Game crashing

[hextasy]

So I used the same install for probably 8 years. Recently started getting "Reset failed ()" errors, and couldn't find any way to resolve it... I was using WinEQ2, velious_blue IU... nothing special.

so today I tried a fresh install from CD install. duxaUI install - figure I can't go wrong there with such a large userbase... that's it... totally fresh...
Played for hours, no issue. Suddenly I crashed but to a black screen with the EQemu launcher vs WinEQ2... and i've crashed 3 times since then in the last 120 minutes......so it's almost like it builds up? that doesn't make much sense.

so wtf. Anyone else on win10, nvidia cards noticing more crashing than usual lately? what's going on? is it just me? surely it's not.... maybe it is....