flashing/popping/odd peaks on models...

[boubin]

<p>Among many issues I have with eq2 right now this might be most serious. I make it to the charater select screen fine , intro plays fine yada but whao nothing is fine at character select. There is flashes and popping and odd points coming off some models. It looks like when you have a LOD issue when you are animating and one surfacing is fighting another to see which one is in front but on a massive scale. It makes reading the text in options almost impossible. Changing any of the graphics settings does nothing. It seems to be an asset problem if I say so myself because it seems to mostly becoming from the background not the interface borders/buttons and character but I could and may be wrong.</p><p>Pertinent issues:</p><p>Computer is only used for eq2, only change; besides patches for security and driver updates ;on it in last two years was eq2 was removed and now just freshly installed.</p><p>System is E6850 core2 duo with latest Intel ICH9 drivers for motherboard and latest bios</p><p>nvidia 8800 ultra with 296.10 drivers plus latest bios</p><p>monitor Sony G410 with latest drivers</p><p>OS is Win XP Pro with sp3 and all other patches.</p><p>Been through dxdiag and no issues, been through msinfo32 and no issues, been through error report and none, been through services and nothing untorrid running. Been through regedit with a fine piece comb and nothing malicious in there either. Just to easy the minds of diagnosers here I ran all the programs told to MSERT, Hitman pro 3, combofix, housecall and eset online scanners, ccleaner and even ran my suite of sysinternal programs to see if I could see anything out of place nothing so I am stumped. Any ideas from the experts in computers/everquest or red name?</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Just going off of how you describe it, those sound like graphical anamolies.  These are most typically caused by overheating or damaged hardware.  Have you run any utilities to monitor CPU and GPU temperatures?  Nvidia has their System Tools and their are a great deal of free utilities to monitor the temperature of your E6850.  The best time to take a reading of the temperatures is when you are looking at the anamolies on the character select screen.</p>

[boubin]

<p>I have updates, hooray!?! First I tried other games to rule out failing hardware. Quakelive since it was easiest went first and could crank all settings and no glitches. Next went games I had semi handy being HF2 and SC2 which both ran without a glitch. So I entered eq2 and tried to take screenshots of the issue but the glitches do not show in screenshots.</p><p>Now to answer your question, e6850 idle is 41C, ingame of eq2 it is 48c but flickers alittle from 47-49 but the monitor is only +1C accuracy so good enough. Getting a good hit with the last on the card is harder but I can hold my finger on the heatpips all of them all over for as long as I want without an real sensation of burn. Very warm is as hot as they get. This is really a bare bones systems only for eq2 with cooling a big issue so I didn't think it would be that.</p><p>Need addition, I can now click on the "Play" button after file asset check/update and game wont run, if I click again says already running! wheeee!</p><p>**UPDATE**</p><p>Well a friend was able to login with their silver account but still has odd image flickers but hey the play button works for them!</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>What were the GPU temperatures?</p>

[boubin]

<p>I don't normally trust software temp readings from sensors since I don't know thier porgramming or the placement or specs of the sensors themselves but I could't find a way to hit the heatspreader, or close to it on the heatpipes with the laser for real temp readings. So I bit the bullet for you and had to use nvidia's system tools monitor. Since the character screen is as far as I can get because of the texture pop/flashing the temp from that screen only reads 53C. Just incase the side inlet fan and back exhaust fans I had placed for the card I turned them up a notch on RPM.</p><p>I know this isn't eq2 but I ran 3d Mark06 so I could get a more through temp reading and peak was 61C.</p><p>Hope that sheds some light into the situation , thank you</p>

[boubin]

<p>Decidying to cancell account since no resolution insight and it is pointless to waste money when the game is unplayable. Playing on a laptop which is only barely enougth of a computer to solo is again not worth it. Thankfully a new RPG game has just come out and plays perfect. Once again proving it wasn't video card as my temp showed time and time again. As all the diagnostic software showed time and time again. I do not understand how a computer can play EQ2 fine for years then I leave for a bit and a couple expansions come out and then it is unaplayed now. Almost like you are trying to push players to the other companying which will stay nameless but atleast their products work even ones which have been out less than a week and should be buggy. Not ones which have been out for years.</p><p>disappoint ex-eq1/eq2 player</p>