My patching dilema

[DannMann99]

I have a question and maybe someone could help me out. I've recently reinstalled my entire computer, reformatted and started from scratch. I can install EQ just fine but there is something wrong with the patcher. I tried to patch EQ TRILOGY when i installed it but it wouldn't get past that old original patcher eq had, the play online button would become available and if i hit it the patcher would close and nothing would be said.
So i said okay, ill just install original EQ which i also have on a cd by itself. I do this, and i get farther. I go through the patcher and it says: patcher was updated please rerun everquest.exe. which i do, and i can patch for a little bit and it downloads some of that good stuff but then it shoots up this error: "Could not create DC at W32STI_CalcFont(): Error 0"
Now i have been playing eq for a while now and i have never come across this error, and what makes me wonder even more is that i actually download some things off the patcher before this error pops. Ill try to watch the patcher to see what file is making it do this but, i was just wondering if anyone had experienced something similar. I would have posted it to some EQ help site but... i haven't played EQlive in so long...

~Dan

Addendum:

I've noticed 2 things as well which i forgot to mention. When i get this error EverQuest.exe hangs. It is still considered up cause it shows it when i hit "ctrl + alt + delete". In addition i have noticed that my AIM gets alittle frozen as well. All the buttons turn black like and i cant open new see text in new windows. (kind of like when an IE window freezes and if you shrink it and maximize it again it will be all white)

~Dan

Sounds like Windows is running out of graphics resources. I searched for your error over at EQLive and they suggest the following (which seems to have worked for some people, judging by the replies):

1) Make sure your motherboard drivers are up to date.
2) End task on all background programs and goto Trend Micro's Site and click on SCAN NOW and run a complete scan on your entire pc.
3) Windows Updates from www.Microsoft.com
4) Reinstall DirectX
5) Reinstall your Video Card Driver

Might be worth upgrading/downgrading your video card driver first.

[DannMann99]

1) Make sure your motherboard drivers are up to date.
2) End task on all background programs and goto Trend Micro's Site and click on SCAN NOW and run a complete scan on your entire pc.
3) Windows Updates from www.Microsoft.com
4) Reinstall DirectX
5) Reinstall your Video Card Driver

Thank you for the help. Ill let you know how things go.

1) didnt try it yet
2) Did that, found 1 virus, dumped it, tried to patch, same error.
3) Updated everything i could and it seems the patcher is working fine so far.
4) Downloaded 9.0b, installed it and patcher still has error.
5) Re-Downloaded the driver for my card and os, didnt install yet

~Dan

In addition:
Since i updated all my windows stuff i have noticed that i can gain some headway into patching before it causes the error, i can download so much then it errors, but i can restart it and pick up from where i left off... ill see what happens when i download all of the stuff, i have about an hour to go. wish me luck

~Dan

[a_Guest03]

Option 4/5 seem to fix 90% of graphics errors.