graphics and keyboard problems since patch?Follow

i had keyboard issues last night but they solved themselves within about a minute... try hitting caps lock a few times when this happens....

i think that worked for me....

Same here. and its harder to loot a corpse. it take like 12 clicks to open the loot thingy.

Ditto!
As with most graphic issues I've had, the key for me was uninstalling my graphic drivers then reinstalling the latest version. Even when drivers aren't updated, an uninstall and reinstall (and DX9 install) is worth the 10 mins.

Yesterday all toons and mobs were a matt black silhouette and the screen was like a psychedelic trip. All's fine now.

Yeah I have that dern black screen problem too. Also I play in windows mode, and it has moved so low, my task bar is in the way, which is very annoying, and even if I put auto-hide on, it keeps popping up in my way(how do you move the EQ window? nothing I have tried works).

My worst problem (and I have reinstalled the default UI repeatedly), is I cannot move ANY window, like chat, spells, etc., that was locked when the patch went into effect. Most of mine were locked because I hate trying to click something and drag the window around. I can no longer right click and unlock them. I can still right click the unlocked ones.

Then I zone into some areas, where my mouse almost refuses to function like lag, except nothing else lagging.

Put in a daily /bug on every problem, doesn't do anything maybe, but it makes you feel better. But they FINALLY got around to fixing the alchemy interface I bugged every day.

I also am getting that darn black screen when I go to windowed mode then the client crashes.

I am also getting flashes of the Windows desktop appearing sporadicly, for example the taskbar and the clock in the system tray. In addition more sporadic horiziontal blue bars that appear and disappear.

I have the latest drivers and DirectX9.b, so I just don't understand? And its not my video card, ATI Radeon 8500 128Mb.

I get the dreaded Black screen of Death also. I also run EQ in Windows mode so I can check other email and Allakhazam while waiting for a group.

I was in a LDON and the screen went black, and coulD not get EQ to close.

I had to reboot computer to solve the problem.

What can I do to solve this problem.

I have a new computer with an ATI Radeon Pro 128 MB All-In-Wonder Video Card. 1 Gig of Ram. AMD Athlon 3000+ processor, with 2 Seagate 160GB hard drives with Raid 0 Array. With a DSL connection. Everything was working fine, before Direct9x. Updated to newest drivers.

Please Help.

Edited, Mon Mar 29 20:56:18 2004 by Kaeerin

Maybe it is my graphics setup or something but everytime my enchanter tries minor illusion or illusion tree, I get a message saying 'You cannot change appearance here', get the illusion icon in the effects window, get rooted and appearance in fact does not change. Same thing with my Druid's Treeform. I tried it in several locations including some places I KNOW for a fact had been successful prior to latest Directx9 patch.
(Geoforce4 graphics card running Directx9 on Windows XP Pro)


Edited, Tue Mar 30 13:06:30 2004 by Dothammer

Edited, Tue Mar 30 13:09:23 2004 by Dothammer

I have had some of the same problems, with a few twists. On zoning I occasionally end up in the clouds (I Assume its the clouds as all I see is white), the only way I have been able to get out of it is to use my gate spell. In PoM when casting spells the mobs is a good distance away and before the spell even finishes, it's beating on me, it like the mobs are jumping long distance. In addition the lag anymore has gotten terrible.

Baron Badmerlin Hellrazor
Kingdom of the Blades

I've been having a problem with missing graphics in the game. Like, sometimes when I'm in PoK, the ground out front as well as half the entire library are missing the graphics. They're still there, I can walk over the see-through ground and bump into the side of the invisible library, but the graphics missing poses a problem for navigation at times. The glitch doesn't seem to happen all the time though, or does but happens in varying degrees, so it's not the zone files themselves... I know this because I've replaced Jaggedpine's files once already and am still having the problems more or less severely. In fact, most of the time, all I can see in that zone are mobs, npcs, buildings, rocks and trees. The entire zone as far as the landscape is concerned though, is see-through. I see a bunch of trees and rocks and buildings floating in a void. I did find out though that the graphics for things that are sitting on the ground actually go further down than just the surface that you're walking on though. It gives you a feeling of floating about 5 feet off the ground, kinda disorienting. I have a GeForce3 and just downloaded the latest drivers from nVidia. Any suggestions?

Oh, trying to ride around on my drog doesn't work very well either. As I increase my speed, the camera tends to float about a foot behind my character and I get that dissected look where I can see my own teeth and eyeballs inside my head, obstructing my view. I can't zoom in any closer, either. HELP!