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Anyone have locking up/Freezing issue since 1.3 ?
Acaeus
Member Posts: 193
My account has been cancelled for 10 days, while I am a little tired of WoW (and Blizzard) the game was running flawlessly since my server, Eredar is/was pretty healthy.
Since patch 1.3 though, the game freezes very frequently. The screen freezes, nothing moves, its not LAG for I can still hear the game sounds and aparently the game is still running correctly (I can cast spells and such). Just the video is frozen, first the mouse pointer is still visible then after a couple of seconds it vanishes. Ctr+alt+del doesnt do anything, the video is really screwed.
I HAVE TO HARD RESET THE MACHINE ! I mean, on my book the worst thing, the worst possible bug is the one that forces you to hard reset the machine and thats the one I got with patch 1.3. 
Every time i have considered renewing my subscription this bug made my decision real easy. I wrote on the forums got no response from Bliz, as far as I know they dont even acknoledge its their problem.
Since EQ2 IMO is unplayable (aside from nice spell effects it has nothing) and WoW has so many problems, I will be MMORPless for a while. See you all later when they fix the game, will be checking once in a while if they did.
BTW, AMD64 1gb, NVIDIA 4600TI, Santa Cruz SB, all drivers latest, defrag + reinstalled game, CPU temp<30C (best cpu fan) 3 fans on case. And... NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS PRIOR V1.3.
Elerind of Eredar.
Comments
It's possibly your computer specs not working correctly.
Sure, it was working perfectly a day be4 patch then it started. My computer doesnt crash no game crashes, EQ2 doesnt crash or freeze, all hardware is brand new and has the latest drivers, I even tried different versions of the NVIDIA drivers same thing.
Maybe, just meybe, patch 1.3 has a bug ?! OMG did I just say it ?!
EDIT: Just found 34 page long thread about freezing after patch 1.3:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-tech-support&t=222292&tmp=1#post222292
The recent downtime patch fixed the crash error that occured mainly as a result of a faulty UI or teleportation crashing.
If your talking about the patch yesterday, I dont think it fixed this particular problem. I was showing the game to a friend and he created a char on one of theose few servers that were up. Game fronze about 3 times in less than 2 hours. Same way, not lag, just the video, mouse pointer still worked then finally mouse vanished.
Game didn't freeze with -opengl but then it looks terrible.
read that NVIDIA driver version 61.77 fixes the issue, but I dont consider it a fix rather a work around (its an year old diver).
Im a software developer so I understand that the bug will be fixed when its fixed. But the lack of information and feedback concerning problems is kinda bad. Also the problem with patch 1.3 is that it had way too much stuff, so its hard for them to roll back, another mistake they made.
bad computEr