I will be leaving the planet (mentally) for the next couple of weeks.
Shader 3.0 will be disabled from Beta for the next couple of weeks since there seems to be a bug on certain HW right now crashing the game if shader 3 is on.
Test may get the same bug sometime during the first week of January. If it does, you can manually disable shader 3 by adding the following line to your eq2_recent.ini, eq2.ini, and/or eq2_default.ini file located in the same directory as the game's executable file.
/r_usethreepointoshaders 0
If "/r_usethreepointoshaders" is already in your ini file. Make sure there is a 0 and not a 1 after it to make shader 3 disabled.
I am really very sorry if this affects anyone. I'll be back cleaning this up ASAP.
For those of you that want to see if it didn't actually break for you, you can add the following line to the ini files listed above to re-enable shader 3.0. To re-disable shader 3 change the 0 to a 1.