December 18th Patch

[Rogean]

The December 18th Patch <u>&lt;font color=red>Has Broken&lt;/font></u> EQEmu.

This means <u>DO NOT PATCH</u> Without making a backup of your existing EQ Folder.

[haecz]

tnx for sharing... lets just corss our fingers that we dont get spammed with posts asking about why they cant play :s

[Ephezian]

Is there a place to download the previous patchs? I have a dial up connection and have to reinstall. Any help would be appreciated.

Ephezian

[mattmeck]

Is there a place to download the previous patchs? I have a dial up connection and have to reinstall. Any help would be appreciated.

Ephezian

short answer = no

long answer = that would be handing out warz and you even asking the question you did is against the rules and can get you banned

[danielwow12]

Hey, thanks for the forewarning!

So, do i just need to not run the updater?

[RippaN]

verant is trying to be smart when they first made us confirm that the patch didnt broke eqemu, then right after that they updated with a destroying file so everyone thought it was ok to patch.. i think maybe.. not.. or.. something =)

[haecz]

So, do i just need to not run the updater?

what?!
that post makes no sense?
is anythin wrong,cant u play? :s
im confused ;P

[Canadili]

is there anyway to reverse the patch, if you already ran it? i tried sing eqemu patcher but it doesnt work anymore

[Tertiary]

is there anyway to reverse the patch, if you already ran it? i tried sing eqemu patcher but it doesnt work anymore

No, you need to wait until EQEmu catches up with todays patch. This could take a while, just check back every week or so to check on progress.

[kettle]

There is a way to reverse patch, I use WinXp in start/programe/ accessorie/system tools/system restore.

Thanks for warning :D

[Arastiroth]

I have patched forward, but have another computer with the old patch on it still -- does anyone know what files have broken the game, and if I just replace those with the older files would it work? Or anything that anyone else could tell me about getting those to work? Would I have to replace all the files that were updated, or just a couple?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks. =)

[a_Guest03]

Technically, you only have to replace a couple! Finding out which couple won't take you long. Search your everquest folder for any and all files replaced 12/17/03 or 12/18/03. When you have compiled a list, you can replace only those. It's probably faster to replace it all.

[Arastiroth]

I looked at my Everquest.log file and at the bottom it says:


[19:15:33] -------- CRC Validation ------------------------------
[19:15:33] CRC for eqmain.dll: -1229297779
[19:15:33] CRC for spdat.eff: -1521775102
[19:15:33] CRC for eqtext.txt: 126010213
[19:15:33] CRC for fr_eqtext.txt: 73989424
[19:15:33] CRC for de_eqtext.txt: -1170578037
[19:15:33] CRC for eqgame.exe: 368550649
[19:15:33] Preparing to launch eqgame.exe
[19:15:33] -------- CRC Validation End --------------------------


Would that mean those are the files that were updated?

[Tolarn]

You should be able to just replace those files with the old ones and have it work

[haecz]

actually you will need to replace "eqp_config.xml" and "eqp_strings.xml" aswell...
they are important, filled with info about the version
of EQ, so if you do not recover these files, you
will not be able to play.

[xfaid]

Thanks kettle for the system restore tip, it worked for me :D

[Stevenpfo]

I wanted to try out some zones in PoP and don't want to wait until i can get the cds back from my bro so i'm gonig to patch them in. I copy and pasted eq trilogy and SoL into a new folder and will change the files mentioned above in two previous posts and will get back to everyone to know if it will work, just changing a few files.

[johny]

I tried system restore...didnt work...keep looseing connection to client...so hmm

[haecz]

johny, then your lost, sorry bro...
you'll just have to wait then...

read on my signature about 1017 if u want some
more info..

[Stevenpfo]

It worked with no problems all around far as I can tell.

[haecz]

It worked with no problems all around far as I can tell.
what did ?

god this sucks can soemone that got it to work walk me through the process on aim or something plz my aim name is zeakskit just give me a tell plz i feel lost without emulator. :(

i replaced the two files it said to in a previous entry adn it still didnt work so if someone could plz give me an instant message on aim my screen name is zeakskit and walk me thorugh the process i would be very grateful

[haecz]

i replaced the two files it said to in a previous entry adn it still didnt work so if someone could plz give me an instant message on aim my screen name is zeakskit and walk me thorugh the process i would be very grateful

you need to recover all the files from your patch-log, and the files i wrote earlier...

