GeForce 8800 GTS - Modern Video Card Errors.

[Awkword]

<p><b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is pretty ridiculous, I have seriously spent days and days looking for reasons why my computer still lags in this game. I am running a Geforce 8800 GTS OC 320mb DDR3, Intel Core 2 **Quad** Processor @ 2.4ghz (Top of the line here, shouldn't need more, and if the game is CPU demanding like I supposeably hear, think about it.) 3 GB DDR2 Matched Physical Ram, 1gb Ready Boost and Windows Vista OS and a 500GB HD. I played FEAR and OBLIVION to their absolute maximum and didn't get so much as a spike in the graphics, so how does this make sense? I have looked in Forums on NvIDIA, EQ2, Sony, etc. and no one has a straight answer except... "Wait for a driver update or game update." </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial">What I want to know, is if anyone has any idea when any of these updates will be available?? I am getting pretty impatient that I spent a good 2500$ US on a brand new computer and completely tricked it out, and it won't even run the game I wanted to run the best. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial">So no more questions, I just want an answer, when will either company fix this problem? It's a simple question that no one can seem to answer straight.</span></b></p><p>Ps. The game also crashes in places like Qeynos Harbor and the Docks of Zek and says 'Application has run out of memory requesting blah blah blah..." I HAVE ENOUGH RAM TO RUN THE MOST DEMANDING GAMES OUT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!! Someone needs to fix this error!</p>

[BungFoo]

I have that same video card and I get out of memory error crashes if I try to run the game on the highest settings, especially if I set the texture resolution as high as it will go. On my system if I just set the texture resolution no higher than "high" the game never (or very rarely anyway) crashes. EQ2 is not multi-threaded so it gains <b>nothing</b> from that quad-core processor. Nvidia's drivers are threaded however so you are gaining a bit of performance there. Since you are running Vista, you should know that there are two microsoft updates coming in next weeks windows updates that specifically address performance and reliability (One specifically mentions the 8800 series cards and 3d games). You can download and install them now though. <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979/en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979/en-us</a> <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194/en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194/en-us</a> EQ2 is an older game that was designed when intel was telling everyone they would be shipping 10Ghz pentium 4's  in a year or two. Obviously that never happened <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> You should know that your system isn't actually powerful enough to run EQ2 on maximum settings. It takes 8800gtx's or ultras and core 2 duo's in the 2.9+ Ghz range for that. Sorry to hear you are having these issues. Good luck.

[MadBarman]

Awkword, the problem isn't drivers or your setup. The problem is the EQ2 application isn't set up to read RAM addresses over 2GB. So when your computer tries to use that extra gig of RAM you have the game can't access it. ...

[StoneySilen]

<cite>MadBarman wrote:</cite><blockquote>Awkword, the problem isn't drivers or your setup. The problem is the EQ2 application isn't set up to read RAM addresses over 2GB. So when your computer tries to use that extra gig of RAM you have the game can't access it. To solve this download and install a program called CFF Explorer. When you run the program follow these steps: Go to File>Open Open the EVerQuest2.exe file   On the left side of the window are various options, select File Header. A 5x8 table will appear on the right. The bottom right cell says Click here, click it. The 8th option down is App can handle>2gb addresses, click on the tick box on the left to select it and press ok. Save and exit the program. Now run EQ2 using the EverQuest2.exe file. This bypasses the launchpad but runs the game as normal. Running the lauchpad will detect a change in this file and re-download the original. You will have to repeat this every time the game is patched. </blockquote>What he forgot to mention is that SOE supposedly considers this a hack and can ban your account for using it. Your Quad does no good in EQ2.  EQ2 disabled multiple cpu abilities because of cheating.  So it is only as fast as one of your cores which is 2.4ghz which isn't all that fast for this game.  A single core 3.0Ghz will beat your quad 2.4Ghz.

[Sairusco]

Nitelen@The Bazaar wrote: <blockquote><cite>MadBarman wrote:</cite><blockquote>Awkword, the problem isn't drivers or your setup. The problem is the EQ2 application isn't set up to read RAM addresses over 2GB. So when your computer tries to use that extra gig of RAM you have the game can't access it. To solve this download and install a program called CFF Explorer. When you run the program follow these steps: Go to File>Open Open the EVerQuest2.exe file   On the left side of the window are various options, select File Header. A 5x8 table will appear on the right. The bottom right cell says Click here, click it. The 8th option down is App can handle>2gb addresses, click on the tick box on the left to select it and press ok. Save and exit the program. Now run EQ2 using the EverQuest2.exe file. This bypasses the launchpad but runs the game as normal. Running the lauchpad will detect a change in this file and re-download the original. You will have to repeat this every time the game is patched. </blockquote>What he forgot to mention is that SOE supposedly considers this a hack and can ban your account for using it. Your Quad does no good in EQ2.  EQ2 disabled multiple cpu abilities because of cheating.  So it is only as fast as one of your cores which is 2.4ghz which isn't all that fast for this game.  A single core 3.0Ghz will beat your quad 2.4Ghz. </blockquote>Ah bummer, in that case ill quickly change my exe file back (I have 8Gb of ram <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />, but I'm not interested in getting my account banned besides I'm not even sure if I got any performance increase by enabling that option)

[MadBarman]

Hmm I didn't realise it was considered a hack either. I found that solution on an open forum and there was now mention of it. Admittedly I don't know much about programming and just follwed the step by step instructions. If we could get comfirmation on that from a moderator as well as some idea of when EverQuest 2 will be updated to allow the use of more RAM. Seems like an easy update to me and a needed one with more and more people getting extra RAM. I'd imagine there is at least one SOE employee who plays the game has more than 2GB of RAM. <edited my previous post in case it is a hack>

[Aan'azyroth]

<cite>Awkword wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>'Application has run out of memory requesting blah blah blah..." I HAVE ENOUGH RAM TO RUN THE MOST DEMANDING GAMES OUT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!! Someone needs to fix this error!</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=364955" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=364955</a>. This is a *stickied* 18-page thread about this error, and it includes a work-around... Happy reading <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>MadBarman wrote: </p><blockquote><edited my previous post in case it is a hack> </blockquote><p>No worries, there's a TSR aware of this, and supposedly the devs are working on a fix...</p>