Zone servers Crashing....

[IADaenks]

1) If you are having PROGRAM CRASHING errors, please provide the following information:
a) What error you are having and when you are having it.
zone.exe has encounterd a problem and needs to close (illegal operation i guess) hitting Details gives me this:
AppName: zone.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: zone.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00069faa

b) What OS (Operating System, IE: Windows 95) you are using
XP home

c) What EMU Version (IE: 0.3.7) you are using
0.4.2

d) What you are connecting to (Minilogin, Publiclogin, Logging/Hosting into eqlogin.eqemu.net)
i dont even get that far... but im trying to use eqlogin.eqemu.net
e) Are you using eqgame.exe patchme, or EQW.
havnt got that far, but patchme probably

f) If EQW, what version you are using.
n/a

g) When your last patch date was.
today

h) Your Processor Speed, RAM, Video Card type/size, Internet Connection Type(Cable, DSL, 56k), and Sound Card.
1.9Ghz, 512MB DDR, geForce2 32MB, Cable, onboard(C-Media Audio Device)

i DO have spells_en.txt its 1.5MB
and was modified last on Thursday, December 19, 2002, 3:09:58 AM

maybe i have the wrong one?

may boot5zones.bat looks like this:

start zone . 24.167.71.220 7995 24.167.71.220
start zone . 24.167.71.220 7996 24.167.71.220
start zone . 24.167.71.220 7997 24.167.71.220
start zone . 24.167.71.220 7998 24.167.71.220
start zone . 24.167.71.220 7999 24.167.71.220
exit
cls

that *is* my ip, i've also tried doing it with 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.3 (my local lan ip)

to set up the server, i just followed the intructions that came in a .html document in the zip, which i got from your sourceforge site....

So.. if you have any idea, please respond, PM, IM, email me, or whatever...

thx..

Dan

[Medivh1984]

Hey all, got a weird problem here:

First of all, I can join and play on EQEmu servers fine now. BUT, when I run my own server, I can get in and create a character just find, the problem is, when I join world, I can see it on my Taskbar, one of the Zone.exe's shuts down (I assume its the one that this character tries to connect too), and so the game goes back to server. Every time I try this, another of the 5 Zone.exe's goes down....

I am on WinXP
EQEmu 4.2 (Newest)
All Minilogins, World, and Zones load fine to start
I use EQWindows
Patching isn't the problem as I can connect fine to EQEmu servers
P4 1.8GHz, 512RAM, 128MB Radeon 8500, Cable, Audigy Sound.

Spells_en is where its supposed to be, like I said, I can play on EQEmu servers fine, this only happens running my own server...

[padwin]

Summing up my problem: I first tried setting up v0.4.2 login,world,zones on a celeron500. Got this error initializing zones. So I decided to try on my AMD 1.2 Ghz. Zones were booting, but as soon as I tried to get into Rivervale with my character to start playing, zone server would disappear. If I tried again, there went my second zone server, and so on. Suddenly, I think after I rebooted, the zones just crash before they initialize with this same error every time. How can this be? Even after I do a clean reinstall of Windows,eqemu,mysql, etc...same problem. Won't even initialize zones anymore. Zone.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down..ZONE caused an invalid page fault in module ZONE.EXE at 0167:00469faa. Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=00469faa EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00d30e2c SS=016f ESP=009ffadc EBP=009ffdf8
ECX=00c2825c DS=016f ESI=004aa108 FS=481f
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f b6 07 8b 0d 20 6a 4a 00 8a 04 41 83 e0 08 85
Stack dump:
00d30e45 004aa108 009ffdf8 00d30e2c 0046a01e 00000000 0042a9ae 00000000 00d30e3b 00000000 00d30170 81d5a200 bff7dcbf bff7dcc4 00000000 00000084
Running Windows 98 2nd ed, eqemu 0.4.2, localhost, 192.168.0.1, 127.0.0.1, etc. makes no difference, I did everything right. I even talked politely to it...well, for a while

[padwin]

Ok I got the zone servers to at least initialize after sourcing in Drawde's new DB 1.1 beta4. So I'm back to just figuring out 1 problem now. Hope this helped somebody

[Shawn319]

EQEmu does not like routers. If you have tried everything and no-one can help you, it is the router. The only way to fix router problems is to either a) make sure you have a 1000% PERFECT router setup with ports/ips and everything, or b) unplug the router and connect directly into one compuer.

[joshkincheloe]

I downloaded the addon @ http://cecugfile.net/ and that allowed the zones to not crash. I haven't had a chance to load up EQ yet though. Good luck!

[houdini]

http://cecugfile.net/ gotta new link for this one.... its dead jim.....

[Roadkill]

I have the a similar problem.

Everything seems to work, I can get in and create a character and all that. My zone.exe doesn't crash however, the zone that I'm suppose to be entering loads up properly. Instead, the minilogin.exe or world.exe (don't remember which) just say "Removing client... etc" the second I hit "Enter World". The rotating character just sits there motionless, as the client is frozen from the loss of connection.

The minilogin, world, and zones all stay up just fine though. No error messages of any kind. Just "Removing client... bla bla lba". I can task manager and kill the EQ client, then join right back up for it to do the same thing again.

[joshkincheloe]

i will post this file to my webserver tonight if I get the chance. I will only leave it u for 24 hours though as to not exceed my bandwidth. I will leave another message with a link to the file once I post it.

[joshkincheloe]

Sorry, this link is removed.