drop to desktop or froze problem

fieni · Member Joined: 29 Aug 2001 Posts: 686 Location: Californie

Here is something I found which make a hell of a difference for thos having trouble like EQ droping to desktop or PC frozing, problem mainly due to the grafic interaction of EQ.

I did the following two change, and I am back in the game:
1) In eqclinet.init, find the following two line and change them to FALSE:

UseLuclinVahShirMale=FASLE
UseLuclinVahShirFemale=FALSE

Note: The are NOT with the others UseLuclinxxx variable, but few line after

2) If you are using a geforce, go on additinal props and turn OFF antialiasing

That made a hell of diff for me, hope that may help you.

Alermik · Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Posts: 350

Fieni, what do Vah Shir look like with their models turned off? IIRC, you actually can't turn off the Vah Shir models in-game if you have SoL installed.

fieni · Member Joined: 29 Aug 2001 Posts: 686 Location: Californie

They looks like human

And BTW, that worked, but I got froze twice after... Giving up and waiting for next patch

Jullious · Member Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 743

So you are saying that your fixes in the first post didn't fix? (I have this issue also. My client freezes, sometimes for minutes at a time. Sometimes I give up and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL so I can reboot. Usually, just as the game window flashes back up before VIs code shuts it down I see the freeze break. But by then it is too late. I managed to unfreeze the game but VI shuts it down and I'm into the reboot sequence. VI is such an arse for their NO WINDOWS FER JOO attitude.

fieni · Member Joined: 29 Aug 2001 Posts: 686 Location: Californie

the fix *improve* that bug, but don't fix it completly. I was able to play for a while yesterday wo/ froze, but when I tried again, I froze twice.
It is just a pain as you can't do nada, specially can even think to solo...

fieni · Member Joined: 29 Aug 2001 Posts: 686 Location: Californie

And BTW, these froze may corrupt your eqclient.ini and character file...
So think about backup.

VI programers should definitively be hired by microsoft, they meet the same level of quality...

Jullious · Member Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 743

I came up with a solution to my client software freezing. I run it in EQWindows and when it does freeze I ALT - TAB about of the game (fastest way for me to get the mouse out of the game) and open a dos window (fastest, cheapest, least memory and resource using program I've got) which unfreezes the game. Kill the dos window and ALT - TAB back into the game. Haven't dropped in weeks now.