ok i finally got on and lvled my Rogue to 21 ,yes with black boxes and all ,then i was going to change chars got booted off and haven't been able to get back on =( its back the CONNECTING thing again and just sits there please help =(((

This is the end of EQ. It's way too slow now and looks like crap! 5-10mins to zone? OMG! WTF is this? Having a higher end PC I'd expect more than this crap. 3 of my friends cancelled their accounts today, gonna lose all my friends damn it! FKing expansion, Verant is a piece of ****, they can't do anything right and I hope they go down this time. Enough is enough.

I was having the problem of logging on and getting booted after 10-15 sec's, Then went and did some digging, I read on another post to go back one step on the Nvidia drivers (I am running a Vanta) to ver. 2181 (Downloaded from www.magic-pro.com about 4.0Mb) I have been playing now for over two hours (only got off because the wife threatened to cut the phone cord) Thought i had better let someone know.

Yup, yup, I'm stupid. Somewhere along the way I got it into my head that I would still be able to play the old EQ with DirectX 8.0a. Dumb, dumb, dumb, see rant at the end of this message.

So, I ask y'all is there any way I can continue to play EQ with Windows 95?



Sony/Verant wants me to buy a whold new F'n computer to play the game that I already purchased and have been paying them to play. Sony/Verant says, F_U! We don't care that you put months and months of real life time into our game thinking you could, ghee, continue to play it. Had they said, hey, just so you know, if you want to level your character up high and make some good buds along the way you will have to, like buy a F'n new computer every year or two just for the privilage. I probably would have said, hey no thanks, there better ways to spend my time.

The one thing I have learned from this is not to trust Sony. I plan to boycott all their products as a result of this. I hope they loose thousands and thousands of players over this!

Roaaars,
Aslanlionhearted

...I have EQ working now (I don't have the expansion). Overall, I'm surprised that it worked. I have a DSL line, but was still getting the same errors that 56k's were getting about the patches. Blah Blah Hard drive full blah blah. Well, finally, after downloading and getting new drivers and all, I got EQ working. The patches include new skeleton models and other small additions (these additions show up even if you don't have Luclin...they come with the patch). The graphics are damn nice, but there is one problem: It runs like Quake 3 Arena on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM. Slow as HELL. It's not lag, it's just choppiness. I swear the game is running at a constant 10 frames per second. Before the patches, it ran damn smooth considering how crappy my computer is. I turned the graphics to LOW or OFF, and it is still choppy. I have all of the drivers and everything. My computer meets the requirements for Luclin (and I don't even have it yet.) Why, in the name of Tunare, did Verant decide to make this game so technologically advanced? If I have to play EQ at a crap 10-frames per second, then ***** it. There is no way that I can do that. Verant needs to come out with a Voodoo Card driver that fixes all of this slowdown. Well, there's my ********** I know Verant is working hard to solve all of this, but they should have planned in advance a bit more.

people, im telling you it isnt your graphic cards, your ram or even your memory. The only thing you should really have to access the game is the Direct X , V. 8.1 IF you are getting the message " 3-D devices not found" or something like that, you need to download the direct X. After this you should be able to actually attemp to log in. Heres where the main problem occurs. i dont have the expansion, yet, it seems to me that people with and without are having some sort of problem.

Waiting for then to advise us to reformat our HD's and reinstall all software, pref on a computer that will only run EQ and Windows. I think we can then grab our pitchforks and torches and storm their castle.

Honestly, I think we all seriously need to calm down. I'll admit that even I was quite frustrated by this problem, especially after spending a good portion of my paycheck to upgrade my computer so I could play the new expansion. I tried repeatedly to log on only to have teh game freeze on me, forcing me to reboot. From what I've seen, if you're having considerable trouble with EQ since installing the expansion, try getting rid of the expansion. Yes, for me that meant uninstalling Everquest entirely and reloading the trilogy, but now EQ runs just as it did before the servers dropped on Monday, in fact, considerably better since I did all that upgrading. In my eyes, being able to play a Vah Shir is far less important than being able to play at all.

I think all that is needed is patience, as a few posters have already hinted at, since this is a rather enormous amount of upgrading that Verant had to do. As with many others, I also agree that the expansion needed a bit more testing before it became public, but since it's already on the shelves, and people are buying it, there's not much to be done to that end. All we can hope for is that the numerous and to say the least extremely aggrivating bugs are worked out in a timely manner.

And to those who say Verant is only interested in money, I'd hartily agree, and if Verant wants to continue to make money, they obviously have to fix these problems or they'll lose their customers. Since I'm fairly sure that EQ is their main source of revenue, it will happen. All we need to do is wait.

Obuda Buda
Warrior of 21 seasons
Innoruuk Server

Edited, Wed Dec 5 22:50:55 2001

ok guys all of u that still have problems, i have the cure if it still says 3d devices not found go buy a better video card it help me i bought it and there is no more problems with my EQ login now



hope this helps ur problem

Verant and EA are very simular. EA put a CRAP of a end of a good series and tried patching it still does not work.......Ultima IX.......CRAP. Well Verants new client interface......CRAP.....no problems with anything else

Ok folks, let's all take a moment and relax. I've been experiencing the same problems as most of you, black text boxes, getting kicked off, and naked NPC's and PC's. Well, I just bought more memory for my laptop, and was pretty pissed that after fighting lines for a copy of SoL and spending money and time ******** with my computer it wasn't working. BUT, I calmed down, and found what I believe to be the solution. IF, you have about what the booklet that came with the game recommends for hardware, this should work (yes, even with 256 ram).

1) Create a new folder on your desktop.
2) In this folder download a copy of DirectX 8.1, and your most recent video and sound drivers. But, do NOT install them yet.
3)Set your video adapter to the Standard Display Adapter (VGA). This is an example of how to do this...
a)Go to Control Panel
b)Double click on Display
c)Click on Settings tab, then click on the Advanced button.
d)Click on the Adapter tab, then click Change.
e)Click Next.
f)Select the radio button (little circle) next to the option for Display a list of all drivers and click Next.
g)Select the button next to the option for Show all hardware.
h)Scroll to the top of the list and select (standard display types).
i)It will ask if you really, really want to use this adapter. Choose Yes.
4)Now install DirectX 8.1 from the new folder on your desktop, and reboot your computer.
5)Now install both your video and sound drivers from the folder on your desktop.
6)Reboot, and now try EverQuest.

Note: If you have a laptop, the video card may not be capable of handling EverQuest now. Most laptop video cards are integrated in the motherboard, and are not upgradable. In other words, if you have a laptop, you MIGHT be screwed. Sorry for the bad news, but I have a laptop too and am still trying to deal...
Hope this helps, print this before you try to follow these instructions, and good luck!

I can get in but 1.4 or the right side of my screen is on the left and i cant see any faces,grrr
whats up with that

I'm POed too, that fricken music that CNN plays during thier weather update is annoying and distracting, sounds like they are killing cats extremely slow. Can barely pay attention to the news caster giving the update...oh wait sorry wrong thread. :)