Crashing while zoning

[cassaruby]

I'm having the exact same issues as getsmurfed. It's hard too port anyone while I'm busy crashing. Game goes not responding & I have to ctrl+alt+del.

[Somekid123]

If I spend at least an hour+ on EQ im gaurenteed to eventually zone crash, it gets stuck at loading screen or stuck at LOADING, PLEASE WAIT... being said as my last chat and UI screen. I did realize running in alt+tab window mode that im likely to crash more often, so I usually alt+enter prior to zoning then do again afterwards. I installed eqnice or whatever program it was a friend recommended to me, the 1 that's been around awhile but I couldn't findout how to run it as administrator. Uninstalled it since if I don't run as administrator my UI / hotkeys / spells / everything gets erased [Issue since pro99 released].

-Andain

[Mistle]

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

I don't know what the deal is but the crashing is just getting worse and worse. I'm getting a whole combination of problems between crashing on zone lines, inability to login unless I repeatedly attempt to connect, and then sometimes even when I do log in I don't see servers OR when I do try to connect to a server "An unkown error occurs". I've tried fresh installing, playing with and without DuxaUI, messing with video drivers, turning off load art, and a whole slew of other things. I've pretty much convinced myself it's something on the server's end. This problem can't be client side, simply because you remove files from the picture and then take a fresh set and the problem continues. Unless recently there is a common 3rd party update that everyone shares here...Which I find pretty hard to believe. It just sucks that this only seems to be afflicting a small (er) group of people so it isn't really being addressed it seems.

Edit: At this point I'm lucky to make one zone in five. And it takes 20+ attempts just to log in. So with crashing continually and constant load screens it's literally unplayable when I spend 4-5x trying to log in / connect more than I do actually in-game.

I don't know if anyone actually pays attention to this thread any more, but this is almost exactly what I get as well. Zoning is almost certain crash for me still.

This happens with no router or firewall active at all. But I do have a very poor connection, with a typical 800 ping (one of the reasons I play EQ in the first place, its very forgiving to this). So add that little data point to the others who say connection quality is a part of this crash bug.

[odiecat99]

I find the linkdeath to be more common using a Wi-Fi connection. When I plug directly into my Computer, the problem goes away instantly. I think I've heard of people having LD problems, fixing it by buying a new router and then the problem disappears.. This is just my experience. Perhaps there's packet loss or port problems or some shit, maybe router firewall... ect..

edit: using windows 7 64bit on a Acer Aspire 5733-z

[t0lkien]

This has just started happening to me too. I don't crash, I hang. It began only after timing out during a boat zoning in OOT (I was downloading and had a 1k+ ping as a result). I restarted and had to swim for 30 minutes to get back onto the boat. Since then, I've been hanging on every second zone. Maybe it has something to do with that?

[DOPE]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...d.php?t=111339

Try this fix, post results in thread!

[dali_lb]

The dev's need to begin work on SoD and SoF Client support.

many of the problems we have are because Titanium Client is the shit.
If you follow some of the other EMU servers tech forums it's very clear that bothe SoD, SoF and UF client is much more stable. One thing you notice is the zone loading time is much faster on the later client versions. Only problem with later clients as far as i have noticed is to find the right D3DX9_30.dll version for each client, wich is not always included, especially if you find it as *orrents.

I don't know if they have a specific reason to only support Titanium, like its maybe not so easy to get the old school spell effects and stuff to run on the later clients, but if its more stable, why not just use it instead of using a client with so many bugs in it.

it seems like Titanium is a transition client between the old dx7 and newer dx9 clients with loads of bugs and many functions from the old system left in limbo without being converted 100%

[Kushie]

One thing I notice is when i crash on zoning (60% of the time), my mouse doesn't lock up like it should. I can still use my mouse even though everything else is zoning.

[Aeronos]

Maybe try ctrl+alt+delete bring up task manager go to Processes tab and find eqgame.exe right click it and set affinity; a box will pop up untick all the checks and select CPU 0 only or CPU 1 only. It will not hurt anything to try selecting diff CPU cores. This has worked so far for me and I believe it is b/c I have an i7 processor with 8 threads and the game only supports 1 thread. Also I did not use to do this fix I played fine for a month then after a recent patch it started to cause me to crash.

[Morlaeth]

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

Maybe try ctrl+alt+delete bring up task manager go to Processes tab and find eqgame.exe right click it and set affinity; a box will pop up untick all the checks and select CPU 0 only or CPU 1 only. It will not hurt anything to try selecting diff CPU cores. This has worked so far for me and I believe it is b/c I have an i7 processor with 8 threads and the game only supports 1 thread. Also I did not use to do this fix I played fine for a month then after a recent patch it started to cause me to crash.

Trying this.