eqgame.exe crashes immediately

[avatarofdiscord]

I actually have the same problem of the client immediately crashing, but this pops up:



The thing is, I logged on last night and leveled about 5 levels, went linkdead, and the game froze. I have to close the game using ctrl+alt+del, and i tried to open the client again and it keeps crashing.

[GeorgeS]

On my vista32 machine, I reduced the desktop resolution to 1024x768 and made sure the eqgame runs in window mode. That fixed the error.

My laptop runs Nvidia 8800gts and 4 gigs memory, and at first eqgame crashed. Try the above.

GeorgeS

[Detest]

So how do I force the game to run in windowed mode? Is there some line i need to add to the eqclient.ini?

[Detest]

Originally Posted by avatarofdiscord

And I do get that same error window, but like I said in my first post there is almost no useful information in the window. It doesn't have one of those for more information click this buttons.

[Aramid]

Originally Posted by Detest

And I do get that same error window, but like I said in my first post there is almost no useful information in the window. It doesn't have one of those for more information click this buttons.

I know you solved your problem, but actually, you DID get useful info, so I am posting this for others to reference. In your log that you posted above you got:

2008-06-07 02:24:56 Resolution was capped at 1280 x 720
2008-06-07 02:24:56 Resolution verified 1280 x 720, 32 bits ... diff was 1000 from 0 modes
2008-06-07 02:24:56 Resolution selected 1280 x 720, 32 bits
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: Using 32bit mode.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: Using vsync 0.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: Using 24bit depth buffer with 8 bit stencil.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: HardwareTnL Enabled.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 Using hardware vertex shaders.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: Retrying without lockable backbuffer.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: Using Software Vertex processing.
2008-06-07 02:24:56 CRender::InitDevice: CreateDevice failed.

Right here it's telling you it's a video problem.

Run the OPTIONS program or go directly into eqclient.ini and set the resolution low, like 800 X 600 and work you way up from there.