How to: 3 ways to fix crashes in Project 1999

[Loiterius]

Hi folks,

I've put together a how-to video on setting compatibility mode/administrator, enable random single-core, and configuring dgVoodoo 2.

View the video here: 3 Ways to Stop Crashes in Project 1999

Would love feedback on how to do any of this better, or perhaps more known fixes for another video.

[kemuel]

Trying all 3, hopefully I stop crashing.

[mcoy]

Thanks for putting this together! We sure do see these questions often on the forum. One note, where you were showing the dgvoodoo2 conf, you didn't change the working directory so you're configuring the ini in your virtual profile, and not the one that will run against eqgame.exe - since earlier you told them to run that as admin.


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Here's the wiki link for the other frequent issues:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Tech_Support

-Mcoy

[Loiterius]

Thank you for the feedback, Mcoy! I watched a bunch of vids on configuring dgvoodoo and I wasn’t finding much detail outside of “drop it into the directory”. I will get the video updated to reflect that step.

[Loiterius]

I've updated the video to include Mcoy's feedback.

You can view the updated video here.

[spoil]

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

I've updated the video to include Mcoy's feedback.

You can view the updated video here.

Thanks, haven't seen a device reset error since using this setup. I'm still crashing pretty frequently when loading in, especially when camping and then logging in to different accounts, but it's a huge improvement over crashing in-game and dying.

[Loiterius]

I’m glad it is helping!

Are you getting an error alongside the crashes?

[mcoy]

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

Thanks, haven't seen a device reset error since using this setup. I'm still crashing pretty frequently when loading in, especially when camping and then logging in to different accounts, but it's a huge improvement over crashing in-game and dying.

Crashing when camping is usually resolved with compatibility mode on eqgame.exe for xp sp2 or sp3.

-Mcoy

[spoil]

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

I’m glad it is helping!

Are you getting an error alongside the crashes?

The error text says "The instruction at...referenced memory at... The memory could not be read."

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Crashing when camping is usually resolved with compatibility mode on eqgame.exe for xp sp2 or sp3.

-Mcoy

I'm getting crashes mostly after logging in before the character select screen. I'm running it in xp sp2 and doing everything else suggested here.

[spoil]

Also getting a runtime error.