I am zoning excessively slow about 5-10 minutes per zone,this is very annoying. Anyone have any hints on what might make this better? I have not added the Luclin. need to egt my Gforce 2 video card, but i play with my other half who already had his and he's not zoning any better then i am.

I hope this will help out many people. After being fustrated the last two days and not being able to log into EQ, I finally did something that worked and got me to log in. I kept getting the "No 3D Devise Found" message even after I installed DirectX8.1 and turned Enabled on. What finally helped me was downloadeding the driver for my Direct 3D diver from www.ATI.com because my 3D device is an ATI Rage Pro. Depending upon your driver, you'll have to go to it's website and download the driver if it's available. Hope this will help everyone, it's certainly helped me. Also had the chat to go into the cht room and asked a GM about requirements for SoL. Basically all you need is a 400mhz, 512mb RAM, Windows 98, and DirectX 8.1 and you'll be fine. Heard that 512mb RAM cost around $70. Good luck to everyone.

Ok. I have a cable modem, and I just spent over 6 hours downloading a PATCH???? Not enough patch servers... what were they thinking? Did they not think that just having the game down for over 24 hours wasn't going to drive people nuts and have them logging on in droves to patch and play? This is crazy!! Now, most of us who had EQ, Kunark, and Velious can't even enjoy the game any more. Our old video and sound cards, which were just FINE before, now aren't supported by the new system. So now, even though I haven't bought the new expansion, I can no longer play and enjoy the game as I used to. Like others... I may very well cancel my account and just start playind DAoC. Not the choice I would have preferred, but if something isn't done to fix so many of these problems, so be it.

after many other problems I just uninstalled all eq software and reinstalled everything that took one hell of a long patch once the patch finally started but it eventually finished and I thought I was in but no now right after server selection I always get an illegal operation anyone know about or how to fix this?

I heard if i upgrade my memory without upgrading my system to Higher Operating System, say from 98 to XE i will get the blue screen of death? Anybody know if this is true

I have received a message "No 3D Devices found" when I loaded the login screen. If you have the same problem, download the lastest version of DirestX 8.1 and upgrade your video card software should solve the problem. But finding the site that provides you the video card upgrade version may take lots of time...like me, 3 hrs. by any chance you are using GForce 1, go to ASUS.com in taiwan website should find the upgrade version you needed.

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All I really have to say is that this really sucks (to say the least). But at least all you guys have a clue about where to start. I have no idea clue on the technical aspects of my PC. I’m pathetically fumbling online in an attempt to play and it’s getting very ridiculous. Download this, download that...I have NO clue what to do or where to start. I really don’t think I’ll be able to fix anything on my own. I just needed to rant a little. This is such a joke.

Harpeia
29th Rogue, Lions of White Iron
Cazic-Thule

GM to Verant: If we dont fix the probolem the way they want it, the people will quit the game!

Verant (Scrooge) to GM: Bah! Bah I say! If they must quit, then let them, and decrease the (server) surplus population!

I have downloaded and installed directx 8.1. As far as I know it was installed right. I was not able to find the latest drivers for my graphics card. I have the Voodoo 3 card, and 3dfx is no more. I was able to reinstall the one from my original cd.


What is happening to me is that I am getting an message that I am missing the DIMPUT.DLL file. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

I guess I am one of the lucky few. I have a 750 Athlon classic, a 16mb voodoo3 3500, Win 98. Downloaded 8.1, patched, and I am in with no probs. I have NOT bought the SoL exp.

My friend Alex is REALLY pissed, he gets to the char select, picks one and...... blue screen of death. He has a 1gig Athlon t-bird, and a 32 Meg G-force2, win 98.

He is talking about quitting......

Ernie

Ok here goes:
I have a Win98 Rage LT pro. I had problem Saying "No 3D Device found" after I downloaded DirectX 8.1. I solved this by accessing www.ati.com the maker of card. Went to tech support then drivers then found the one for mu specs. Installed and now eq works like a charm. I have yet to intall SoL so who knows what will happen then. I am very appeciative to my brother-in-law Daymos Darkcard who helped me solve the problem. Good luck to you all!

i guess i have to go out and buy a 3D card......because everytime i type in DXDIAG nothing comes up......does this mean i have no video card or what.....did the old EQ need a video card to play it....people i am really dumb with computer stuff.....so help would be nice.......thank u

after trying for 13 hours!! i finally got patched thru to eq, only to have the char select screen pop up with black boxes where my char's names should be, black boxes all over my screen when i finally got into the game, a pink box around my lag bar, and the sky flashing across my screen over the ground (makes sense huh?), after logging off for several hours while at work, i log back in to no problems with char select, no black boxes, but still have the annoying flashing sky on my screen. Now i admit i dont have the minimum requirements anymore (thanx verant, now i have to buy a new comp) I have a 500 celeron with integrated 13mb video card, 192 mb ram, dx 8.1, but i can log in and play, altho the flashing screen gives you a headache like you wouldnt believe, i can zone almost as fast as i could before the upgrade (around 45 sec to a min). So, maybe with any luck verant will figure out how to make the sky stay in the sky, and not try to appear over teh ground and i can continue to play this oh so annoying game in the near future, til then, ill sit at home staring at my computer and wishing

Betar 52 warrior Morrell-Thule

http://eq.castersrealm.com/viewarticle.asp?Article=3940

Sorry if it doesn't help.