no 3d card foundFollow

After the patch I now get the message that no 3d card was found and the game never starts up past the update screen.

I have a ATI 8500 and it is working fine. I reinstalled and updated my drivers for the card and also reinstalled diretx but neither has made a difference.

Anyone having the same problem or does anyone have a solution for me?

Thanks

David

It should work, I have the ATI Radeon 8500DV and I don't have any issues. I recommend reinstalling your drivers and then reinstalling directx.

Well I reinstalled dx9 again and my drivers. EQ worked after my reboots and it played fine. I turned my machine off cause I had to go somewhere and when I came home and boot my machine back up I'm having the same problem as before. Gonna try a couple more things but this is really strange.

I'll try the antivirus idea and I'll see if I have updates for my mobo. I have a soyo dragon so I imagine there should be some updates for it.

Thx for the replies

If you go to everquestlive and check the forums you should be able to find the threads for this problem pretty easy. It was 9 pages long the day after the patch. Almost all ATI cards were having problems. I'm using a 7500 myself. The fix to get past the "no 3d device detected" part was to make sure you use the ATI uninstaller to remove ALL ati software from your system. Then try the new drivers again. If that doesn't work, you need to install OLD drivers, because it was found that some of the new "recommended" drivers didn't work as intended, particularly the ME drivers for 7500's and the XP drivers for 9500's I believe. Then, in case you don't know how to do this, hit START>RUN and type dxdiag.exe. Click on the display tab. It SHOULD say "no problems detected" in the little window below. If it says "This device doesn't support d3d blah blah blah" that driver still won't work. Try an older one. After all that, you should be able to get in. If you run into a major framerate problem in certain zones (mostly outdoor ones post kunark, especially PoTranquility) then you have to add a line or two to your eqclient.ini file. I zoned into tranquility and was down to 1 frame per 30 SECONDS! If you have this problem, go into your Everquest folder and into your eqclient.ini and at the end of the "defaults" section add "HardwareTnL=FALSE" and on the next line "VertexShaders=FALSE" (or Vertexshading=FALSE, can't remember which), both without the quotation marks. Hit save and exit out. Start EQ and you should be golden. Hope this helps and good luck.