CTD And Blackzones *Fixed*

over the last couple of weeks i have been runnign into blackzones (the zone dont load iit jsut all black with entities in them) and warningless Crash to Desktops.

I finnaly figured it out, and it was due to me having vsync enabled in DgGvodoo.
Im NOT blaiming DGvodoo it might be something else in my system that is together with this making it weird

When i first enabled it it worked with vsync the fisrt few times but then sync stopped working (FastCS would peak to several hundreds FPS) bakc then i evne tried forcing vsync in via AMD graphics panele but to no availb.
I disabled the AMD driver Vsync but left it in Dgvodoo.

Then a bit after that the CTD and Blackzone started hapepening and it went on for weeks. multiple times a day.
butafter removing it from DG voodoo it all fine now


TL:DR if you have instabilty and blackzones maybe check vsync in dgvoodoo (especially if its not workin anyway to cap your FPS)

Do you have the client patched?

patched in wich way ?

Large address aware flag. not at first but tried that later ( it is currently). Besides my privat memory allocation was below 700MB per process so probably not memory related.

Vsync doesn't cause crashes.

Bad drivers definitely might.

Are you allocating 4GB of vram per instance in dgvoodoo, as well?

If it seems to happen with the same zone(s) repeatedly, it might also be an issue with the file on disk rather than memory.

At this point, I just assume most of what daneblood says is a tendency to put too much faith in his own weird assumptions. But, I do want to point out that the amount of RAM you have used does not necessarily correlate to whether you have enough free to load a zone.

You need a specific amount of contiguous RAM addressing space. So, if your instance has been running a while you might have fragmented bits all over and you could have 700MB in use but still lack a contiguous ~200MB to load a high texture zone.

What can I say it was the one change that fixed it.
could be bsync in combination with something else, but once I ticked it off in dgvoodoo the game no longer had blackzone or CTD.




Nope. I run with 512mb it has worked that way for year and wasnt needed to change to fix it.
I do not use any HD textures.

File verification of both POL and FFXI came up empty.
in further info. just because a zone blackzoned on one character did not mean it blackzoned for another character. If it was file I would assume both would be impacted.
Also the blakczone would be any randomzone. It would work maybe a few entry into that zone and then go blakc and permanently be black for that character until I restarted FFXI.
but the other character could keep on going until then that would have another zone.
It was pretty random and non comsistent. but often (several timees for each character over a evening


I also tried disabling FastCS and set FPS back to 30 in the game.
run with/without packtflow.

Yet all was the same until I disabled vsync in dgvoodoo