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Xordar
12-08-2011, 01:05 PM
<p>I maintain two seperate EQ2 installations for boxing (I get much better performance).  Ever since the patch this morning, I get the following error when I try to load a second account, regardless of which installation I am using.</p><p>I want to point out that I've never had a G drive on my computer.  Also, that directory has never existed.  It appears that a dev may have left a path in the build, relative to their system.  I've done this by accident myself.</p><p><img src="http://www.linuxdragon.net/eq/images/eq2_box_error.jpg" width="498" height="230" /></p>

TSR-JoshuaM
12-08-2011, 03:15 PM
<p><cite>Xordar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I maintain two seperate EQ2 installations for boxing (I get much better performance).  Ever since the patch this morning, I get the following error when I try to load a second account, regardless of which installation I am using.</p><p>I want to point out that I've never had a G drive on my computer.  Also, that directory has never existed.  It appears that a dev may have left a path in the build, relative to their system.  I've done this by accident myself.</p><p><img src="http://www.linuxdragon.net/eq/images/eq2_box_error.jpg" width="498" height="230" /></p></blockquote><p>The error is indicating a DX9 failure.  This isn't pointing to a path on your PC, its pointing to the internal path on our end and is accurate (i.e. thats not the issue in and of itself, its the DirectX Error that is important).</p><p>Lets update your DX9 and see if we can find out why your renderer is failing (these are client side failures, not server side, only the control is located server side, it is executed by the client)</p><p>Please download and run the file linked in the article below.  This is a self-extracting executable file that will prompt you to select a folder for extraction.  Create a folder on your desktop and direct it to that folder.  Once complete, open that folder and run the DXSETUP file to start the actual update itself.</p><p>[DX9] June 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8109</p><p>If the issue persists I would also like you to post your DXDIAG information for me, just the top 3 sections covering system/display/sound devices (and only as much as will fit in a single response).</p>

Xordar
01-01-2012, 01:28 PM
<p>The issue persisted after trying what you recommended. A lived with it until it finally drove me nuts this monring.  Since it wasn't happening on any other application, I just decided to reinstall EQ2 altogether.  The problem seems to have gone away.  It even performs better.  Nice.</p>