DDO's corrupting my video card drivers

Deioth

Now twice things froze on me resulting in a garbled logon screen.  I first safe moded, uninstalled the drivers, and installed the newest, and when it happened again the last known configuration fixed things.  Does this problem occur for other people?  My video card is the pile of shit that is ATi's Radeon X700 Pro.  I've never had the misfortune of having such a crappy piece of hardware in my life next to my PS2 (DISK READ ERROR FOR THE WIN!)



Any fixes to this or workarounds so that I might actually play the trial?  Or am I again denied some game on way or another thanks crappy engineering? (luckilly it was a Bday present so no cash out of my pocket)

Odysses

I had this type of thing happen to me on a different game a while back, ATI card too.   I am not sure what cuased it but it may have been that I didn't completely remove my old drivers before installing new ones.   Well after messing around a while I got it somewhat stable just by reinstalling but what fixed it was Reinstalling and putting fresh drivers of everything.    I think once you get corrupted drivers or some other sort of ghost in the machine it is much simpler to just re-install and get rid of the problem completely.  You may have better luck then I did by tweaking but I would recommend a Re-instal.

Sevenwind

Can't help you with the ATI driver thing. I own ATI card as well so far nothing bad yet.

However, have you seen this page to fix your PS2 disk read error?

arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/ps2.ars

Zorvan

Nvidia FTW!!! That is all.

Deioth

Odysses: I've done all that.  The only thing I have left I could do is use this drive cleaner program I have, so I'll try uninstalling my ATi drivers, use the cleaner, and reinstall to see how things go.



Sevenwind: The only thing I've not done with my PS2 is recalibrating the laser or something using equipment I don't have knowledge in nor access to.  The thing's been without it's case for at least half a year now and it'll remain that way until I decide to throw it out or find someone who could fix it.

Shannia

Question is, does this happen with other games you play?  Chances are, no.  I had this issue as well and Turbine would not help me fix the issue.  However, I did finally find a fix.  I uninstalled the game and have not had the issue since.  It is good that you are coming to forums looking for tech help, but Turbine has paid employees that SUPPOSE to be there for you.  After all, that is what you play them $15 a month for (unless of course you are on a trial account, then they won't help until you start paying... lol).

While DDO is a great demo, it is not a game.

Deioth

Yeah, fuck it, you all can reply if you wish but I won't be reading any of them.  My first group was boring and ran off most of the time to rush through (you probably guessed it) Waterworks.  All they did was chatter over the mic about how leet their characters were (I shit you not, they are saying leet as if it's a household word) or where they got their gear, and then run off in some random direction killing most of the enemies alone while I try to figure out where they even went.  I finally try leaving to repair my axe after I was told it became worn, but slimes respawn on me while my group is in some spot I've no idea how to get to and I die, so I ressurect, only to have my vid card drivers die again 10 minutes later as I try to figure out what to do and notice there's about 3 people on social at 12:30 in the afternoon on a Sunday that I would even be able to party with.



Yeah, time to uninstall...