Login Screen Black

[Xersius]

I was able to log in 3 days ago without any issues. Three days later my login screen is black (between server selection and character selection). Has something server side changed?

[Xersius]

Additional information:

Reinstalled, it fixed it.

Logged out (Camp/Quit not a crash). Problem occurs again.

The sceeen goes from full screen mode to windowed mode, then full screen again. When it returns the screen is black with a functional EQ cursor present. I can not CTRL+ALT+DEL out of it as this black screen seems to be dominant over the task manager screen.

Halp!

[Cpm2580]

Any resolution to this issue? I’m encountering the same.

[Zyco]

We having the same issue with my wifes PC.. Worked initially. Then after i log in its a black screen and big cursor and that's it. .need to restart the PC.

[xaix1999]

two things you can try.
ALT+ENTER will switch from full screen to windowed. you should be able to ALT-TAB to your task manager. assuming you open it before you start the client.
while you are camping, at about 5 seconds till you camp, you can use the /quit to close the entire client.
after you do this you will have to open the client again.

sounds like everyone is having a problem with a game resource still in use by maybe a duplicate client open. kinda like it didn't close properly.

[xaix1999]

also restarting your computer before every game session should get rid of most of the gremlins.

i had a similar problem but with wine-staging 4.13, reinstalled and switched to wine-stable fixed it.

[Poetic]

I would probably check resolution in your ini file.

[Zyco]

The only resolution is to delete the EQClient.ini file every time before I want to play.

[Poetic]

If that’s true and not just a pun, I think it’s because whatever default resolution doesn’t work on your newer pc, so you could modify it to something that does work In your .ini

[xaix1999]

please post your EQClient.ini

[Bones]

open your eqclient.ini

make sure you change the video mode settings on all of the available video mode options, not just winEQ (if you are using winEQ)

it should look like this (change the numbers to reflect what resolution you actually want to use though, as you can see for mine its 1920x1080)

Width=1920
Height=1080
WidthWindowed=1920
HeightWindowed=1080
WindowedWidth=1920
WindowedHeight=1080
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0
WinEQWidth=1920
WinEQHeight=1080

If thy numbers dont all match you will have random black screen crashes (or at least this could be one of the causes)