Client just shuts down

[Pescador]

Try going into your options at the menu screen, and reducing everything to "default".

Also try to reduce most of your graphical options. I basically turned everything down to the minimum and it *seems* to have reduced my crash rate (could just be luck so far).

The options I haven't messed with yet are the advanced options... pixel shaders 1.2, pixel shaders 1.6, etc... I'm considering just unchecking EVERYTHING and turning all options to the minimum, and stress testing that setup for a week. If I don't crash, I'll just turn on one option at a time until I start seeing crashes again. Hopefully I find the culprit.

But for now, just turn down all graphics options to a minimum; it seems to help.

[Dunes]

Pescador - Good advice, and Ill give that a shot. Good luck tracking down the culprit! Once its identified, please let us know [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Malrubius]

Given that the client is crashing because it is unable to find a string resource of some kind, I doubt that messing with graphics settings will be of any help.

I wish I were wrong...but I really doubt it.

[iiNGloriouS]

Edit - Fixed it by simply reinstalling.

[Ryujee]

does it to me, no idea why. it also lets me click the quick launch bar and programs near the outer edge of the full screen. it has also been known to black out the screen and tell me "reset device has failed"

[Dunes]

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

Edit - Fixed it by simply reinstalling.

iiNGlorious, it has been a couple of days since your post - can you confirm that this is still a solution that works?

As with so many software issues in the past, a recommended solution is to reinstall. My personal experience with this, unfortunately, is that reinstall is a last act of desperatation and tends not work (for me). I will give it a shot and see what happens, and one can hope for the best!

On other thing that does give me a shred of hope - I had one of the two SSD's in my system flake out (curse you Intel!), causing my system to crash a couple times a few weeks ago. The more I think about it, I was playing EQ at the time, and the crashing may have jacked up some files. Ill try reinstalling tonight and let you guys know if that works. Not that your personally interested, but coming from a reinstall skeptic, if it works, it might be worth a try

[Klath]

Another thing people can try is uninstalling the driver for the "Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver" that, I believe, gets installed with versions of Windows that include Media Center. I nuked this when I was having trouble getting certain characters in chat and I haven't had the client go poof since.

1. Open Device Manager
2. Click on "Keyboards" to open the tree.
3. Right-Click on "Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard" and choose "Uninstall", then click "Ok".
4. Right-Click on "Microsoft eHome MCIR Keyboard" and choose "Uninstall", then click "Ok".
5. Right-Click on "Microsoft eHome Remote Control Keyboard keys" and choose "Uninstall", then click "Ok".
6. Click on "Human Interface Devices" to open the tree.
7. Right-Click on "Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver" and choose "Disable", then click "Ok".

(Instructions lifted from this thread)

[Estu]

I used to have this issue a lot - Nilbog recommended EQPlayNice, and since using it, I have never had a crash. I suggest this to anyone having this issue.

[Estu]

Never mind - just got a crash with EQPlayNice. It was on another EQEmu server, though, not P99; not sure whether crashes will still occur on P99.

[Estu]

And, just got a crash on P99. I'm starting to become convinced that there is no way to stop these.