stuckcharactersFollow

Ok. Got another "What's up with that??"

Quite often, probably at least a couple of times a day, I am either zoning or camping and find myself looking at the server screen when I shouldn't be. If I camp I expect to see the screen with all my toons as it waits for me to choose who to play next. If I am zoning, I expect to end up in the zone I tried to enter. Instead, I see the server screen and when I click to play on that server I see a box come up telling me I still have a toon active in the game and I can't play more than one at a time.

This used to happen every rare once in a while, but in the last few months it is getting more and more common. So common they now have a chat room specifically to handle those of us with stuck toons. I've done the "bug report" in the game several times.

Does anyone know what the heck is behind this and do they have ANY clue what to do about it? It really sucks when I have played my main to close to the time to leave for work and then try to switch to trader, only to find what should have taken me 2 minutes turns into 15......

Actually, you dont have a stuck character problem. You have a crash to server selcet while zoning problem. Have had this happen to me in the past and it is usually NOT an EQ problem, but something with your computer itself. Do a full file scan to be sure however. After that, I would say the problem is most likely something with memory, something with your vid card, or a windows issue. When I had this happening a lot I just reloaded Windows xp and most of the issues went away.

I find after I switch characters and/or accounts several times this happens to me. Generally I will rerun patcher or have to anyway.

Also if I leave my trader up for several hours, then switch characters a few times, it happens. When I log off trader now, I usually reboot the game from patcher to play.

I agree with Dot that this may be the problem. I have had this exact same problem, on several different computers, since I started playing EQ a little over a year ago.

I think it is related to your video card and/or driver, but this is a complete guess. I only say this because I have had my driver go out and had to restart EQ (although I was actually still in-game, but could not see anything). This driver issue has only ever occured after lengthy periods with my trader logged on.