Nvidia Driver Crashing for EQ2

[Ahlana]

<p>I have tried different nvidia cards but the result is the same eventually the drivers crash.</p><p>I have run memtest and microsoft memory tester, my RAM checks out. But just to be sure I changed the RAM as well.</p><p>I ran a stress test on the video card currently in it and no crashing, and I can play virtually every other game.</p><p>The CPU is not over heating and I don't believe it to be the PSU.</p><p>I am running out of options I have tried so man different drivers for both the motherboard and video card.</p><p>BAH I say</p><p>Current Specs-</p><p>Windows Xp 3gb of RAM9800GTX 512mbOCZ 650watt SLI PowersupplyE8400 Processor</p><p>Anyone else having or had this problem and fixed it</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>With 9800s I have seen plenty of problems where the factory overclock is unstable.  In many cases it is necessary to use a 3rd party program such as rivatuner to lower the clock speed manually.  Sadly, that seems like the most likely cause for the issue you're reporting.</p>

[Ahlana]

<p><cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>With 9800s I have seen plenty of problems where the factory overclock is unstable.  In many cases it is necessary to use a 3rd party program such as rivatuner to lower the clock speed manually.  Sadly, that seems like the most likely cause for the issue you're reporting.</p></blockquote><p>ok let me clarify</p><p>I had Windows XP and a Nvidia 7600 .. no problems. I then upgraded to Windows 7 and the problem appeared. I then got a 9800 thinking it was the card... problem still going... downgraded to a 6800 that I know was working... same  problem.</p><p>So figured I would go back to XP thinking it is the new drivers in Windows 7... but problem that didn't exisit in WinXP now is happening still /boggle</p><p>Then I got to thinking it still hs newer drivers than I original was using.... deleted all NVIDIA drivers and installed the nforce drivers from the original CD and some older video card drivers as well....</p><p>No luck same problem. I have read online that there are some phantom drivers I might wanna try to delete when I clean up the drivers. And it ONLY happens in EQ2 so thought maybe someone else has had this.</p><p>EDIT: I have now run two different Video Card Stress and Stability tests.. and no crashes after 5 hours. And teh card got hot hot hot under the stress test maxing at 81c and still no drivers crashed. So it really is just something with EQ2 and Nvidia Cards (in my case). Maybe I should just get ATI lol</p>

[Rqron]

<p>At this point in time it seems that even older Nvidea cards are crashing since the update. It has come to a point where the game is about as unplayable to me and others as it gets. As i have said in a different treath my wife just canceled her account of five years for good she is soodiscusted and turned off.  This is NOT the way to retain players to an otherwise great game.</p><p>J.C.</p>

[Calangil]

I have exactly the same problem on a GeForce GTX 260 and the issue stays with the old drivers and the last ones. What gets me puzzled is I have palyed for a few days before the drivers began to crash with no apparent forewarning or instability. Anyway, I have been a player since the first month EQ2 came out and this time I am so cheesed off that I am going to give them one week time to fix the problem or my account is going. And so is my partner's.

[Rqron]

<p>Anyone else noticed that after they switched the battle grounds off the crashes went down to nearly nothing? I wish they would actually write code that does not break something. But what can you expect when the real software engineers are leaving or being layed off only to be replaced by high school drop outs because they are cheaper?</p><p>Anyways now to fix some spooky items left like why left click (one click) harvesting does not work even though it is all set up in the option menue. Gawd I have done so many different things trying to fix that darn client crash only for it to disapear as soon as BG get switched off.Way to go SOE wasting my and many others time and weekend.</p><p>J.C.</p>

[Ahlana]

<p>Well I can't say it is all them.</p><p>My one system is a 780i SLI Board running two 8800's in SLI mode and I have NO driver crashes on that system.</p><p>The other system the 680i lt with 1 Video card (tried 7600, 6800, 8800, 9800) has driver crashes, but ONLY in EQ2. I have tried old drivers and new drivers.... Last night I completely ran all Windows XP updates... defrag, ran complete file check on EQ2, updated NForce drivers to the newest avial and video card to newest avail. We will see if the problem persists.</p><p>And it is completely random, sometimes it can run EQ2 for hours, other times it crashes at char select. But once again only in EQ2. Crysis NP, Bioshock 2 NP, Various Stress Test on CPU/Memory/GPU NP (ran the test for 9+ hours).</p><p>The problem only exists in EQ2 and only on the one machine... it is ticking me off lol.</p>

[Tes Mar'a]

<p>I have the same problem.</p><p>I have an i7 950 CPU, 12GB RAM, GeForce 285 and Windows 7 64bit.</p><p>I have run windows mem test. and memtest86+ v4.0 for 9½ hours (ran while I was at work) and no errors.</p><p>I have looked at the tempereture for the GPU, and CPU and no problems there.</p><p>(I have had crashs where the CPU cores was 55C, and GPU 56C)</p><p>I have tried to uninstall all hardware and reinstall it all again (and tried with the new 196.75 nvidia drivers).</p><p>Beside drivers, firefox and EQ2, I had AVG installed (same problems even after I uninstalled it) And now I also installed Bioshock 2. And nothing else has been installed on this machine. (New machine)</p><p>And I can play Bioshock 2 with out crashing my computer.</p><p>That said then I crashed as soon as I log in to EQ2 if I log in to my characters that is standing in "Darklight forrest"</p><p>But I can log in to my other characters.</p><p>But if I in SF go to the Kerren island. my computer will crash.</p><p>If I stay away from there I can play for hours without problems.</p><p>I have also tried to set the grafik to extream preformans, but still the same problem.</p>

[Ahlana]

<p>Well I am RMAing my MoBo but I doubt that is entirely the problem. However I do not have the problem with the new MoBO I put in, but it is not NForce Based board... so maybe its a conflict between NForce drivers and GeForce Drivers... who knows we will see when it comes back from RMA</p>