falonor Report post Posted December 20, 2007 (edited) Details regarding EL are not of such importance , what I can say is that the problems described below repeated them selves in different areas , inside two different buildings of two different maps . Also had not such problems inside a cave filled with creatures,while attacking. Image got scrambled , some issue that was with 1.40 too - fixed this and it did not repeat . Game froze repetitively,independent of FPS - I did not grue nor timed out . Monitor flickered into black,everything was resumed as it was . Noticed that when it resumed , windows had configured hardware acceleration for the display troubleshooter as far as to " Disable all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations "( used to correct drawing problems ) Also got an error message from the ATI Catalyst . Thou I used minimum graphic settings both within windows and el.ini , nothing adjusted , problems persisted. Ocasionaly PC froze too,completely,nothing functional. Upon choosing " poor man " option , monitor went to black but did not resume as usual ; had to reboot . Read something in the forums similar in a way , but I found no similar errors in my logs only these : Error: Can't open file "quest.log" and endless " Unknown sound " or " Unknown battlecry sound " lines After rebooting got a Microsoft Error report , probably cause of the forced reboot. Choose poor-man again and this time Windows Crashed cause one of the Video Card's files , dumping and the works . Got so far two different system error reports plus another one from the Video Card Software : Windows XP SP 2 2002 Latest ATI Driver from it's roots ( downloaded from the oficial site ) DirectX 9.0 - ran all the tests OK All Drivers installed for all the components , except the on-board video-card ( un-installed all it's drivers , windows stil recognizes it and wishes to install at every start up ; left the " display-adapter " with no drivers , and disabled it ; did this so I could start EL - wrote about this in the previous topic ) Hardware : Processor - AMD Sempron 2400 + ; 1.80 GHz 512 MB of RAM ; Video Card - ATI Radeon 9250 Sound - Realtek AC97 Audio for VIA Audio Controller Fresh formatted partition , fresh windows instal , fresh EL download and install after previously installed all Drivers for the Mother Board , ATI Video Card , Monitor ; all drivers are certified , all devices are working properly and DirectX tested . Will put EL to some gaming tests and post if any new information . Am willing to answer to any questions that might lead to solving this issue . Edited December 20, 2007 by falonor Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
falonor Report post Posted December 20, 2007 (edited) In adition : Ran EL with in game's lowest settings , including highest settings - NO changes and no differences Used different Windows , software configurations , no improvement , same issue . Interesting is the fact that when I activated " poor man " , tried to move inside N Red-Mon Library, Game Froze , followed by crashing Windows due to an ATI file in system32 . Also , when activating only ATI bug option inside the Library , clicking did not move ; with both options moving around worked , but game froze and did not respond as well as everything else just before the character could make it's last step to stand in the spot I gave it to move to . If both options are de-activated , the ATI bug and the other bug related one , everything blocks down having no other alternative but to restart my PC manually Game also causes similar problems when zooming in / out ; rotating camera , changing perspective . And since then I am not even able to re log to EL anymore - got the original EL.INI file copied and pasted ( changed the resolution lower , the game did not accept any changes in res mode - it went directly to 800 x 600 regardless the res chosen after it previously was to 1024 x 768 ; next thing..when logging in , EL exits automatically ) No error logs , no chat log records. Can provide some info from either of them. EDIT YeeeY EL finally works smooth and almost perfect . Just a few minutes ago simply double clicked EL.EXE , logged , and guess what -> it runs like a charm. Here are the steps I made : - left my system recommended hardware - software acceleration ( it depends on each one's PC ) - had the original drivers previously installed ( thou before , with the same drivers , the game did not work ) - did not made any changes in the EL.INI before starting except to provide the install path for EL . simply logged in , and upon entering DID NOT zoom out , DID not modify any options , and tried to move around in the same place I had problems before with crashes and freezes - IT WORKED . Only thing is , if I over solicit EL by moving frenetically , rotating , casting , using items , NPC interacting as many actions as possible at the same time , I still get a freeze time for EL only , but far shorter than before. It really seems there are some areas of EL that present these issue , unlike others. I personally got troubles in Tarsengaard Storage and in North Red Moon Library . If any other events involving crashes , freezing , any kind of problems , I will simply edit and add them to the list so a wider spectrum of what is going on can be compiled to have a better overview of the situation ; it really might help for all players to report where is that they are encountering problems Hope this would be of help . Edited December 21, 2007 by falonor Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites