Available Texture memory 0 and freezes.

Damion · Post by **Damion** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:35 pm

I recently started playing EQ again after a 3 months break. But after I came back i seem to have some serious issues in some zones when running 2 sessions on one machine.

When zoning to basically any OoW zone, available texture memory drops to 0 mb and I start having freezes on the computer for 10-15sec, then it resumes to normal working mode.

I didnt have this problem back in December when i stopped playing. On the very same setup.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Im using Gforce 4 TI4600 128mb Graphics card, 1.3gb Ram.

Post by **Lax** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:40 pm

Keep in mind that the game is constantly under development, so there's no guarantee that a system that had no problems last year will continue to work the same this year. My best suggestion without having any more information (SysInfo.txt may help) is to reduce the amount of texture memory you're using, or increase AGP Aperture Size in BIOS (see http://www.lavishsoft.com/bios.php )

Damion · Post by **Damion** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:41 am

I have AGP aperture size set at 256mb.

Im using low quality on all settings. Only have 2 models + horses on.

Here is sysinfo.txt.

WinEQ 2 System Information
System:
-----------------------------------
Windows Version: Microsoft Windows XP/Service Pack 2/2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158
System Physical RAM: 716/1279MB
Page File: 2626/3054MB
Virtual Memory: 1948/2047MB (Extended: 0MB)
CPU 1: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ @ 1679MHz
Video 1: \\.\DISPLAY1/NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Video 2: \\.\DISPLAY2/NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Video 3: \\.\DISPLAYV1/NetMeeting driver
Video 4: \\.\DISPLAYV2/RDPDD Chained DD
Monitor 1: \\.\DISPLAY1 (0,0,1280,1024) (1280x1024) PRIMARY
Sound: Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE)
DirectX: 4.09.00.0904
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180
WinEQ: 2.07

Loaded Modules:
-----------------------------------
Module 0: E:\Everquest\eqgame.exe
Module 1: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
Module 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
Module 3: E:\Everquest\mss32.dll
Module 4: C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
Module 5: C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
Module 6: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll
Module 7: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
Module 8: C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
Module 9: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll
Module 10: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
Module 11: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
Module 12: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll
Module 13: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DINPUT8.dll
Module 14: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.dll
Module 15: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
Module 16: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
Module 17: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
Module 18: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2180_x-ww_a84f1ff9\comctl32.dll
Module 19: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll
Module 20: D:\WinEQ2\WinEQ2.dll
Module 21: C:\WINDOWS\Lavish.dll
Module 22: C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
Module 23: D:\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-EQ.dll
Module 24: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSIMG32.dll
Module 25: D:\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D9.dll
Module 26: D:\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D8.dll
Module 27: D:\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-DI8.dll
Module 28: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock.dll
Module 29: C:\WINDOWS\system32\hnetcfg.dll
Module 30: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wshtcpip.dll
Module 31: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll
Module 32: C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll
Module 33: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll
Module 34: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll
Module 35: D:\WinEQ2\EQPlayNice.dll
Module 36: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\MQ2Main.dll
Module 37: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2labels.dll
Module 38: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2itemdisplay.dll
Module 39: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2custombinds.dll
Module 40: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2hud.dll
Module 41: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2fps.dll
Module 42: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2map.dll
Module 43: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2bzsrch.dll
Module 44: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2chatwnd.dll
Module 45: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2eqbugfix.dll
Module 46: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2moveutils.dll
Module 47: F:\Winprog\EQMacroQuest2\Release\mq2twist.dll
Module 48: C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL
Module 49: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll
Module 50: E:\Everquest\EQGraphicsDX9.DLL
Module 51: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll
Module 52: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll
Module 53: C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
Module 54: E:\Everquest\dpvs.dll
Module 55: C:\WINDOWS\system32\HID.DLL
Module 56: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.DLL
Module 57: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll
Module 58: C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
Module 59: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
Module 60: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll

Direct3D9:
-----------------------------------
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600/nv4_disp.dll/6/14/10/5303
Adapter Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
Game Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
Current Adapter: 0
Available Texture Memory: 118MB
Direct3D8:
-----------------------------------
Adapter Display Mode: 0x0 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Game Display Mode: 0x0 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Current Adapter: 0
Available Texture Memory: (not currently available)
DirectInput8:
-----------------------------------

EverQuest:
-----------------------------------
Profile 5: Daiam
EQ Path: E:\Everquest
EQClient.ini: .\eqclient.ini
Patch: OFF Test Server: OFF Locale: us
Video Adapter: Application Controlled
Luclin models: 4 (+20 min RAM)
Texture Quality: INVALID VALUE 3
Calculated minimum RAM: 303MB (BASE+20MB)
Level of Detail: 1
MaxFPS: 50
Additional setting: VertexShaders=1
Additional setting: 20PixelShaders=1
Additional setting: 1xPixelShaders=1

EQPlayNice:
-----------------------------------
EQ Version: eqgame.exe Mar 2 2005 16:37:01
Foreground
Mode: FPS Limiter
Max FPS: 40
Rendering: 1/1
Background
Mode: CPU Limiter
Max FPS: 30
Rendering: 1/30

Post by **Lax** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:03 pm

You're using extremely old video drivers, I would highly recommend installing newer ones from nvidia.com. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.84.html

That may fix your problem, but... according to DirectX, you have only 118MB of available texture memory at the time of this sysinfo.txt -- that's including the 128MB on your card and whatever AGP Aperture. If this SysInfo.txt is from having a single session up, I would guess that the setting is actually set to 64MB rather than 256MB. If it's from two, I would guess that it's set to 128MB.

Damion · Post by **Damion** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:57 pm

Sadly, I know that my GFX drivers are old. But my GFX card wont allow me to update drivers to anything beyond 53.03.

If I install drivers higher than that, DX cant find DXdraw and DX3d acceleration according to DXdiag and all applications using DirectX wont work.

Oh well, I guess nothing can be done about the problem then. Good thing im heading out to buy a new computer next month. I had just hoped to be able to 4 box with the new computer and this combined.

Thanks for your assistance.

Post by **Lax** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:21 pm

With a ti4600 I would assume you could run the latest drivers, I'm using one in one of my test machines here actually, and it worked fine with DX9.0c and the 71.84 drivers and Windows XP SP2. I bet you could get it working on your machine for at least 2-3 instances of EQ (4 will be stretching it with 1.2GB of RAM, but you should be fine doing 3) by doing a fresh installation of XP SP2, DirectX and latest video drivers. Sometimes that's not an option but if you're buying a new machine anyway you could always try it after you get that set up.

Damion · Post by **Damion** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:41 am

Ive tried reinstalling and doing new drivers countless times.

I beginning to think its because i got a bad GFX card or something. It wont under any circumstances take any driver over 53.03. I must have tried 20 different ones by now, including the guru drivers - also after reinstalling win2k / winxp fresh.