SoF Trouble

[trevius]

You can ignore that line in your EQ debug file, that is normal to see and isn't an issue as far as I know.

It sounds like you are still having a multi core CPU issue. Are you using an Intel or an AMD processor? Intel's seem to work perfectly without needing any changes in most operating systems, but AMDs normally need drivers installed, at least in XP or so for them to work right. Though, Vista should have those working already as long as your updates are current. Probably the reason that SoF works better for you is because it has better multi-core support than Titanium does. Have you tried going through the options screen before the login screen again to make sure it saves your settings properly before playing? Once you edit those options, you have to exit EQ and restart it for the changes to take effect. Might be a good idea to restart your whole PC if you haven't tried that already.

Oh, what version of DirectX are you running? I hear EQ doesn't like DX10 much.

[menstar]

Hi Trevius,

ok when I thought I was stuck at the character screen, I really wasn't. I could get in my server but I had another problem.

Listen to this, it is kinda weird. I thought I was stuck because buttons didn't work when I clicked on them. In fact they are working but I have to click repeatedly on any button for it to work. The animations of the character are too fast and my mouse clicks are too fast.

I finally succeeded in creating a character (by drilling on the buttons) and got into the game. When I got in the game, I noticed that my character is running way, WAY too fast. So, everything is way too fast at the character selection screen and way too fast in game.

My pc is very fast but I don't understand why eq is faster than it should be.

I'm running the game on a single core with runfirst too.

do you have any idea what I could do to make the game run at a normal speed?

thanks for your help

[trevius]

That is definitely a multi-core issue, considering the symptoms. Is this a PC that you built yourself, or one that was built by a manufacturer? And have you verified what version of DirectX you are running? You should be able to click your start button and click "Run..." and then type in dxdiag in the box and click ok and it will load DXDiag and show you your DirectX version.

I would try stopping the program that is forcing you to run on a single core, because it obviously isn't helping. Then, maybe try running in different compatibility modes to see if any help.

Also, it is worth noting that I had built myself a PC about a year ago and got a CPU that was apparently not compatible with the motherboard I had bought to use with it (though the motherboard info showed that it should have been). I had very similar issues to the ones you are seeing and nothing I did could resolve it. Finally after I isolated that it had to be an issue with the hardware, I contacted the manufacturer of the motherboard to find that the CPU was recently added to the unsupported list for that motherboard. And, that was my problem the entire time (DAYS of troubleshooting wasted). Though, when I was having that particular problem, I noticed major performance issues in all games I tried to play, not just EQ.

[Zeice]

He has DX10 if he's running vista, comes stock.

[menstar]

yeah I have dx10. But I also have the directx 9.0C components. My pc doesn't have any trouble running directx 9.0c games.

I have had this pc for over a year now and the only game I had problems with is eq. I can play any other game fine.

I know amd has a patch to solve that kind of problems but I didn't find anything for intel.

Any other clue for me?

thanks

[vales]

What videocard do you have?

[menstar]

it's a gtx280 from evga.

I tried using old drivers but this card being less than 1 years old, the drivers don't go back much.

What to do now, I'm wondering

[kfrench2009]

Sorry to necropost.

KillEverything listed the exact problem that I am having with a fresh install of SoF client. I can get as far as creating a character and pressing the Enter World button. At that point, I sit for about a minute before receiving a Disconnected from server error.

On my server, I can see where i connected and the world server is trying to zone me into my starting city (neriakc). At the point I get a client disconnected message on the server (not in active process - something like that).

Any ideas?

[gaeorn]

The client disconnect from the world process is normal. That is when the client is transferring to the zone process. Since it made it that far, you will have to check log files for the zone process to look for errors.

[trevius]

You can verify if it is your client or your server if you try using your SoF client on another public server that has SoF enabled such as Storm Haven or The Grand Creation. At least then you will be able to narrow the problem down to your server and not your client or visa versa.

[kfrench2009]

OK, here is what I found in my client log...

[Wed Jun 10 22:43:08 2009]00192:Initializing character select UI.
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:08 2009]00193:Resetting game UI.
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00194:Zone Connect -- 0 -- Received MSG_ZONE_ADDRESS
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00195:Zone addr [88.198.19.199:50715] received...
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00196:ZONING
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00197:Networking: Connection Closed [0] with 0 pending bytes.
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00198:Networking: using port [3693].
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00199:Networking: Connection Established [1]
[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00200:Connected to 88.198.19.199:50715...

[Wed Jun 10 22:43:12 2009]00201:Zone Connect -- 2 -- Sending MSG_EQ_ADDPLAYER
[Wed Jun 10 22:44:23 2009]00202:Networking: connection terminated [client:DisconnectReasonIcmpError,server:DisconnectReasonNone]
[Wed Jun 10 22:44:23 2009]00203:disconnected at C:\p4\EverQuest\live\EverQuest\EverQuest.cpp:17710 (char. select) DisconnectReasonIcmpError

[Wed Jun 10 22:44:23 2009]00204:Character is .

[Wed Jun 10 22:44:26 2009]00205:nError is TRUE at C:\p4\EverQuest\live\EverQuest\EverQuest.cpp:20972

[Wed Jun 10 22:44:26 2009]00206:Exiting normally.
[Wed Jun 10 22:44:26 2009]00207:Cleanup 1

Any ideas on that one?