Crashing on /camp
 

Most of the time when I finish camping, the client crashes. Not every time but I'd say about 75% chance. It doesn't appear to actually log me out either as I'll have a "character in the world" for a few minutes. I never crash while zoning, it's just when camping out. Is this a known issue? I couldn't find anything about it.

https://i.imgur.com/IWKD9qZ.jpg

Set eqgame.exe to use compatibility mode for XP SP2 (or SP3).

https://wiki.project1999.com/Tech_Su...ing_or_Camping

-Mcoy

When I do that, the game can no longer detect my UI or settings files and reverts to the default on every login. What gives?

Hahaha this happens to me on my desktop, but not on my laptop... No idea why, it's been doing this now for like 4 years.. I just accept it as part of EQ, and tell folks when switching toons- "i'll probably crash, brb"

should also run game in administrator mode. Admin mode + compatability mode resolved most of my crashing issues.

Yeah, I just kind of live with it as well but it is a bit annoying.

Some people I play with who experience similar issues mitigate them by using /q instead of /camp when swapping toons.

Fascinating.... Do they do this because the small chance of successfully logging out, isn't worth the 30sec camp out? Honestly i should just do this, why piss around when i know it's just gonna crash anyways...

30 seconds after the /q you are free of "character in the world", and you can restart the client during those 30 seconds if needed.

It does seem to crash easily 90% of the time on /camp and the wait to get back in appears to be the same as on a /q.

I've also noticed that if I camp out immediately after logging in, it doesn't seem to crash. The cause appears to stem from something related to having been online for a while. If I'm camping after a long session, it always crashes. If I log in and camp right away, the chance is less.