noob here need help setting this up

[Ginadan]

I just now learned of this emulator for EQ. I have been looking for one for some time now and this one sounds like it might actually be worth figuring out. Only problem is I cant get it to work. I just installed EQ back onto my computer and it has not been patched at all. I updated my eqhost file to read eqlogin.gotfrags.com:5999 instead of what it was originally. And tried running Everquest.exe to log in. However it keeps trying to download a file p.dat, this file keeps screwing up EQ though. Everytime I try to run everquest.exe after patching it says I am missing a file d3d8.dll, I believe this to be for directx 8 but I cant download it atm. Could someone please tell me how to get this program set up and correctly running, so that I may log onto other players servers and perhaps even set up one of my own.

[DaRacne Shaitan]

One problem you're going to have is that gotfrags runs on 5997 now instead of 5999... Ontop of that you also need to register an account with gotfrags server...

[Ginadan]

I keep getting this error when I try to load up eqw, I downloaded the most current version of it and have my eqhost.txt file set up to read

[Registration Servers]
{
"eqlogin.gotfrags.com:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"eqlogin.gotfrags.com:5999"
}

like its supposed to. At least as far as I know. And I have the eqw files in my eq directory so I know thats not the problem. Could someone please tell me what I need to do to fix this or what I haven't done already like Im supposed to.

[Brian Enos]

as was said before, change 5999 to 5997