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Altwight

06-26-2010, 02:20 AM

Every time i get near karnor's castle my screen goes black I can see names and thats it I have tryed updateing my drivers no go I played in kylong planes for about 6 hours with no problem and then suddenly screen just kept going black I did alittle playing around with and its a 360 degree circle around karnors castle inscluding the inside of the instance once I cross this invisable line screen goes black.

Adir

06-26-2010, 03:05 AM

I haven't seen that happen there, but have seen it happen in the tunnel on One Rock Isle in Sinking Sands. Rather - unsettling. There are a couple other spots that have graphics wierdnesses, as well (Nektulos and Feerrott).

vochore

06-28-2010, 05:54 PM

it has to do with the rain....at least for me its because i use aa as well as shader 3.0

Jaremai

06-29-2010, 08:02 AM

There's a couple spots that this happens to me:- In Nektulos Forest, approaching N'Marr's Ascent from the south.- In Sinking Sands, one section of the croc caves, and in another section of the zone in a different cave.The best I can figure is that these zones are broken up into mini-areas (graphically speaking) and my video card has a problem when I reach the seam of where a couple of these areas meet. For me, the environment goes pure black but I can still see my character, other NPCs, sometimes a rock or two.. but the ground and sky and a lot of everything else is pure black.Once I move a meter or two it snaps back into view. All I can suggest is to make sure your video drivers are up to date at all times.. maybe one of these days it'll fix itself.

Adir

06-29-2010, 04:42 PM

<cite>Jaremai@Guk wrote:</cite><blockquote>There's a couple spots that this happens to me:- In Nektulos Forest, approaching N'Marr's Ascent from the south.- In Sinking Sands, one section of the croc caves, and in another section of the zone in a different cave.The best I can figure is that these zones are broken up into mini-areas (graphically speaking) and my video card has a problem when I reach the seam of where a couple of these areas meet. For me, the environment goes pure black but I can still see my character, other NPCs, sometimes a rock or two.. but the ground and sky and a lot of everything else is pure black.Once I move a meter or two it snaps back into view. All I can suggest is to make sure your video drivers are up to date at all times.. maybe one of these days it'll fix itself.</blockquote>I get a graphics glitch in the same spot you mention in Nektulos, although for me it's like a wall of gray nothingness, whereas with the tunnel on One Rock Isle in Sinking Sands I can see rocks and mobs against a field of black. In the latter case, the direction I'm facing seems to make a difference, and it's less a line I'm crossing and more an area. I also have a graphics glitch similar to the first (wall of gray nothingness) in the Feerrott just east of the Eye of Thule, as you're heading east through the pass nearest the lizardman camp.The Nektulos and Feerrott glitches are nothing new, to me, having seen those for literally years. They do occassionally go away for awhile, but have always come back eventually. I don't remember the One Rock Isle tunnel glitch as having happened originally, but I could misremember.I haven't had a problem with any of the other tunnels in Sinking Sands, other than the one on One Rock.Definitely NOT a Shader 3.0 problem, for me, as my card can't support it (GeForce FX 5500), and it's been going on a long time. My drivers are current.I'd always figured it was a seam between sections of the zone, too. A little annoying, but being as it went away quickly after crossing over, not a huge deal.

Klive

06-29-2010, 05:51 PM

Adir. I do exactly what you do. Same places you described. It goes right away so I never worried too much about it. I have whatever video card came in my computer back in 2005. Kinda cool though, there in croc caves seeing my harvest node sitting there in nothingness for a minute till I move a bit.

Adir

06-29-2010, 06:07 PM

Update to my previous post...I figured I'd go grab some screenshots to give a better illustration of what I was seeing; however, the glitches I was seeing in Nektulos and the Feerrott apparently decided to take the day off, and everything was working as it should. Figures! Hopefully they'll stay away for good, although it wouldn't be the first time that problem went away and then came back.As for the glitch Atwight reported, I am still seeing a similar problem in the tunnel on One Rock Isle. It's interesting to note that, for me, this appears to be affected by the direction I'm facing. If I'm facing anywhere from North to roughly Southeast, the problem occurs. Once I turn beyond that arc, the game returns to normal.<img src="http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1375/eq2glitch.jpg" width="320" height="256" />

Adir

06-29-2010, 06:24 PM

<cite>Klive@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>Adir. I do exactly what you do. Same places you described. It goes right away so I never worried too much about it. I have whatever video card came in my computer back in 2005. Kinda cool though, there in croc caves seeing my harvest node sitting there in nothingness for a minute till I move a bit.</blockquote>Yeah, I can see how that would be handy! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />A little extra info, but my computer, purchased in 2002, originally had a good GeForce4 card (TI, if I remember right). That was replaced with a GeForce FX5500 in 2006 when the original one went down in flames. That, in turn, was replaced with the FX5500 out of my backup computer when it failed, late last year. Anyway, I've had the same Gray Wall of Nothingness (tm) with all three cards, for about as long as I can remember. I keep my drivers current, and stick with the version of DirectX which they tell us to. I don't remember the symptom shown in my screenshot happening with the GeForce 4 card, but after this many years, I wouldn't swear to it.BTW, apologies for the size if that screenshot. I'll see if I can resize it and adjust my post so it doesn't screw with everyone's window size.There, finally got it resized. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Jaremai

06-29-2010, 06:25 PM

That's the "other cave" I was referring to in Sinking Sands. Same spot too.The area of the croc cave in SS I'm talking about is around -1027, -214, -316. There's two tradeskill rocks that spawn there. Facing anywhere from NW to SW there gives me blackness.There's actually a whole swath of that tunnel in that area that, if I face a certain direction, it goes black.

Adir

06-29-2010, 07:33 PM

<cite>Jaremai@Guk wrote:</cite><blockquote>That's the "other cave" I was referring to in Sinking Sands. Same spot too.The area of the croc cave in SS I'm talking about is around -1027, -214, -316. There's two tradeskill rocks that spawn there. Facing anywhere from NW to SW there gives me blackness.There's actually a whole swath of that tunnel in that area that, if I face a certain direction, it goes black.</blockquote>I don't normally use that tunnel, so I popped over to check it out, and confirmed I get the same glitch there, as well. Unlike the other spot, which was a facing of North through roughly SE, for the croc tunnel it's SSW to roughly NW (probably the same as you).Just to clarify, neither place is one specific spot you stand, but rather a section of a tunnel that has this problem.Screenshot follows:<img src="http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9990/eq2graphicsglitch2.jpg" width="320" height="256" />

Jaremai

06-30-2010, 07:29 AM

Wonder if devs look at this forum or if its just CSR types. When I get home, I'll check and see what type of vid card is in my rig.. since I was forced to buy a bundle as an emergency replacement, I didn't memorize its specs. I'm curious if we share a video card model. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Will followup later tonight.