Test Hotfix 5/9/2024 - New Bugs Only

Test server. Before attempting to log in, deleted eqclient.ini file. Went into LaunchPad Advanced Tools and ran Validate Game Assets. Default UI (not default(gf)).

Entered game in windowed mode. Hitting Alt-Enter (to try to test full screen) gets small window, "ResetDevice() failed!". Once, game locked up. Had to use Task Manager to exit EQ. The other two times I tried this the game just quit itself.

dbg.txt last few lines:

[Fri May 10 17:38:43 2024]00754:Setting up character.
[Fri May 10 17:38:43 2024]00755:Activating music.
[Fri May 10 17:38:43 2024]00756:Initialization complete.
Entering main loop.
[Fri May 10 17:38:43 2024]00757:Memory: Load: 53, Total Phys: 14257, Avail Phys: 6625, Total Page: 28593, Avail Page: 16393, Total Virtual: 134217727, Avail Virtual: 134207031, FreeBlocks: 129978223,2928471,1121086,132191,25575,4096,3334,2047,313,186
[Fri May 10 17:38:43 2024]00758:MaxTextures: 195323k, CurrentTextures: 194299k, HighQualityTextures: 194299k
[Fri May 10 17:39:08 2024]00204:CRender::ResetDevice: [0] Failed 32Bit Color, Retrying with 16bit Color.

[Fri May 10 17:39:08 2024]00205:CRender::ResetDevice: [2] Retrying without lockable backbuffer.

[Fri May 10 17:39:08 2024]00206:CRender::ResetDevice: Reset failed.

This has happened three times so far, so I can reproduce it.

The first 40 lines of dbg.txt would be helpful too.
Do you have multiple monitors or GPU adapters?

Two monitors


[Fri May 10 17:44:54 2024]00000:Starting EverQuest (Built May 9 2024 12:14:31)
[Fri May 10 17:44:54 2024]00001:EverQuest Configuration Type: RELEASE_NON_AVATAR
[Fri May 10 17:44:54 2024]00002:Timezone: UTC-5h00m
[Fri May 10 17:44:54 2024]00003:Loading graphics DLL.
[Fri May 10 17:44:55 2024]00004:Graphics DLL Configuration Type: GraphicsDLL
[Fri May 10 17:44:55 2024]00005:Graphics DLL Version 3.00.240430
[Fri May 10 17:44:55 2024]00006:Initializing timers.
[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00007:Checking critical files.
[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00008:Initializing WinSock.
[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00009:Enumerating 3D devices.
[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00000:Found adapter #0 - AMD Radeon(TM) RX Vega 11 Graphics (31.0.21905.1001)

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00001:Found adapter #1 - Microsoft Basic Render Driver (10.0.19041.3636)

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00002:Adapter #0 - AMD Radeon(TM) RX Vega 11 Graphics :

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00003:32Bit = 1, D32 = 1, D24 = 1, D16 = 1

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00004:16Bit(565) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00005:16Bit(1555) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00006:Adapter #1 - Microsoft Basic Render Driver :

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00007:32Bit = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00008:16Bit(565) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00009:16Bit(1555) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00010:Creating window.
[Fri May 10 17:44:56 2024]00011:Checking display driver version.
[Fri May 10 17:44:57 2024]00012:Activating window.
[Fri May 10 17:44:57 2024]00010:CRender::InitDevice: Using 32bit mode.

[Fri May 10 17:44:57 2024]00011:CRender::InitDevice: Using vsync 0.

[Fri May 10 17:44:57 2024]00012:CRender::InitDevice: Using 24bit depth buffer with 8 bit stencil.

[Fri May 10 17:44:57 2024]00013:CRender::InitDevice: HardwareTnL Enabled.
[Fri May 10 17:44:57 2024]00014:Using hardware vertex shaders.

Alt+Tab delay issue is fixed but still seeing ETW refresh ~2 seconds after alt+tab. I added .ini file to antivirus exempt list per a previous post.

The quest "Not of this World" seems bugged. I'm at the step where I need to throw the Jack Bomb at the Ritualist Danin. I can't get it to fully cast. I target Danin, right-click, choose where to aim, left click. It casts for a split second and then stops. No message, no falling ritualists, nothing. I quit the quest and redid the previous steps - same result. I've done this quest on other toons and never had this issue.

I have issues looting no-trade items for the bard 1.5/2.0.

I first found the issue with Tarn in Dragon Necropolis. I had the item in /advloot but I could not give it to myself. I could assign it and it would ask me if I wanted to loot the no-trade item, but it would not do it. No error message.

I camped out and logged back in and the cracked dragon bone was no longer in /advloot and Tarn was not showing up. I tried looting directly and told me that it was still on /advloot - I was the only person in the group (with the merc), so it either was in /advloot (it did not show) or not. I could only loot it by hand after the corpse expired.

I am now having the same issue with the Black Chaos Breastplate in Riftseekers.

Seeing the same behavior in Seeking the Sorceror with the Glob of Vile Bile. Right click item to activate, click on ground when swirly is green, nothing happens.

Just an update.

On live server using Alt Enter does not cause the ResetDevice, so I assume that was fixed from Test server or that part of Test server code did not go live.

However, as stated by others in other threads, clicking on a different monitor or otherwise doing anything else when EQ is in full screen mode causes EQ to minimize. But that is another subject already discussed elsewhere.