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I thought I was joining in on the fun....but apparently my comp does not want to cooperate with the game or me...all of You who have seen the Final Fantasy 11 site know I am Maci on Valefor.

First IT was a graphics card...no prob. I go out and get a new graphocs card ATI Radeon 9k series. Only to find out my Comp and the graphics card do not get a long (I run a AMD). So i was like ok slight set back, went out the next day and got a nVidia GeForce 5200. Yesterday I fight BSOD....today. I got it to work finally, and much to my horror and chagrin the graphics are completely wonky. So I reformat and Reinstall XP, now I am getting crashes and dumps to Desktop. I am not doubting it is a good game but I refuse to play a game that WILL NOT be stable on my comp. Sorry for the rant but I am honestly fed up with this...

If you end up not being able to fix it, check out Anarchy Online - they offer a FREE year's acct. It's old school now, but it's still a cool game. If u never played it in the old days, it's worth a look. If u played it ages ago, they've worked the bugs out - and - well, I hope u can get yer machine running EQ2. GL.

firstly what are your system specs? it's difficult to tech a computer when it's at your desk.. let alone from a text description so specs would help.

secondly, despite the "recommendations" on the game box.. EQ2 has some pretty steep req's for the graphics to be pretty solid looking and maintain an acceptable frame rate.

for the record my specs are:
P4 3.2 ghz 800 mhz FSB
Asus P4P 800 DLX mommyboard
1GB PC3200
Ati Radeon 9600XT
and of course the requisite 7200 RPM drives of stupid size.

normally in EQ2 I run the graphics settings at "Balanced" with cloth simulation on. If I'm in game particularly for taking pictures I'll take it up to "High Quality" with cloth sim on... I *CAN* play it at that mode in most areas (and often do) but if it's a high server load night or if I'm in the more evil zones with respect to lag the HQ setting can stress my box.

Some areas are just evil to systems.. such as the peat bog.. which is where I run "balanced" and it seems to do ok.. fortunately I don't have to go in there for many reasons.

Codswhollop, i am running 2 PCs with 512 RAM one of which is on Dial-up, If you have 512 RAM you can run the game with almost zero lag in the Xp zones.

hmm.. only thing I see in there that could be a problem of note is the processor itself.. the Duron is a solid processor but it's not nearly as strong as the Athlon XP's or Athlon 64's...

will EQ2 run? yes.. but due to the processor I simply cannot guess what the graphics will look like.. only machine I've ever seen it running on slower than mine was a 2.8 P4.. which isn't much slower and that box had the 9800 Pro 256 and 1GB of Corsair Ram which EASILY made up the speed difference. That said.. let's see...

you've dl'ed drivers, how about updating DirectX? sometimes that is helpful with new drivers.

what OS are you running? if it's windows XP and you have SP2, the security features of the firewall in SP2 *can* prevent online games from connecting if it's setup too strict.. it's something to look into if you're running WINXP SP2.

I know you're not 100% certain of the motherboard model.. but if you can somewhat easily figure it out.. perhaps the maker of the board has firmware updates available for download?

just posing possibilities.. anywho, hopefully it's something simple like directX or a windowsupdate download.

good luck.

edit: OHH yes and check your video card with the main EQ2 site.. there are a few cards (most notibly the Nvidia 440MX) that don't work with EQ2.. a friend of mine had to update his card and I told him to get a radeon, he's running a 9200 now and says it does fairly well.

Edited, Mon Dec 20 12:24:11 2004 by Iaini

i'm just adding my input after reading this thread...

i am running an Nvidia GForce FX 5200 also but i have had the game running for hours with absolutely no crashes. in fact, i've never crashed.
as far as system specs, i'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3200, 768MB DDR 2700 ram, ECS 755A mobo, 550watt power supply, Win XP Pro SP2, all the latest drivers and patches

i'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say it is your processor. i used to have crashes with certain games, ie. Morrowind cause of the high end graphics. even when i dummied it down, i would still get crashes. that is, until i upgraded my mobo and processor.

just my 2cp

Most of it seems system problems to me, but anyhow. 1200 AMD Duron, your barely meeting minimums here I think, but should be ok, my main concern was the Nvidia card and your problems with the AMD... what kind of AGP port do you have? Video cards might not be getting the juice they need, unlikely but possible. 2nd, My friend tried to run it on a 1200 AMD system with an NVidia and had tons of problems, we think its the video drivers, he said NVidia is aware of the problem and working on it, but I think he has a Geforce 4 line of cards.

I have no problems with my 5200. That doesn't mean that I don't want to upgrade (and intend to sometime after christmas), but it's hardly unplayable.