Locking Windows and not crashing EQ

[mcoy]

Originally Posted by Beckoning [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I bought a new computer recently with a GTX 1650 and kept running into this issue. Completely randomly, the screen would freeze, although there was still background sound and the game continued to go. I would have to /quit out and reload. It could happen once in an hour or once in ten minutes. I tried all of the suggestions that I could find on the forums including editing the eqclient.ini to change the refresh rate to 60, altering window size to be consistent amongst the options, trying WinEQ 2.0, dgVoodoo2 and finally I stumbled on froomee's suggestion.

If I put wined3d.dll and d3d8.dll in the EQ folder (C:\EverQuest for me) and run the client itself (without WinEQ 2.0), I now no longer get any crashes. My eqclient.ini reads:

[VideoMode]
Width=1280
Height=960
WidthWindowed=1280
HeightWindowed=960
WindowedWidth=1280
WindowedHeight=960
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=60
WinEQWidth=1280
WinEQHeight=960

Hopefully this will help someone else feeling desperate after upgrading to a newer PC. Thanks froomee!

Hey - that's a good tip. Consider adding it to the tech support wiki:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Tech_Support

-Mcoy