[Arastiroth]

Thank you all for the help. :D

ok i cant find which ones were modified or not how do i tell which ones they are?

about the windows restore config thing how do i go to a day that isnt highlighted because i just got my computer tuesday and downloaded eq but the day it gives me the option of going back to is before i downloaded eq

[haecz]

facelessdemon, im not sure you can,,,.. :(
windows makes a backup like once every week or so :S

i give up. when are they going to get caught up with eq so we can play again?

[a_Guest03]

They get caught up when they get caught up. Devs hate seeing that question.

Until otherwise stated, 4/17/05.

windows has failed me damn bill gates

[nystriil]

How about if someone who was in the know enough not to update zip the files in question and upload them somewhere where us not in the know may download them? That would be great!

Thanks

[cybermax]

I guess this is the DREAM thread for the flamers.. I mean.. come on!

"in the know"?

What do you mean? Those that were in the know of the patch going to break EqEmu? Is it those you mean? Cos if it is.. this makes for most peeps WITH THEIR EYES OPEN.

This was posted on the news page for SEVERAL WEEKS.. If you somehow managed to patch anyway.. TOO BAD FOR JOO... I certainly feel no pity..

How about if someone who was in the know enough not to update zip the files in question and upload them somewhere where us not in the know may download them? That would be great!

Thanks


I think what your asking is Ileagal your not allowed to distro EQ files with there permission im pretty sure.

[nystriil]

Hey man, did it ever occur to you that us who patched maybe just GOT the game and didn't have any other choice??

I heard of EqEMU yesterday, I had never visited the website before then so I couldn't know of the patch problem!

Not everyone who plays this game has owned it for years. Think about that before you flame me again!

sdabbs: That is possible. If it is the case, then disregard. And thanks for the info.

[a_Guest03]

In the news forum, towards the top, there is a post... oh wait, it's this one. Yeah, there have been warnings since October. We issue the warnings over and over, and still people get upset. Would you like me to email everyone who hasn't heard of eqemu until just now?

[nystriil]

No, I understand that I couldn't have known about the patch breaking EqEMU. All I asked was for some help, if it is legal to do so. Instead I got flamed, which is why I reacted the way I did.

[a_Guest03]

Don't ask for the files, for your own security. It makes the devs angry, and you wouldn't like them... when they're angry.

[nystriil]

:) Consider my request removed in that case

[nynnenFV]

windows has failed me damn bill gates
Because you can make a better OS yerself?*coughs*You should like Bill Gates! If it wasn't for him we might all swtill be using Dos....or worse...apple!*shudders*

[Shawn319]

If you have the &lt;=dec17 patch (ie.. didnt patch on dec18+), here is a link to the (source only) latest "non patch" eqemu (0.5.3-DR1).

NOTE: There is NO support for this. Use at your OWN risk. If i catch anyone asking any questions, that'll be the last of the 'dev' releases... =P

http://eqemu.sourceforge.net/shawn319/cvs/EQEmu-0.5.3-DR1-Dec17.zip


P.S. Please do not LINK the file directly or give it out as a third person. point them to THIS post please.

P.P.S. Use Visual Studio.net 2003 to compile.. if you have 2002, rename *.sln.old to *.snl

[Synch]

Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system. Say what you will about DOS and such, any OS that is based off of a good UNIX implementation (FreeBSD) and gets the whole UI thing correct is a step in the right dang direction.

I may have disliked System 7.5 and such, but X is a fine piece of work. I suggest you give it a shot, it may just change your opinion of Apple completely.

Sorry for the offtopic post. I just couldn't let the apple comment go.

[NEW_Knight]

Doh...
Trust me to want to try this emu for first time in 6 months, and not think to check for patch version.

Sometimes I amaze myself, oh well, see you all in the new year.

advancements sound good btw, keep up the good work devs.

apple sucks dude windows is the best you cant do anything on a apple :evil:

[Wumpas]

I herd the word "Dude" utterd in slang. Im sorry but now I have to school you.

Do you realise what you are saying facelessdemon?

Apple has to check to make sure something wont crash in any circumstances before they will release it for the Mac OS That is why the Mac OS is one of the most stable OS's in the world.

Mac file systems are rock solid Faceless and its because of this plus the fact that Macs are graffics screamers that macs are the soul choice of many Media Developers.

Mac may not play many game releases but that is because no one can make any games stability worthy of the mac branding.

