Peculliar problem - crash on server connect

tandcemerson · #1 06-25-2008, 05:22 AM

Initially I had SP3 running, but thought that may be the culprit so I removed it and did a full non-SP update. You can never tell with new SP's sometimes, but now it seems that it was not. I just now tried a brand new Emu installation so I will give it a shot to see if there was anything there. I'll also try without sound.

Failing that, I'll repatch to SP3 and try that.

Thanks for taking the time to help me, everyone

nosfentora · #2 06-25-2008, 09:17 AM

Another thing that helped with one of the crashing issues I had was uninstalling, deleting the eq directory (save your character ini files for UI positioning and macros), and re-installing EQ.

tandcemerson · #3 06-25-2008, 01:12 PM

After my re-installation, it still wasn't working - exact same problem. I even deleted the directory (didn't have any active UI files anyways). Running without sound also did not make a difference. I was out most of the day so now that it's evening I'll try the SP3 update when time (and baby) allows

By the way, where do I put the "windowedmode=TRUE" in the eqclient.ini and is that the correct form? It wasn't there so I dropped it in the first section.

tandcemerson · #4 06-26-2008, 12:32 AM

I found this little section of dbg.txt ... why would it be choosing this resolution as opposed to the one selected through the client options?

2008-06-26 07:26:50 Activating window.
2008-06-26 07:26:51 Picking a default resolution, desktop is 1280 x 800, 32 bits
2008-06-26 07:26:51 Ratio is 1.60
2008-06-26 07:26:51 Resolution selected 1280 x 800, 32 bits

tandcemerson · #5 06-27-2008, 04:15 PM

Ok, this is annoying. This morning I tinkered around with the eqclient and actually made it to the character select and I thought ... "woohoo! I fixed it" and then I logged out. Of course I had to leave and didn't get back until now, but I'm getting that same error again.

The changes I made on the last attempt which worked was manually setting my eqclient res to my native desktop res (1280x800). However, of course, the setting stayed and now I can't get back in.

Oh well ... the fun in troubleshooting is wearing off so I think I'm going to concede to defeat and move on to other things. Thanks to everyone for your help!

tandcemerson · #6 06-29-2008, 12:38 PM

Amazing as it may seem, EQ Play Nice was the culprit. Go figure ...