Eqgfx_dx8.dll..'Tis infamous..

Haunted07 · #1 12-03-2002, 01:59 PM

Ok, weird problem: I play EQ (any version, emulator or regular) on the lowest possible screen size setting. If I make an attempt to play at 800x600 or higher, when I click to go to the loading screen I get "An error has occured in 'Eqgfx_dx8.dll'"...this has always happened. Recently, however, it started giving me that error when I try to play on the lowest possible setting! Only occasionally, sometimes it works just fine, sometimes I get the error. I didn't do something new or anything different. In fact, I've been playing on the regular servers instead recently, not the emulator. I tried changing around my computer's settings to 16 bit and 32 bit, and back again, I've restarted my computer many times (out of habit...when something goes wrong, REBOOT!), and deleted and redownloaded my Eqgfx_dx8.dll file.

I doubt anyone else has this problem, being that I have come to the conclusion that I am the only person on Earth with a Savage IX video card. (and I'm guessing that itself is my problem...besides, laptops and EverQuest don't mix very well)
But help is always much appreciated! Thank you very much.

cavemandjb · #2 01-04-2003, 07:05 PM

Well your not the only one with this problem. I have the exact same thing going on, quite frustrating. I load Eqwindows up and run EQ from their. I log on using this login name and it goes to the server screen. Then when I try to enter a server, it crashes with that same error (the 'Eqgfx_dx8.dll' has a fault or something like that). It just started doing this, I have the resolution set on 800x600. I have a celron 333 (<---bunch a junk

) with 192 Megs. I only have the original EQ and Ruins of Kunark installed. I have a different video card then Haunted07 though. Its a RAGE PRO TURBO AGP2x. It crashes when I load the Eqemu servers and the regular EQ servers. Some help on this would be GREATLY appreciated

And another thing off of this subject, yet along similar lines is this: When I first got everything I needed to play off other ppl's servers (Eqhost.txt, Eqwindows, and login name/pw from here) I would try to enter a server and it would say, You dont have the expansions installed that are currently enabled on this account, this may be because you moved the files or deleted them..blah...blah...blah, and then I could enter the server after their little warning box (this is because I only have the original EQ and RoK installed as I stated earlier) and the character screen would come up. Everything worked fine up til then, but when I would click on one of my characters and then enter world it would crash to my desktop.

Any help with BOTH of these would be great

Oh and props to the whole team here, you guys are awesome and so is all of your hard work, keep it up.

Roannin · #3 01-04-2003, 07:18 PM

I am having the same problem I havnt played on the emu servers for a month or so and now when i log in and click ona server i get teh same eqgfx blah blbah error, what the hell?!! I used to log into the servers just fine til now

cavemandjb · #4 01-04-2003, 07:28 PM

Yea, things had worked fine until just like, two days ago about. The exact error message, if it helps, is this:

EQGAME caused an invalid page fault in
module EQGFX_DX8.DLL at 015f:01a7be48.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=015f EIP=01a7be48 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0167 ESP=00a3f9f0 EBP=00a3fa28
ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=00000320 FS=324f
EDX=00a3f9f8 ES=0167 EDI=00a3fa10 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 52 50 ff 91 a0 00 00 00 85 c0 7c 4a 8b 44
Stack dump:
0184d3b0 0184d3b0 00000000 00000000 00000320 00000258 00000000 3f800000 0049f618 02aeb350 01850060 004acbce 005fb6d8 00000258 005fea54 004a5663

Thanks again

cavemandjb · #5 01-04-2003, 07:42 PM

heh, I keep replying to my own posts

anyway......

Their are two eqgfx.dx*.dll files in your EQ directory. One is eqgfx.dx7.dll, and one is eqgfx.dx8.dll. Not sure what these mean, but had a hunch that it had to do with the DirectX version you had on your machine, could be wrong, just a hunch

And if this is the case, perhaps it has something to do with the version. I have Direct X9.0 at the moment (the latest as far as I know) it dosnt make sense that this would effect it in a negative way, but I'm just trying to throw out something that might point to a solution.

thamaht · #6 01-04-2003, 08:46 PM

It is looking to me like a driver problem..
ATI's older drivers are virtually nonexistant, and I had a savage4 card and couldn't find drivers for it..

Did it work at one time, or has it never worked?

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cavemandjb · #7 01-04-2003, 10:38 PM

ok I got it to work

updated driver for ATI, didnt work at first, but then I changed the setting from 32 BPP to 16BPP and it works just fine now. Thanks for everything guys. Thats all it needed I guess.

Roannin · #8 01-05-2003, 06:20 AM

Sigh, mine still isnt working, have DX 8.1 i think and the newest detonater drivers for my geforce2 mx , which use to work fine for this but now all the sudden im getting the error

Gerald Tarrant · #9 01-05-2003, 07:53 AM

Ive also got this problem

ive got direct x 9
voodoo 3 agp 16mb

any help would be great

Roannin · #10 01-05-2003, 10:36 AM

Ok i fixed my problem, i went and downloaded the latest geforce detonator drivers and upgraded direct x 8.1 to 9 and it now works fine

cavemandjb · #11 01-05-2003, 06:09 PM

Gerald, bring the resolution for your voodoo card down, thats what I did (although I have a different video card) and it seemed to fix the problem. I brought the resolution from 32BPP to 16BPP and it was all good after that.

Gerald Tarrant · #12 01-06-2003, 09:36 AM

Alright i changed it from 32 to 16 and it fixed that problem but now when i hit enter world it just goes black and All i hear is music until I get sent back to server select

ozme · #13 01-17-2003, 05:14 PM

1 make sure u have dx 8.1 or higher im sure everyone does
2 i hade to check the fix eqclient.ini to get it to stop giving me this error
3 if all else fails it is your video card, voodoo 3 1000 drivers are outdated and will not work with everquest any more sory guys

hope this helps some of you, i reccomend a nivida graphics card i have a cheap geforce 2 but prices have come down so i will probibly be upgrading soon

Lyenu X`Arie · #14 01-17-2003, 05:46 PM

I used to have the problem with my other computer. It's a voodoo 3 3000 AGP. The problem comes when you use windows default drivers. So I recommend that you go to www.3dfx.com and download some thrid party drivers.