Comments on: Trial of the Isle: Priest

By: Ethic

Ethic — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:37:10 +0000

Update on my graphics problem, this might be a fix:

Issues Resolved in ATI Catalyst® Software Suite 6.1

Everquest II: A VPU Recover event or the operating system failing to respond no longer occur when playing the game. Further details on these resolved issues can be found in topic number 737-21437

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:46:47 +0000

I did not group up with anyone as a priest. I understand the role and I expect it would be different in a group. I did not take on Rockbelly with any of my characters. Grouping was almost impossible as I only saw about 3 people total while playing. I know there has to be quests I missed. There seemed to be plenty of things I missed, just by looking at it you could tell there must be a quest.

Waiting for the new version of the Trial and I’ll spend more time in that one.

By: Loam

Loam — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:31:16 +0000

Wow, have they made the Isle so easy that you don’t even need to heal yourself anymore? :) Have you tried taking on any of the nameds? The pirate skeleton that spawns in that little graveyard area, or the ghost Rockbelly? (You need a quest started from a map sometimes dropped from the skeletons to fight him, though.) Bladefin?

Hop over to Ogaming.com and make sure you’d hit every quest available on the Isle. Priests also need to be in a group to get an accurate feel of their role in the game.

By: Heartless_

Heartless_ — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:57:20 +0000

From my research the priest is supposedly more powerful than mages at low levels, but as you probably can guess it turns around in later levels.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:21:35 +0000

I did revert to 5.2 over the weekend and it certainly was better. I’ll give the omega drivers a shot, in fact I think that is what I had installed before the driver upgrade that started all these problems. Thanks for the tips.

By: Barney

Barney — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:16:37 +0000

I had a Radeon 9550, and experienced the “VPU Crashes” you are talking about. There is a specific thread in the Technical support forums on this issue. I downloaded the omega drivers (www.omegadrivers.net), and found that I experienced very little problems after that. Make sure to turn off the fast write and vpu recover settings. Sony’s recommendation was to revert back to the Catalyst 5.2 drivers, but give me a break.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:53:20 +0000

I don’t have problems with any other game, and I didn’t have problems until I updated my drivers so I assume it is related to a messy driver install.

I plan to upgrade my gfx card soon anyway so perhaps the problem is not worth worrying about.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:04:11 +0000

My wife has that problem with her ATI card. It turns out that the NVidia GeForce chipset on her motherboard isn’t compatible with her Radeon, but it’s only really been a problem in WoW’s Badlands and occasionally in EQ2. I went to an older set of drivers, turned down the AGP multiplier, etc., but it still came down to an incompatibility in hardware that meant either a new motherboard or an NVidia graphics card.