To add insult to injury I last night found myself to even so much as download various patches as they come through. Nevermind actually playing! I'm a low-end user. I don't even have Kunark or Velious and only really started the game a little while ago. I use a pretty crappy computer and still run windows 95. They had announced prior to all the changes that I would be fine. I mean, I have no intention of coming anywhere NEAR Luclin until I get a new comp, but now I can't even go to, say, Queynos Hills. This is really frustrating. It's the Holiday season, and I'm not exactly swimming in money, so I simply cannot afford to upgrade right now. So I'm left without my favorite stress reliever during on of the most stressful times of the year because I can't afford to upgrade to the new specs all of a sudden. And now I can't even keep getting the patches for when I do finally get back on. If I didn't have a bunch of friends involved I don't think I would bother.

Sorry, just needed to vent about suddenly being deemed unworthy by Verant to use their product, and, sneakily, being denied access to the account section. Funny that.

Dhazmor Deschain, Ranger, 20th, Povar (Well technically, nowhere at the moment)

Hey guys, talk about being so close you can taste it!

I can log in fine and all but for some reason the right side of my screen is distorted. If you know what to do about this, or if you're in hell like me, drop a line at chastetiltuesday@hotmail.com

I have a verto geforce2 mx400 64 mb sdram graphics card, And when i launch everquest it alwasy says that no 3d device found or whateva. What can i do . I have diorectx 8.1 and latest drivers. Email help to gremlinttc@hotmail.com.

Well i downloaded directx8.1 but my 3d card is some ati rage pro and i dont think ati has even written the page to download the drivers from so i think i am sol..heh life is different without eq...i actually see the sunshine now, but it wont be for the..the gamer in me wants to play... i guess we are all heading to doac now? i heard shadowbane is laying off employees like ultima online 2 did. i sure hope it doesnt get canceled.

As a test case, my specs. are as follows:

Pentium III 800
512MB RAM
Voodoo3 2000 PCI
High Point raid on Abit SA6-Raid motherboard
striping 2-40GB ATA100 7200RPM drives

I had trouble as did everyone patching on day one. Day two - patched easily in the morning and have had no trouble connecting since.

In-game performance is really pretty good. I occasionally experience lag-like symptoms, but the net meter doesn't show it, so I'm assuming it's my video card not keeping up.

To accomplish this I have the textures set to low quality, the dynamic lighting off and the resolution set to 800x600. I am currently waiting on a new Gainward GeForce3 64MB DDR card. Once I get that I intend to max out all setting and see how it goes.

Hope this helps.

my friend has not been able to get into game since he loaded the sol cd's. we found out that the files were not going into the everquest file they were going into another folder called sony/everquest or summtin like that.we moved all the files from sony to the normal eq file and everything works just fine now.it doesnt sound like many people are having that problem but i hope this helps atleast 1 person.

peekabo 60 enc povar

Well, I finally have no problems whatsoever. Of course I spent a few bucks in the process. Went out and bought...
Geforce 3 Ti500
Gig of Ram
AMD 1900+
60 Gig HD

If this is what you really need to play this game though I think Sony has another thing coming. At least it works for me now. Here Kitty, Kitty....

I just came here after having countless problems due to the '3d device not found' and got bored & ran dxdiag, ran the Direct3D Test and it failed on step 5 as was said in a previous post...decided to hit the disable button next to direct 3D and it said This will enable Direct3D on all your etc etc, hit yes, and it all worked! *falls over* Might & might not work for anyone, but worth a try eh?

I'm also having the "no 3D device found" problem, WITH DirectX8.1 on Win98 2nd edition. I've already re-downloaded and reinstalled DX 8.1, so skip that suggestion.

Running DXdiag.exe, the second 3d test brings this message:

Direct3D test results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)

Well, my 3D's there and has its driver, nice and reinstalled after the DX reinstall. So what's this message actually mean? Other than that my "3D not found" may be a problem caused by DirectX 8.1 rather than by EQ... Every version of DirectX I've used up 'til this one worked just dandy; figures EQ would require an upgrade to the one that's a POS.

I actually got in! Of course, I can barely read my text, had to turn off the sky, mip, turn the clip plane down, and turn off almost all my text lines to not go LD from the lag.

Fair warning if you get in. The lag is horrible throughout most zones. AMD K6 owners are supposedly suffering worse on lag. Verant says they are trying to redo code to fix this. Many players are stuck in zones, and according to the Chat room update, Verant "is working on it". Zoning now takes 3-5 minutes, enough time for a coffee break and a smoke. Bards still don't work, and neither did group buffs.

But if you want to camp that hard spot, now is the time. Few people out there, at least on Prexus.

Oh, by the way, you all will be happy to know that the latest patch fixed one major problem. You can now show your characters as bald, if that is how they are supposed to be. This is a major fix, for those out there with Luclin that had this problem. I'm sure everyone out there will be happy to know Verant has spent man hours to fix this bug.

em/dripping sarcasm

My suggestion to all is to not go anywhere near SOL (otherwise known as Sh*t outta luck). Do not buy it, do not install it, do not go there. It seems to be a hand grenade to most systems. This is not your system's fault. This is Verant's lousy coding! Don't go buy new hardware till you give them a week or two to sort things out. From the heat they are taking on all the webs sites, chat rooms, and phone lines, they KNOW they stepped on it. Give them a chance to issue patches and fixes. Who knows, they might even make the Luclin changes optional? After all, if half their player quit because they can't play, how long do you think Sony Corporate will put up with Verant's excuses?

My 2 cents.....