ResetDeviceFailed()!

[LazyHydras]

Any idea what's causing this? Whether I use alt + enter or the "Fullscreen" option from the in-game menu, I seem to have a 1 in 4 (or thereabouts) chance of this error occurring and my game crashing (causing me to go LD).

Not sure what the cause of it, my NVIDIA drivers seem to be up to date. Does running in compatibility mode do anything? Thanks, in advance, for your response.

[Darkatar]

Any idea what's causing this? Whether I use alt + enter or the "Fullscreen" option from the in-game menu, I seem to have a 1 in 4 (or thereabouts) chance of this error occurring and my game crashing (causing me to go LD).

Not sure what the cause of it

Because the client is ancient and doesn't properly change between a fullscreen display and windowed display. Choose one, stay with it.

I recommend playing windowed. Tabbing out of fullscreen for long periods is high-crash-risk move as well.

[LazyHydras]

Because the client is ancient and doesn't properly change between a fullscreen display and windowed display. Choose one, stay with it.

I recommend playing windowed. Tabbing out of fullscreen for long periods is high-crash-risk move as well.

Good advice. How would I go about changing the size of the screen, though? Is there anything like "Windowed-Fullscreen," or is that impossible to achieve?

[Darkatar]

EQCLIENT.INI (edit: In your EQ folder)


[VideoMode]
WindowedWidth=1280
WindowedHeight=1024


Change to desired values!

[LazyHydras]

Thanks.

[Darkatar]

Goodluck! Keep away the blackscreen of doom!

[Baler]

Just want to add this info.

"Error: ResetDevice () failed"
Is a known titanium client problem that will never be fixed.

And it will inevitably happen after you alt+enter enough times or even the first time.
This error would be thrown if DirectX failed to reset the Direct3D device.

http://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php

[schulerta]

I run the WinEQ Lite and run in Windowed mode exclusively and still get this error regularly. What am I doing wrong?

[Greymantle]

There seems to be no fix. I can run fullscreen all the time, windowed all the time it will crash with this error at any time. :( It always seems to throw this error out when I spin in place to change my view direction.

[Finlainea]

I use Borderless Gaming (an app) to play in fullscreen mode in windowed games, it fixes all my issues.

[Waldo73]

I'm a fullscreen purist and I used to get the Render failed all the time.

Recently I started using /viewport to get the classic 4:3 experience. A great side effect of this is that I have had zero Render failures since.

One note.. sometimes in fullscreen like this, clicks on the edges of the client would bring me to the desktop. What I found stops this is every time I go fullscreen is clicking a macro that "cycles" /viewport like so:

/viewport reset
/viewport 240 0 1440 1080

(I play with 1920 x 1080 settings, same as my desktop, if this helps).

[Greymantle]

I did some digging and found a thread that said the Titanium launcher is the blame. I switched to WinEQ2 launcher and have yet to crash in 3 days now. You will have to run it in windows mode but with this launcher, you can drag the window to make it borderless.