. It allows me to have instant access to my other screen.

Yes, I suspect it's possibly related to Windows Mode, and yes the exact same thing happens of having it shift down then back up.

I'm going to try to run it in Windows xp mode, to see if that fixes the issue, or maybe I will try WinEQ. The game itself runs fine, no hitches/glitches, etc....just that annoying "did this crash or not" feeling every time you zone is troublesome.

Yeah I hear ya. Generally if it takes more then a minute to load I will just force quit, do something else for a while then pop back in game. With computers these days turn around is no more then 5 mins. Obviously if you were in a group that would suck but most ppl wait for ya these days.

Did setting your client to run in XP compatibility mode?

Business as usual for me since i started playing, and depends on my inet connection. The game always goes through a "not responding" period, but usually it only lasts a few seconds. When the connection is bad, it'll hang there until I dc.

I didn't do that last night and plan on doing that as my first attempt to resolve the issue tonight.

I crashed a few times loading the game, but after that I didn't crash again. I never crashed while zoning, just window mode says program isn't responding and then i magically pop in the next zone.

So running it in XP mode seemed to resolve the issue. I am randomly getting hitches, and I assume that's when people zone into whatever zone I'm in though.