Game randomly closes?
 

Out of nowhere my client will just randomly poof. Looks like it's minimizing kind of, then gone. Only having this problem recently. Should probaaaaably post it on the bug forum but I wanted to see if anyone else is having this problem.

There are a couple of posts on this already. If you are running Windows 7 it has been suggested to run in compatibility mode. This however has not worked for me. The only fix someone posted that I have found works is zoning out and back in. Or logging on to a different toon then logging back in to the toon you want to exp with.

I still get this problem. Its so random. One week nothing, next week a couple of times. Can't track down any logical reason. Most of the times its when you first cast onto a mob or engage it. But, just the other day it happened right as I was handing insomething to an NPC, soooo /shrug

What processors are you guys running? I've never had a crash in the 2 months I've been playing p99 on my AMD athlon64 x2 running win7. I'm also using a ATI Radeon HD 5570 for my vid card.

Lots of people are having this problem but I'm not seeing many posting about their hardware specs. Could be a specific hardware/driver setup.

This used to happen to me all the time when I kited on my bard with 15+ mobs. There are quite a few posts around so maybe some people fixed it. I think winEQ works, I am not sure though.

I'm running I7. I also used the all in one installer for p99 so I'm only running on one core. As I mentioned before zoning/ logging in and out before pulling anything seems to have worked for me. It's inconvenient and I don't understand the reason it works but it does seem to. Worth trying anyway.

I've had crashes with WinEQ, also with using the batch file to force it to use one core. I have a feeling using a more modern client such as SoD may be the only way to solve this, shame it doesn't work at the moment.

I also find that WinEQ helps a great deal. But it doesn't entirely solve it.

But I can tell you for certain that I patched with a patcher program that's been posted on these forums, and had a crash to desktop pretty soon thereafter, while running in WinEQ. I went to my Everquest directory right afterwards and used the "Previous Versions" feature in win7 to revert the directory to before the patching. That was the last crash I saw.

A similar thing happened months ago after I tried some things like installing the higher-res graphics files from Trilogy, and generally messing with my client. I went back to a fresh "install" of Titanium that I have archived, and was fine for months afterward. So I think things sometimes do get corrupted in the client for various reasons. Or it could just be a coincidence.

AMD Athlon 7850 dual core @2.8GHz, Windows 7 64bit, 4GB of RAM. i've tried setting EQ to only run on one CPU for a while, didn't make a noticable difference.

I have a feeling its a timing issue with the newer, faster processors. Rael may be right that a newer client needs to be used.