[haecz]

look like someones a fan :S

[Shadow-Wolf]

correction the mac os is actualy the most unstable OS, all the computers at my school run off the mac OS os X or 9 they both suck, they always crash, people loose their files(not by pesky students deleting them in other words they just dissapear), if a a file gets accendataly deleted the whole system crashes.

[Wumpas]

School computers get very abused sometimes more so by the admins than the students. The most likely cause of files being deleted as im guessing is probably because the school is using gosting software to delete any new files (over paranoid admins use pretty drastic tactics that make the systems worthless) Also Im betting there lower grade machines lower ram and such that are called on to run way to many background apps for the (over paranoid server admins) If you maintain an apple with proper care and stay away from emulators. It will hardly ever crash. And dont tell me your windows never crashes LOL because thats imposible :P

Your right im a fan because theve never failed me nor my uncle Hes used them in his music studio for 5 years runing.

[Kroeg]

The most common cause of public computers sucking is hard drive thrashing. Constant use on a cheap HDD without defragmenting and maintaining it all the time = hard drive thrashing, and causes all types of other things to 'wait for the hdd'.

[Shadow-Wolf]

actualy my computer has only crashed lets see i think twice?

dude ok all you guys need to get a girl and a life dude your fucking dorks and you need to have soem fun man :twisted: worship teh devil like me and hate jews

Of course I only do this because of my hideously small penis.. I mean seriously, I could do a cheerio without breaking it ! This has driven me to rampant acts of homosexuality but even extremely effeminine gay men make fun of me and can beat me up, so my only option left is to get on the internet and act like a complete dumbass. Oh woe is me, failure is already destined in my stars.

[Tharamil]

When you jump into puberty...Ill start getting a life. Until then please sit down and stfu


Thanks

[Wumpas]

. . .

[Tharamil]

Its not even humorous to me..I think it is just VERY VERY rude.


Please remove it asap


Thanks

[mattmeck]

We try to keep this a work friendly forum so as soon as the powers that be see that post i think he is going to get banned. :evil:

[thepooper]

macs BLOW, and that is an educated opinion...

[zatrekan]

dude ok all you guys need to get a girl and a life dude your fucking dorks and you need to have soem fun man worship teh devil like me and hate jews

Right... Why don't you take your own advice and get a life? If anyone wants to be like you, I feel sorry for them. Also, posting that crap about hating jews on a public board was just pure idiocy, and I think you should get banned np.

[Shadow-Wolf]

dude ok all you guys need to get a girl and a life dude your fucking dorks and you need to have soem fun man worship teh devil like me and hate jews

ok you are going to hell. and if you lived by me i would beat the shit out of you cause one of my friends is a jew.. and if you worship the devil then you need a fucking life you little moronice waste of oxygen.

[Trumpcard]

I think you should get banned

I concur... :-)

[nilumtil]

Wow, this board's reaction to faceless' post was hilarious. As a semi-educated person, I sometimes enjoy the use of shockingly extreme sarcasm to make my point. Judging by your conservative mid-west "protect the children" reaction to his (while immature) fairly intelligently-written post, I'm glad I don't post here very often. His post had "naughty words" and allusions to beliefs or viewpoints that are socially unacceptable, but are you going to burn him at the stake because you think he REALLY worships the devil and hates jews? I DON'T THINK HE DOES
Seriously, I don't mean to troll. I think the correct response for the questionable post was snickering at the sarcasm and moving on instead of getting your panties in a wad.
edit: now that I reread the post, it does display poor grammar and punctuation. However, it is still above-average on the intelligence scale for this board.
edit #2: I find the fact that Wumpas' reply makes less sense than the post he was replying to to be quite amusing.

[mattmeck]

Actualy the amount of children that play EQEMU and read the forums is unbelievable, I have 2 daughters that play all the time, and imagin if someone has a Jewish boss and wile there checking up on the forums there boss walks by and reads that. People dont think of the all the what ifs, like what if one of the 10 year olds that play come across that post then ask there parents what it means and there parents get pissed and come after the Devs. They cant do much other then complain but why set ourselfs up for problems. when we can just avoid the situation?

[nilumtil]

when we can just avoid the situation?
Living in fear that you (even less, someone on the same board) offend someone is cowardly. Perhaps you should rent a film called "PCU". Back on topic, you can't (shouldn't at least) be legally obligated to keep people with stances that individuals may find offensive off your board. The children argument is the only sane one, and I personally think that people need to explain to their children about people with strange viewpoints early so that they just don't get abducted by cults or something, ESPECIALLY were I to allow my children access to the internet at large (which I know for a fact to be full of people weirder than Jacko).

