Other half got booted out to desktop for no reason a couple of nights ago, we were just playing normally and then he was at desktop. Came back in no problem, but was a weird kick.
I had this happen again last night (it's happened a few other times too that I haven't bothered to re-report). Last night, I had 4 accounts logged in and the one I had focus on gave this reset error when I used a switch to toggle my third monitor to my personal PC from my work PC.
Ya it happens any time your video drivers reset. Like turning off/on another monitor or starting programs with admin rights. Its frustrating when I am working opening what I need to do my work. Or if I am playing and have to open a job I was working on to check something etc.
Bump as well, getting the reset device failure since last big patch and it's rather frustrating. I can't figure out an exact reason why it's happening, just it didn't happen before.
I wonder how much the is related to EQ serving 2 sets of UI data at once while implementing new UI elements and csaling them. The data is being dropped sometimes, alt o - display - video modes = blank values for resolution when it happens. 100% of the chrashes I have experienced the cached data for the windowed and fullscreen resolutions were NOT saved or were drastically incorrect, like windowed 640 and fullscreen 1080. Why is EQ resetting these values to 640 at random? In 100% of the crashes, this has been the constant. P99 figured it out.
Unfortunately, this issue had missed the cuttoff date for Nov and has been rescheduled. The good news is that I'm working on it this week. Cross your fingers!
This happens to me if i turn off my monitors. I play in windowed mode and have no issues alt tabbing to itunes/chrome/gina but if my monitors turn off, instant reset device crash.
So when i play multiple accounts and alt tab, i'm fine so long as my monitors are awake. The second the monitor goes to sleep, one of them gets this issue (whether its 2 or 3 instances running). Random on which account gets hit with it. Like my characters are still logged in. They're still getting experience and buffs and able to die...I just cannot access the instance of EQ, and when clearing the Reset device () error, it treats it as a LD
It's too bad they don't sticky a "Known Issues" post in the Player Support area. It's been known for years that Everquest will have these Reset Device errors whenever you have Sound turned on in-game and you have HMDI Audio Drivers enabled and your monitor goes to sleep. It's not rocket science, EQ is an old game and when you suddenly disconnect hardware it's going to choke. You don't even need to be using HMDI Audio but if it's enabled and the monitor goes to sleep then EQ could hiccup. The solution is to use the internal sound device in your PC and NOT even enable the HDMI Audio Device (or do not install the drivers for it!). Or you can disable monitor sleep mode when you're playing EQ. Or you can just turn off sound entirely in the game.
