Crashing while zoning

[YeOldeLordJiggz]

So I recently started having this crashing alot problem, and I dont know if I have any solid ideas as to why but hopefully this info helps.
The problem didn't really start for me until recently in the past few months, and has been alot worse lately.
I will be trying to log in to the character select and constantly getting booted back to the account log in, or I'll get into the character select and crash while trying to get online on my toons, or the crashes will occur after i've logged in and attempt to zone load.
While sometimes the problems can persist alot, often retrying numerous times I will eventually be successful trying to get in, or other times it will constantly crash and seem like I wont be able to play at all or eventually it will go away and start working normally again.
The problem didnt really become apparent for me until I created different accounts to hold mules to bank extra inventory I couldnt hold on my main toons, and I found while attempting to do xfers with a players help I would have trouble after trying to log into a different account then the one I normally play on, but I did find completely exiting the login and relaunching before entering a different account name and password to try and log in helped resolve crashing I found related to trying to log onto a different toon on another account then the one I just logged out of while trying to do an xfer.
there is also another thing, I play p99 from different locations sometimes, normally, and when I usually dont see this problem at all is when I am at home, playing on my older desktop using crappy wifi internet, and usually I account any crashes I experience to the fact that someone else int he house might be using a device on the internet causing me to time out and crash as a result.
Then on other occasions, when I am at a friends house playing on their newer laptop, using better hardline high speed cable, I found the problem happens alot, sometimes constantly, and only successfully being able to log in after many attempts, and then usually end up crashing at another point later when I try loading into another zone, but then on the same pc sometimes the problem goes away all together and I wont see the problem of crashing alot again for hours or days.
I thought it might have had problems to do with background programs running on the computer like antivirus and internet security programs, torrent downloading programs, steam or chrome, etc, related programs that could have an affect on internet connectivity, but often found shutting these programs down had little affect to releive the troubles.
I also thought that maybe it happens alot more during busier times when alot more players are on the server.
I also had a theory maybe it was related to some change in the game to do with the latest updates after they came out, or possible changes related to preperations for the upcoming velious release.
I don't know if any of this information helps, but if any of the staff want to message me sometime, I'll try and check in every few days and give some personal contact info if we want to test some things out and see what the problem might be.
My computer at home i usually play on and dont experience these problems doesnt have internet security, torrent downloading programs, or steam on it, so their might be a link between background programs, but disabling them on the laptop i play on at different times didnt seem to help releive the problem either.

[sabersyii]

I really enjoyed playing P99. However I moved and now P99 is very unforgiving with the kind of internet I have now. So every time I zone there is a really high chance the game will just freeze up. Then when I try and log back in it will freeze up most of the time. I’m at the point where enough is enough. There for I have found another really well done EQ server Chronicles of Norrath and I will be playing there from now on. I really wish you all (P99 admin) would have fixed this problem.

Take Care all

[Pufferfish]

If you have Windows 7 or Windows 8.0, update KB2670838 has been known to cause all sorts of issue's with older games. You can try uninstalling it to see if it fixes any problems for you. (Google KB2670838 to get an idea of what I am talking about)


How to check if you have update KB2670838
Open the command prompt. Type...
wmic qfe | find "KB2670838"

If nothing comes up, you're golden.

If it lists the update + Computer Name\User Name + date installed, then you have update KB2670838 installed.


How to uninstall update KB2670838
Open the command prompt. Type...
wusa /uninstall /kb:2670838
When it finishes, reboot your computer

[Feathers]

WinEQ2 seems to make a difference. I'm able to zone a lot more without getting kicked, but I just got booted to login zoning out of KC.

Originally Posted by dbg.txt

2016-01-01 01:31:13 Cleanup 10
2016-01-01 01:31:13
2016-01-01 01:31:14 Resetting UI.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 Resetting character select UI.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 Resetting game UI.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 UI Reset.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 Cleanup 11
2016-01-01 01:31:14
2016-01-01 01:31:14 CRender::InitDevice: Using 32bit mode.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 CRender::InitDevice: Using vsync 0.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 CRender::InitDevice: Using 24bit depth buffer with 8 bit stencil.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 CRender::InitDevice: HardwareTnL Enabled.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 Using hardware vertex shaders.
2016-01-01 01:31:14 Initializing render system.
2016-01-01 01:31:15 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2016-01-01 01:31:15 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2016-01-01 01:31:15 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2016-01-01 01:31:15 Initializing engine internals.
2016-01-01 01:31:15 CRender::InitDevice completed successfully.
2016-01-01 01:31:15 Parsing INI file ./eqlsUIConfig.ini
2016-01-01 01:31:15 INI file ./eqlsUIConfig.ini loaded.

Happy New Year!!!

[Sebastionleo]

Was having issues during high pop times with bad ping causing crashes. Switching to WinEQ2 seems to have fixed my issues. Instead of 900 ping, crashes, desyncs and stuff, I topped out at 280 ping, usually more around 130 (i'm in San Diego, so higher base ping)

[vincenthg]

After the patch, it does work fine. I thought it finally solved,thanks God and the p99 staffs. From the crash (screen freeze,etc) ratio 1/2 to prolly 1/6. This "fine" situation works for a few days. But now...the crash came back....

so many crash, so many freeze. Made me hard to continue playing.
Hope the problem could be solved soon...

[Yrzep]

Any work being done on this? I'd say it's a good 50/50 if I'm going to crash while zoning.

I do notice that when the game crashes, the forum "goes down" for me... not sure, but I'm thinking its something network related.

Running a Dell Optiplex 390 with an SSD, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 7800 series GFX.

