MBP Everquest 2 Issues (Bootcamp)

[Mahakala]

Hello all.

I am the proud owner of a shiny new MBP. I purchased the higher end 15" one with 4 gig of Ram and 2.53 processor. I am very happy with the purchase and have been running OSX and Windows XP SP3 in both VM Fussion and Bootcamp modes with no problems until last evening.

I installed the newest EQ2 expansion "The Shadow Odyssey" last night and started the game up in Bootcamp mode. I was able to log in and see my characters. However, once in the game world my MBP would black screen after a few seconds of playing. For a few seconds after the black screen I can continue to hear sounds around me followed by silence and an occasional system reboot.

This condition occurs both on my 24" ACD and when running on the laptop screen. I have tried different quality settings and resolutions but not made any progress. I also d/l the most recent drivers from nVidia and still the same issues.

It is also worth noting that I have been playing Fallout 3 on this system with no issues at all.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any additional suggestions? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Liquidsoda]

Any Luck?

I am getting the MBP 17" and will be installing EQ2. I just wanted to know if you have found a fix. I heard some where that they switched to Vista but that is all I have seen on this problem.

 

[Liquidsoda]

Does this link help you?

I found this link..

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=macbook+pro+bootcamp+everquest+2&page=1&qsrc=0&zoom=&ab=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidemacgames.com%2Fforum%2Flofiversion%2Findex.php%2Ft25300.html

The last post says it works on vista...

GL!

 

[bigbadbrad45]

The solution I've found is to disable one of the cores to your intel processor in the windows mode. Given I'm running Windows 7 currently but I imagine it would be the same for Vista or XP. My game used to crash every 5 minutes on my MBP. But with only 1 core running I've been playing the game for several hours now with no crashes. I haven't been playing enough to know if this defintely fixed my problem but so far so good. Maybe if some other people want to give this a try as well maybe we can find out if this solution works for everyone. Here is the link I used to disable one of the processing cores.

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-616-multicore-cpu-how-to-disable-a-core

**In the System Configuration window click on the start sub menu and the on Advanced Options button.** (in windows 7 it was under the boot sub menu not the start one, but this link gets you close to it)

I'll try and keep you guys posted if I have any crashes