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Postby Almegest Victory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:27 am

Okay, so I've had this problem before and my friend that played EQ..Cronto fixed it, but he really didn't tell me what he did.

Now, for some odd reason, after I load up EQ and when I get up to the character selection screen. Everquest freezes on me. If i were to load up the game, the screen will freeze every 5 seconds for a period of 10 to 15 seconds. Can anyone help?
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Postby Thon » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:45 am

make sure you have the latest video drivers. and that your hard drive isn't filled to 99% capacity with pron

that's all i can think of atm :dunno:
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Postby Aatrex » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:53 am

virus stuff running in the background?
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Postby Almegest Victory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:15 am

I have the latest drivers and I have 1 porn! I'm doing a complete virus scan atm.
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Postby Almegest Victory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:30 am

Image

Okay, I'm stupid and can't resize that picture
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Postby Thon » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:34 am

disable the anti-virus software while playing though. as in actually turn it off and make sure it's not even passively running in the toolbar

how do your other games run btw? if they run fine it's an EQ prob, and you might wanna fiddle with the video settings before and after you log in. if they all experiance some probs, you might wanna try:

go to start...run, and type in "msconfig". go to the startup tab and look for anything that looks like it shouldn't be there. generally you can just type the name of the .exe you suspect in yahoo, and you'll find a page that'll tell you if it's a known problem maker or part of your normal background apps. if you've got like 100 things in the list, you've got problems.

it doesn't sound like windows firewall could be causing it. but make sure that's off too, it's a damn gremlin
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Postby Almegest Victory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:39 am

I have like barely anything running in the background and no on the firewall. Everquest is the only game I play and it wasn't having any problems until today. It just boom all of a sudden started freezing.

So, I've cleaned my computer
Screwed w/ settings
Updated to Service Pack2
Checked MScong
Made sure nothing was running in background.

I'm running out of ideas.
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Postby Tikker » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:34 am

Turn Journalling off!


that shit sucks
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Postby Almegest Victory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:39 pm

And this means what?
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Postby Tikker » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:12 pm

hit ALT-J in EQ and make sure it isn't checked


it writes a log file of like every NPC you see, every NPC speech, etc etc and causes no end of issues in zones that are busy
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Postby Almegest Victory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:33 pm

didn't work >< I got it off though
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Postby mofish » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:39 pm

I would definitely get another game and see if the freezing persists in it. Or if not a game, download 3dmark05 or 3dmark06 and see if any weirdness happens when you run it.

Need to know if its just an EQ issue or not.
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Postby Almegest Victory » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:20 am

It's the comptuer ><
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Postby Almegest Victory » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:15 am

Got it fixed, yay!~ Fuck fans...<3 Cronto
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