Hmmm can't log on

[Macnair]

So my trader was sitting quietly in the bazaar, in a minimized window, while I was working on another project, and suddenly I got a bunch of disk activity and discovered that EQ was crashing. In a couple minutes it had finished crashing, and I was looking at the server select screen. I clicked forward to server select, and saw my trader bot ready to log back on: but when I clicked from there, EQ crashed again, and eventually made its way back to server select once more.

I went through this cycle once more.

I closed EQ and restarted it, and did this cycle once more.

I rebooted, started no other programs, started EQ, and did this cycle once more.

I did a full file check, and did this cycle once more.

So for some reason I can start the game with no problem, get all the way to character select, and then the game freezes and resets itself back to the server select screen.

Any suggestions?

[Samanna]

The default response is "check your directX stuff".

[Whitman]

What other project? Were you fiddling with firewall/Antivirus/Anti-worm settings? (Port issues)

Does EQ crash for all your toons, or just your trader? (zonefile issue)

Is your GPU overheating? (hardware problems)

[Veril]

run eqoptionseditor.exe and check your screen resolution - that's often a problem

[Macnair]

Well it works now, but it remains a mystery why it was not working before.

I logged in two other characters, they worked fine.

I tried to log my trader back in, and this time he worked fine, too.

Thanks for your help, all.