Crash to Desktop

[Ikeren]

Every solution I tried ended up with me crashing every time I got to char selection.

I did a full clean reinstall and didn't touch my CPU or Compatability, and was able to log in fine.

The first thing that happened? I got a plane of hate group, ~10 minutes in, no-error crash to desktop as if I had hit alt-F4.

The rest of the night went fine, which was nice.

This is all playing on PEQ (but I experienced this problem on The Realm) as well.

My video drivers are set to automatically update; presumably that's working, so presumably their up to date.

I only run one instance, and my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1501. I'm not really good (or competent) with this sort of thing; one of my friends told me I know just enough to be dangerous and that is accurate.

Plane of Hate seems more hostile to this problem then other zones I've been in. Not sure why.

[HurtinuDaily]

I have the same problem on VTZ, every once in a while EQ just closes completely for no apparent reason.
- Clean computer no virus's / spyware
- newest Nvidia drivers / Core 2 duo cpu / new sound drivers (tried disabled sound)
- all windows updates (vista)
- lots of memory to spare.
- tried with and without winEQ and EQplaynice


The only thing I noticed that has any effect on this is rebooting. If I reboot it will happen once and then I will be fine again for a long time. I am out of ideas, I guess I will just accept it as normal, there are quite a few other people on VTZ who have the same issue. There is not even anything in the event viewer.

[Ikeren]

Sometimes I go a week without having it happen, but now that I've been doing Plane of Hate, plane of hate seems hostile.

I also know a mage that crashed out twice like this real quick in Burning Woods.

I think it's widespread but minor. I thought I was going to have no trouble fixing it; just change compatability, or download some file, but like I said, all that resulted in is me having to do a re-install.

[Ikeren]

It seems to only happen in certain zones; could we perhaps keep track of which zones so we can figure out perhaps what's causing it?

I've only seen it in Droga, Nurga, and Plane of Hate.

[necron99]

Ikeren

your laptop has an ATI videocard and you mentioned it is on auto updating, check your windows task manager for CLI.exe and or multiple copies of and shut them down. ATI is currently working on a fix ... I hope soon.

My random crashes ended once I shut down my CLI.exe and it's offsprings. No big deal really, just need to remember to do so after a reboot. Though the crashes only happened in Warsilk? Woods and Lake of Ill Omen. I have not been to the zones which have been mentioned thus far in this thread. Server I'm on, PEQ Grand Creation.

[Ikeren]

Had 2 versions, closed them; will let you know how it goes.