[Illuvator]

... having this problem as well. I've been struggling with it for a couple days trying to get things stable, but I'm about at the end of my rope. I've read through pages and pages of people having similar problems and finding solutions, but nothing so far has worked reliably. The zoning crashes happen alongside others:


-About half the time when I move past server select I get kicked back to login, with a 1017 to follow. Interestingly, even after the 1017 window, it often lets me log in to character select.
-Often (over half) when trying to enter world I get kicked back to login as well. When this happens, the character appears to login, since I get a 1018 for a few minutes afterwards.
-In the event that I actually am able to make it into the game, I crash when zoning about 50% of the time, maybe a bit more.
-I have yet to have a disconnect from the world that wasn't related to zoning, however.

I'm currently running: MSI z170A Gaming M5 with a Intel Skylake 6700k and an MSI 1070 Gaming X.

Things I've tried:
-I'm running with WinEQ2, running as admin.
-I've tried various compatibility modes with no notable difference. I've tried reinstalling a few times with no luck, both with Duxa's all-in-one and without.
-I've tried various resolution tweaks.
-I've gone with antivirus turned on and off both.
-I've tried at my normal overclocked settings, without any overclocked settings, and currently underclocked under 4.0ghz (since I found a post saying this helped).

No luck at any of the marks.

I've also tried installing and connecting from my laptop, but the above symptoms seem to persist there as well in nearly the same flavor.

As such, I was thinking maybe it's a connection issue? I initially had my PC wired via my router, but cutting the router out for a direct line didn't seem to help either.

When I'm able to connect, my ping hovers around 25ms, and using the command prompt to ping eqemulator.net returns under 15ms. The problems do seem to be worse during peak times, though, so maybe it's still something weird connection wise?

Any thoughts or advice?

[chadtwoke]

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

... having this problem as well. I've been struggling with it for a couple days trying to get things stable, but I'm about at the end of my rope. I've read through pages and pages of people having similar problems and finding solutions, but nothing so far has worked reliably. The zoning crashes happen alongside others:


-About half the time when I move past server select I get kicked back to login, with a 1017 to follow. Interestingly, even after the 1017 window, it often lets me log in to character select.
-Often (over half) when trying to enter world I get kicked back to login as well. When this happens, the character appears to login, since I get a 1018 for a few minutes afterwards.
-In the event that I actually am able to make it into the game, I crash when zoning about 50% of the time, maybe a bit more.
-I have yet to have a disconnect from the world that wasn't related to zoning, however.

I'm currently running: MSI z170A Gaming M5 with a Intel Skylake 6700k and an MSI 1070 Gaming X.

Things I've tried:
-I'm running with WinEQ2, running as admin.
-I've tried various compatibility modes with no notable difference. I've tried reinstalling a few times with no luck, both with Duxa's all-in-one and without.
-I've tried various resolution tweaks.
-I've gone with antivirus turned on and off both.
-I've tried at my normal overclocked settings, without any overclocked settings, and currently underclocked under 4.0ghz (since I found a post saying this helped).

No luck at any of the marks.

I've also tried installing and connecting from my laptop, but the above symptoms seem to persist there as well in nearly the same flavor.

As such, I was thinking maybe it's a connection issue? I initially had my PC wired via my router, but cutting the router out for a direct line didn't seem to help either.

When I'm able to connect, my ping hovers around 25ms, and using the command prompt to ping eqemulator.net returns under 15ms. The problems do seem to be worse during peak times, though, so maybe it's still something weird connection wise?

Any thoughts or advice?

Currently experiencing exactly the same issues as this guy. Fresh install of the one Casey put on pirate bay. I used to play like a year ago and didn't have these problems. Running Win 7 64 bit on a toaster.

[Rathiel72]

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

... having this problem as well. I've been struggling with it for a couple days trying to get things stable, but I'm about at the end of my rope. I've read through pages and pages of people having similar problems and finding solutions, but nothing so far has worked reliably. The zoning crashes happen alongside others:


-About half the time when I move past server select I get kicked back to login, with a 1017 to follow. Interestingly, even after the 1017 window, it often lets me log in to character select.
-Often (over half) when trying to enter world I get kicked back to login as well. When this happens, the character appears to login, since I get a 1018 for a few minutes afterwards.
-In the event that I actually am able to make it into the game, I crash when zoning about 50% of the time, maybe a bit more.
-I have yet to have a disconnect from the world that wasn't related to zoning, however.

I'm currently running: MSI z170A Gaming M5 with a Intel Skylake 6700k and an MSI 1070 Gaming X.

Things I've tried:
-I'm running with WinEQ2, running as admin.
-I've tried various compatibility modes with no notable difference. I've tried reinstalling a few times with no luck, both with Duxa's all-in-one and without.
-I've tried various resolution tweaks.
-I've gone with antivirus turned on and off both.
-I've tried at my normal overclocked settings, without any overclocked settings, and currently underclocked under 4.0ghz (since I found a post saying this helped).

No luck at any of the marks.

I've also tried installing and connecting from my laptop, but the above symptoms seem to persist there as well in nearly the same flavor.

As such, I was thinking maybe it's a connection issue? I initially had my PC wired via my router, but cutting the router out for a direct line didn't seem to help either.

When I'm able to connect, my ping hovers around 25ms, and using the command prompt to ping eqemulator.net returns under 15ms. The problems do seem to be worse during peak times, though, so maybe it's still something weird connection wise?

Any thoughts or advice?

Same problems....been playing fine for a couple of mouths and nothing on my computer has been changed but yet today 60% or more of the time that I zone even if that zone is a log in I crash back to the log in. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!