Client crash on camp out

[Lyta]

When i camp out in game i get a popup upon completion that says something like the client may have crashed, then there are two buttons for sending an error report, yes or no.

When i press no the client crashes.

Does anyone else have this problem?

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Yes, this is a common enough problem. Here is a possible solution:


Edit "Launch Titanium.bat" with a text editor to use this set of commands instead of what's in there by default:

cmd.exe /C Start /affinity 1 eqgame.exe patchme

This will make the game run on a single CPU core, which seems to help with stability.

Only downside to doing this is you need to remember to re-apply it whenever a new patch comes out, as Launch Titanium.bat will be overwritten.

[Goregasmic]

Yeah had that happen all the time. Running it as administrator mostly solved it for me. It crashed like 90% of the time and now it only crashes if I camp out like 8 times in the same session. If I have lots of toon switching to do I'll camp to desktop and relaunch when I feel it is coming.

[mcoy]

Set eqgame.exe to xp sp 2 (or sp3) compatibility.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Tech_Support#Game_Crashing_When_Zoning_or_Camping

-Mcoy

[Goregasmic]

Actually yeah it isnt run as admin but compatibility mode, my bad.

When you do this it will create a new EQ folder somewhere and use those files for UI so you'll have to copy/paste old folder to that folder if you want to keep your UI settings/Friendlist and all.

[Mattson]

I used to crash on camp out all the time, in fact it was the only time I would ever crash... here's how I fixed it.

Move the Everquest directory to a location not managed by windows, I chose the root of the C:\ drive.

The problem is Window's folders like Program Files, Documents, or Desktop don't allow you to write onto them all the time, even when you explicitly give it permission. Moving out of a windows folder fixes this.

What's happening is Everquest is trying to save the cache at the end of the session but it doesn't have write privileges so it hangs.

[mcoy]

I used to crash on camp out all the time, in fact it was the only time I would ever crash... here's how I fixed it.

Move the Everquest directory to a location not managed by windows, I chose the root of the C:\ drive.

The problem is Window's folders like Program Files, Documents, or Desktop don't allow you to write onto them all the time, even when you explicitly give it permission. Moving out of a windows folder fixes this.

What's happening is Everquest is trying to save the cache at the end of the session but it doesn't have write privileges so it hangs.

This is step 1 in the install instructions that no-one reads:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651

-Mcoy