everquest lock up

Before Vista, I did not have this problem. When my screen saver comes on, I cannot get back to EQ. It locks up totally and most of the time I have to restart Vista entirely to be able to play EQ - in other words, using the Task Manager to end the program does not work.
Also, on some zone changes, I also freeze in EQ entirely.
My system: Pentium 4 - 3.4 Ghz 1Gb Memory GeForce 6600 w/256 Mb memory
Thanks! Claire aka Kalela on The Tribunal

All I have are 2 suggestions, 1. disable your screen saver. not needed, and if you are going to be away from your computer for some time, turn the monitor off (save some energy) 2. Try defraging the drive, you'd be surprised at how quickly the drive can become fragmented in just a short amount of time. I would also sugest, If you are running everquest at maximum graphics, choke it down a bit. I run everquest 2, and don't have much trouble, other then the opening video not playing and just being a black screen, during game play. Tho I can not run it at balanced graphics right now. The lag is just too horible, I have had fights, where 2 seconds in to the fight, everything seems to freeze every other second, and then find myself dead when the fight is over. This doesn't happen when i have it set at extreme preformance. Again, This I would have to chalk up to the way sony implements directx 9 in its games, as well as the current state of video drivers. With this being a beta, you would think that ati would have faster driver updates, last update was may 23rd. Especially when they can come out with normal catalyst updates every month.
"BajaDiver" wrote:

Before Vista, I did not have this problem. When my screen saver comes on, I cannot get back to EQ. It locks up totally and most of the time I have to restart Vista entirely to be able to play EQ - in other words, using the Task Manager to end the program does not work.
Also, on some zone changes, I also freeze in EQ entirely.
My system: Pentium 4 - 3.4 Ghz 1Gb Memory GeForce 6600 w/256 Mb memory
Thanks! Claire aka Kalela on The Tribunal