If you have full screen error problem black screen

[snsd_sone_eric]

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

Ok Here is how I fixed it.

I cut my eqclient.ini file out of the directory so it was forced to create a new one. Violia it works. I loaded EQ didnt touch a SINGLE OPTION.

It worked again when I loaded it.

Went into game, changes resolution to native, 1920x1080, reloaded it. WORKED!

Have not touched anything since.

I see a lot of advice being thrown around on various forums, including this one, telling people to modify their eqclient files. For me this never worked and I was following the instructions. Removing it and starting with an essentially empty one was the only thing that worked

haddad, I was about to post, glad I found this.

Can you explain what "cut my eqclient.ini file out of the directory" means? Did you open the eqclient.ini file in Notepad, and then simply delete the text and hit save? Or did you simply delete the entire eqclient.ini file? Or something else?

And can you explain what you meant by "reloaded it" when you wrote "Went into game, changes resolution to native 1920x1080, reloaded it. WORKED!"?

I'd sure like to try your fix, but I'm afraid of royally screwing this up or just doing it wrong and thinking the fix doesn't work.

Eric

[snsd_sone_eric]

Took a chance and just deleted the eqclient.ini file (after backing it up, of course), then tried to start game.

EULA screen and copyright screen were Full Screen (why?)

Then graphics system seemed to reset, and game went into windowed mode and did load screen.

Got to the toon selection screen right before entering Norrah, and screen "re-set" and went black. Nothing.

So, deleting the eqclient.ini file did not fix my particular problem, and now I can't even get into the game to try Video Mode Options. I tried deleting the eqclient.ini file three times with same result.

Whatever conflict there is, it's definitely graphics card and game. When EULA and copyright screens were on full-screen, I noticed if I got out that my desktop was also blown up to giant icons, etc. It's like the game was resetting my whole graphics system.

I'd appreciate any more advice anyone has.

[snsd_sone_eric]

Subject: Black Screen

Issue:
• Screen suddenly blacks out. Toon is no “blinded” in combat. Game is still running, having sound, seeing golden mouse cursor, can cast spells from hot buttons, etc.
• Only the EQ game goes black. Can see desktop, watch videos, surf net, open docs, etc.
• Once blacked out, all EQ Emu related screens are black. Even if I exit game completely, and re-start, the EULA screen is black.
• If I re-boot computer, game will start normally until it blacks out again at some random point.
• Blackout has occurred as early as a couple of seconds into viewing the screen where you select your toon to enter the game, to as late as 45 minutes of playing normally.
• Blackout has happened while meditating looking at ground afk, right after rezoning from FP to EC, to just running down path in EC, to standing and looking around, to the middle of fighting in WC.
• EQ P99 (the only emu I play) ran perfectly for the first 2 months, until about 2 weeks ago. I’d always played in 1280x720 windowed mode (my screen is 1600x90), and I could simultaneously surf Windows IE, Mozilla Foxfire, and Google Chrome, with a MS Word doc open! No issues.
• Until 2 weeks ago, no blackouts. I thought was a heat issue with graphics card since fan was running high. Since I have taken apart laptop, cleaned everything, and reapplied thermal paste to heatsink & CPU. I have heat monitoring utility, and no heat issues. Fan runs normally, temps normal. Game still blacks out.

Computer Stats:
• Laptop ASUS G72gx, Intel Core Duo P8700 at 2.53 MHz (+5% overclocked), 6 GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit O/S
• Graphics card – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
• All drivers are current, all devices working properly
• I play through wireless (WLAN) DSL, through a Netgear router.

Attempted Fixes:
These are all things I’ve done differently since the black outs. The game worked fine for 2 months without any of the below.
• Deleted EQ Emu, re-installed again from Titanium disks, then re-patched.
• Now play EQ as Administrator with XP sp3 (and tried sp2).
• Game Options – changed far clip plane to near, medium, far, farthest & changed sky to simple & complex.
• Game Options Video Mode – Have changed to 800x600, 1068x660, 1280x720
• Modified eqclient.ini file [VideoMode] WindowWidth, WindowHeight, Window, Height to match the in-game Game Options Video Mode settings.
• Modified eqclient.ini file WindowsMode=FALSE.
• Turned-off Power Saving mode of graphics card & WLAN.
• Played in windowed mode and full screen.
• The hit Ctr+Enter to switch between. Does not cause blackout & does not fix blackout once it happens.
• No heat issues. Laptop clean, fan barely runs, temps are great on GPU, CPU, graphics card, and unit as a whole.
• (Today) Deleted eqclient.ini file, started game: Game got to the toon selection screen, but blacked out before I could pick toon to enter the game.

I have not played with WinEQ 2.0. Frankly, I read all the instructions, I still have no idea what to do with it. Do I just run it while I’m playing P99, or do I need to use WinEQ to adjust game settings?

And the bigger question (to me) is, why did the game run fine and now doesn’t.

I’d appreciate anyone with some knowledge to help. And I’d really appreciate any instructions be step-by-step on what to do, as I’m a bit lost with computers. For example: It took me a good half hour to figure out that the solution “adjust the EQ INI file VideoMode…” meant find the file “eqclient” and open it in Notebook and make changes, since eqclient is the name of the file and the “ini” extension doesn’t show up in Windows Explorer to find it.

Thank you. Eric