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EQ has been desktopping on me and I cannot figure out why. Its not my ui, i've tried my custom one and default. It randomly does it within 15-30minutes after logging in. I'm using Windows XP and have the latest Detonator drivers on my Geforce 4 Ti4600. I even went to the extent of formating and reinstalling my OS and installing EQ fresh... but to no avail.. it just did it again after it being fine for 3 days.

Any smart people out there have any ideas? :)
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Post by Ennia »

it does that to me ever since LoY went live
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my LoY got disabled on my account because Verant is a bunch of crack monkeys... :)
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Mine too Paru.. two different times now.
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Yeah this is second time for me also.
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Fuckers did it to me too. 2nd time
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did it to me also
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Post by Sparck »

I have the same problem with my second pc. I only use this pc for the occasional dual-box or to leave my vender gimp on. Desktop comes randomly everytime. Sometimes it's after 5 minutes, other times it will last a few hours. I don't have this problem when I dual-box, just when my gimp is in the bazaar. Very annoying.
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Post by Aslanna »

I don't have a problem with crashing to desktop but it does on occassion go into windowed mode (I normally play full-screen) and shift focus to another window. That doesn't sound to bad but it usually does it when I'm pulling and I'm unable to FD in a timely manner.

Oh, and I don't have LoY.
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Post by Xaem »

Have you ran Ad-aware recently? Could have some spyware thats doing that, but not likely, wont hurt to try though.
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nope, pc is adware and loy free
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Post by observers »

Other probs have been noted from the release of LoY.. iI personally had freezing lag in exactly 2 min. intervals with HUGE kernal mem spikes..

512 Mb ram later.. back to normal.
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On fresh format Xaem... no spyware at all.
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/showspells OFF
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Post by Ennia »

/showspelleffects off command is disabled since loy too
it's not a valid command anymore

come to think of it i desktop only when leaving eq on idle like bazaar gimp or going afk for long periods of time
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