Crash After Nvidia Driver update

[Enever]

<p>this started happening after I updated my nvidia GeForce 8500 GTS card to the latest driver. Every time I zoned into JW on my Illusionist right in front of VP, the game keeps getting an error saying the program encountered a critical error and must be shut down. it always does this, even after a restart.</p><p>I don't know where to find the error log on my computer, but this is really making me mad, and having me unable to play EQ2 ever. Any help please?</p><p>so far the game still runs if I don't click close on the error window, and it seems to run fine.</p>

[Enever]

<p>Found similar problem here.</p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=460528�" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...28�</a></p><p>Apoligies, sicne I did not know what the error would be called.</p>

[Jeyne]

<p>I had the similar problem with the latest nvidia drivers (191.07), on my system (OS : XP)</p><p>If i don't close the error window too, it works. I saw similar problem when the program is in conflict with the Data Execution Prevention of Windows XP.</p><p>Anyway, i check the drivers supported by Everquest II (<a href="http://help.station.sony.com/cgi-bin/soe.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=16089" target="_blank">http://help.station.sony.com/cgi-bi...p?p_faqid=16089</a>), and on XP, it is always 190.38 ... but more recent for the others system.</p><p>I reverted back to 190.38, so, and no more this kind of issue.</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>Greetings,</p><p>Yes, Nvidia driver releases have been really bad for a few months here.  I would actually advise using the 189.xx series of drivers until they release a better version.</p>

[Ocelot]

<p>And where exactly can we retrograde at?</p>

[DngrMou]

<p>I'd like to add an odd error to the Nvidia 191.07 zoo:</p><p>First, my system, in brief:</p><p>Vista 64, AMD quad, 8 Gig RAM, 1.2 TB RAID, GTX 295 Graphics card, with latest, 191.07 drivers.</p><p>The problem...I have to have heat bloom effects enabled, if I don't, most of the screen is black.  Makes no difference whether I enable SLI mode or not.  <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[DngrMou]

<p><cite>Ocelot wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>And where exactly can we retrograde at?</p></blockquote><p>Beta and archived drivers can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us">http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find...aspx?lang=en-us</a></p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>DngrMouse wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ocelot wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>And where exactly can we retrograde at?</p></blockquote><p>Beta and archived drivers can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us">http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find...aspx?lang=en-us</a></p></blockquote><p>That is the best location to download them from.  Please remember to remove your current drivers before installing the archived version, though.  Otherwise there will be a driver conflict that will cause additional problems.</p>