About P99 and Trying to Play

[RPGrandPa]

I've tried playing P99 in the past years off and on and every time its just been a bad experience for me.

1) The crashes. 95% of the time when logging to character select the game just errors out and crashes forcing me to relog.

2) Zone crashing. Countless times when zoning, I'll just crash during zoning.

So many crashes or freeze ups, it just makes it so damned hard to even stay motivated about playing P99. It's funny because Live EQ plays just fun but EVERY freeshard EQ server I have tried has crashes like these. Not just P99 but other freeshards for EQ.

I have a top of the line PC, so it's not me trying to play these freeshard servers on a crappy pc. Why is it I have so many issues like this? Anyone else go through this?

Another thing I noticed last time on G99 was I'll set my UI up and play, then log off till another time and when I relog back on, my entire UI has reset. Does this every time on green. It's funny, back when Red99 has a decent population, I was playing it on an Alienware laptop, which is now old . . . like 8-9 years old but whats funny is that old laptop with an old 760 gfx card runs P99 fine lol but I want to play it on my main gaming rig but can't.

edit: Just like now, I figured, I'd give it a go, I log on, go to character select and click on my character and click play and . . . error. I mean seriously? Relogged in a second time, got in and of course UI totally reset as usual. :/

[Seducio]

A couple things to try:

1. Right click eqgame.exe, click Compatibility tab, check box Run this program in compatibility mode for: (select) Windows XP (Service Pack 3).

2. Lower in Settings check box Run this program as an administrator.

The issues you have sometimes happen with people who have machines that are very high end. Try these two items to try and clear up what you are facing.


Lastly regarding UI. You have to camp out the 30 seconds to character select screen for your UI file to save. If you just /ex out or /q out or crash out then the UI changes don't save.

Good luck

[WarpathEQ]

Solid advice from Seducio. 2 other things I've seen help...I run the game in WinEQ. I've done this from initial install but from what I understand it eliminates a lot of crashing issues. Also I read that forcing the game to run on a single core will help eliminate a ton of issues. These old clients weren't made to operate on multi core computers and a single core is more than capable of running the game.

[RPGrandPa]

Originally Posted by Seducio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A couple things to try:

1. Right click eqgame.exe, click Compatibility tab, check box Run this program in compatibility mode for: (select) Windows XP (Service Pack 3).

2. Lower in Settings check box Run this program as an administrator.

The issues you have sometimes happen with people who have machines that are very high end. Try these two items to try and clear up what you are facing.


Lastly regarding UI. You have to camp out the 30 seconds to character select screen for your UI file to save. If you just /ex out or /q out or crash out then the UI changes don't save.

Good luck

kk will give it a try

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are you running the game in windowed mode or in fullscreen?

Windowed

Originally Posted by Ooloo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The fact that you have a top of the line PC might be a big part of the problem. New OS's and even hardware hate being forced to run old software, which p99 by definition will always be.

P99, by far, runs more stable on an old winxp machine I built in 2004 with some entry level nvidia card than it ever has on any of my more modern systems.

Yea, it is not just P99 buit all freeshard EQ servers. Strange though that EQ Live runs fine.

Originally Posted by Arvan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

windowed mode stopped the crashing for me

I'm in Windowed mode

And I have an older Alienware Laptop, runs P99 just fine so it could be this monster of a PC I have.

[RPGrandPa]

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I log into character select, choose my character and click enter game and get this.

[mcoy]

Originally Posted by RPGrandPa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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I log into character select, choose my character and click enter game and get this.

Change resolution(s) in eqclient.ini for fullscreen/windowed. Remember, it's a 4:3 game.

-Mcoy

[RPGrandPa]

no change

[cd288]

Originally Posted by mcoy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Change resolution(s) in eqclient.ini for fullscreen/windowed. Remember, it's a 4:3 game.

-Mcoy

There was something I remember in the ini file where there was a section that showed the current resolution I was using for windowed mode, and there was another section in the ini file that I also had to change to mirror those numbers (so basically making sure both sections had the same numbers). Trying to recall what that second part of the ini file was called, but it reduced my crashes a lot (not 100%, but a lot).

[Zendir]

Originally Posted by RPGrandPa

Strange though that EQ Live runs fine.

EQ Live is now running a new 64bit client meant for newer CPUs. p99 runs the old Titanium client.

[cd288]

Are you running the game in windowed mode or in fullscreen?