Problems 2-boxing

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:34 am

Okies Lax... not sure whats going on with my comp now...

If I try and play EQ1 on my main account, everything runs great... but as soon as I try and load from my second account, both screens go black and I cannot do anything with them except hit alt-enter which crashes them out for me... It all started 2 nights ago while I had them both logged in over-night while sleeping... and I can alt-tab out of IS and do whatever I want to... as long as IS isn't involved... As far as being able to replicate the problem, it does it every time for me but I have no idea what you'd need to do to be able to get it to do it for you... Long winded, but thats what I can think of saying... any other info you might need, let me know and I'll see what I can do to get it to you.

Slippery · Post by **Slippery** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:25 pm

I'm no expert, so take my help with a grain of salt, but I'll try.

-Post your video card specs, and the drivers you are using, version number and all that crap.
-The operating system you are using, version number, etc. (if XP, sp1 or 2?)

I'd also play around with your video card performance settings, as well as Inner Spaces' video options.

For example, right click on the IS systray icon, goto Configuration, find the "Game Configuration" tab, select your game, and toggle some of the video modes listed there... one at a time, testing your boxing in between (tedious, but effective testing).

Hope I could help...

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:06 pm

Hey Lax... there has got to be something wrong somewhere... now I can't get the mouse to work with IS on EQ1 with the latest patch ya did... gonna switch back to WinEQ2 temporarily and see if mouse working there for me... Only thing different between yesterday and today was the patch IS downloaded.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:15 am

Additional Inormation....

I have the FPS and Memory indicators up and running... at the EULA screen, it shows FPS around 62.0

If I press the ALT key, the FPS freezes.... and the next keystroke/mouse click unfreezes the FPS gauge and it can drop down to 7.56 if I don't immediately hit a key or mouse-click.

Ran WinEQ 2.12? (latest patched version) tonight, and though it was playable, was more lag overall then what I have in IS, so I'd really like to get this fixed...

As far as Slippery asking for Card Specs, I have a GeForce 5200 FX card with 256mb of memory and latest friver from NVidia... 81.94 from Nov. 14, 2005 which I had installed before the last EQ1 patch... Original problem of Black Screen occured while I was sleeping with both characters up and running at same time... so sometime early morning on Nov 18.

Operating System is Win XP Home with Service Pack 2 installed.

Slippery · Post by **Slippery** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:27 pm

any luck so far?

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:21 pm

asolutly nothing.... and since I can't get the mouse to click accept to get me past the EULA, theres no use in even checking on the black screen problem...

I can mouse over the Accept button, but it doesn't recognize im clicking it...

Slippery · Post by **Slippery** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:34 pm

Have you tried using tab to select accept on teh EULA and spacebar or Enter to click it?

I know I've had mouse issues in the past and that's how I did it.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:17 am

I've tried tab, enter, and all that jaz... unfortunatly, it doesn't want to work for me...

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:22 am

Well, so far so good... latest build has fixed the mouse problem... trying to load 2 instances of EQ1 up now... will let ya know how it goes

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:46 am

Thanks... now have both instances of EQ1 loaded up on IS and both in game and I can see!!!

Slippery · Post by **Slippery** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:58 pm

Nice, glad it worked out.