3 days and my crashing is gone what I did inside

[jonathanc29]

<p>First off system specs:</p><p>e6600 cpu overclocked 15% : 2 gig DDR2 : 7950GX2 running Version: 158.24 Drivers : P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Mainboard : Vista Home Premium 64 bit OS</p><p> First I updated my Realtek drivers to version 6241 (Seems the version that gets downloaded in the windows update page has issues and reports that it is not a correct driver for the system)</p><p>I then did the following reg tweak : If you try this and muck up your system not my fault! </p><p><b>Enable the Network Adapter Onboard Processor</b> </p><p>If your network adapter has an onboard processor, designed to offload network processing from the system CPU, it is disabled by default. This setting allows you to enable it and increase the processing speed of your system.</p><p><b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#system_key" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">System Key:</a></b> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesT cpipParameters] <b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#value_name" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Value Name:</a></b> DisableTaskOffload <b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#data_type" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Data Type:</a></b> REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) <b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#value_data" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Value Data:</a></b> (0 = Use NIC Processor, 1 = Disable NIC Processor)</p><p>Been running three days now with not a single crash. </p>

[ladyvengeance]

What kind of crash were you having?

[jonathanc29]

<p>had these two issues </p>1. When launching EQ2 after hitting "Play" on the patcher my patcher will crash instead of closing out and I have to force close the patcher.<b> </b><b><p>Problem signature:</p></b><p>Problem Event Name: APPCRASH</p><p>Application Name: LaunchPad.exe</p><p>Application Version: 0.0.0.0</p><p>Application Timestamp: 4615325b</p><p>Fault Module Name: EQ2Module.dll</p><p>Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0</p><p>Fault Module Timestamp: 46533008</p><p>Exception Code: c0000005</p><p>Exception Offset: 00081170</p><p>OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3</p><p>Locale ID: 1033</p><p>Additional Information 1: e85d</p><p>Additional Information 2: 0771c23a23e33efe9c269c193d0a0d3e</p><p>Additional Information 3: c7d0</p><p>Additional Information 4: c833d376ec4b28a87bcc4bb8289d009f</p><p>2. After hitting "Play" on the patcher I get a blue screen with the following message : PFN_LIST_CORRUPT stop 0x0000004e </p><p>The first issue happens 4 out of 5 times launching the game. The second issue happens 1 outta 10 times or so. </p>

[Tebos]

Orcinus@Venekor wrote: <blockquote><p>First off system specs:</p><p>e6600 cpu overclocked 15% : 2 gig DDR2 : 7950GX2 running Version: 158.24 Drivers : P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Mainboard : Vista Home Premium 64 bit OS</p><p> First I updated my Realtek drivers to version 6241 (Seems the version that gets downloaded in the windows update page has issues and reports that it is not a correct driver for the system)</p><p>I then did the following reg tweak : If you try this and muck up your system not my fault! </p><p><b>Enable the Network Adapter Onboard Processor</b> </p><p>If your network adapter has an onboard processor, designed to offload network processing from the system CPU, it is disabled by default. This setting allows you to enable it and increase the processing speed of your system.</p><p><b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#system_key" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">System Key:</a></b> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesT cpipParameters] <b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#value_name" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Value Name:</a></b> DisableTaskOffload <b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#data_type" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Data Type:</a></b> REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) <b><a href="http://www.pctools.com/guides/help/registry-settings.php#value_data" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Value Data:</a></b> (0 = Use NIC Processor, 1 = Disable NIC Processor)</p><p>Been running three days now with not a single crash. </p></blockquote><p>All Network Integrated Cards have on-board processor's. The server operating system version's don't have the DisableTaskOffload registry entry and only goes to show that dedicated NIC's is the way to go for performance. What I don't understand is that alot of server based computer's use on-board Ethernet controller's as well, and yet there is no registry entry with the server version of the operating system to make use of the NIC processor. Makes me think that the OS can automatically detect it. </p><p>What I did not venture to know is that the desktop version of these operating system's has this registry entry and I can see why since all desktop computer's come with on-board NIC's.</p><p>I have always advocated running computer's with dedicated NIC's for the sheer fact that they buffer and process Ethernet packets leaving other processor intensive instructions for the mainboard CPU.</p><p>Thanks for sharing your findings!</p>