[Trumpcard]

While I agree that sheltering your children is not the best policy, these boards are no place for hate mongering, racial slurs, political agendas or flames.

It's within the rights of the boards moderators to ban/moderate based on the post and/or poster. There are alot of children that play here, and while you can't protect them from idiots all the time, we can at least filter the amount that comes through.

Right or wrong, regardless of your views Nil, your opinion is not the one that counts in determinng how to handle these matters. The post was a flame, and everything after the derogatory remarks were just pointless and icing on the cake for a good reason to ban him. I personally don't care what anyones personal or religious views are, none of my concern, and I wouldnt ban someone for having a different viewpoint than mine, but I will ban people who will obviously come here, attack others, and generally annoy the piss outta us.

[nilumtil]

Good reply. Say, I installed EQ after the patch on the 18th. Is there any hope for me?

[Tharamil]

I did the same exact thing, my computer had said ,,|,, and died on me. So had to replace my HD, Mobo, Memory. Well that being said I had to reinstall EVERYTHING onto my HD. Though I am in a raiding guild with Zatrekan, I really wanted to play EQemu. There was no way to restore to a set point, so I hope that the Devs come up with an update to help the retards like I, who installed after Dec 18th or decided not to listen to the devs and patched away

I am also glad that the devs made a reply to Faceless. I am 22 years old, dont have children, but I found that as a pointless post and really immature.

Thanks

Tharamil

[cheerman]

hey im back muhahahahahahahahahh :twisted:

[cheerman]

Of course I only do this because of my hideously small penis.. I mean seriously, I could do a cheerio without breaking it ! This has driven me to rampant acts of homosexuality but even extremely effeminine gay men make fun of me and can beat me up, so my only option left is to get on the internet and act like a complete dumbass. Oh woe is me, failure is already destined in my stars.


i have to say that this is very true about me yes yes you really captured my life story but let me tell you some thing a little quote i wrote

"your intellection for a prevalent reality is futily farcical im many demotingly commiserational ways"

the picture of me was a perfect image to you really captured my good side :twisted:

[Shadow-Wolf]

bah nm

[Tharamil]

Ban the IP

[cheerman]

you know what im done saying crap to you im sorry you didnt have to make such a big deal about it i just wanna play emulator :twisted:

[cheerman]

quit picking on me because im a male cheerleader :twisted:

[CJB916]

Hello all, i was posting for a little help with doing a system restore. I do start > programs > asscessories > system tools > then i have an option of doing A disk cleanup, Disk defrag, backup, character map, getting started, scheduled tasks and system info, NO system restore. I was hoping someone could give me any info... if they're having the same problem, know any good places to find system restore, etc. I've searched in windows explorer, but I cant find it. I know i'll eventually find it if i keep looking, however that'll take me a few hours of non-stop searching :( . Please, i'd appreciate any help anyone can offer.

[Tertiary]

CJB916:

1) Are you running Windows XP
2) Are you logged in with an 'Admin' account ?

[Shadow-Wolf]

i dont think hes running XP cause XP came after they started puting system restore on computers most pcs from before 1998 wont have system restore

[scrubj]

It'd be really helpful to some people to say exactly what you need to do to play the game now that the new patch has come out. I actually got the patch before I knew it would break EMu but I did the system restore (more than once, after experimenting a bit, to be honest.) Now I'm fine and it's as if the patch never happened. BUT! See I see you guys saying to "back-up" your existing EQ folder and to "replace" a couple files. Dont get too technical on me buds, I don't exactly know what you mean by that.. details would be nice.

Can someone just say exactly what you need to do before you run the patch, and then what it is you need to do afterwards? To back-up a file means to what? To replace means to what?.. replace the old files with the new, or the new files with the old. And by backing-up the file do I just copy the entire EQ folder and have it be called "Copy of Everquest"? Then what am I suppose to do? These terms you people use are just beyond me! Anyways, help would be again, nice. :wink: Without your help, I'm lost 8)

[mattmeck]

If you have already patched there is NOTHING you can do other then wait. the system restore is a way around it, but what there not telling you is is restors your whole HD back to that point so you loose everything you did after that. If you did not make a back up copy of your entire EQ folder you are SOL, just be patient and wait for the Devs to catch back up.

EDIT=

scrubj the easiest way to make sure you can play on both live and EQEMU is to back up the entire EQ folder once you know it works with the EMU, then you will have 1 that you play live with and 1 for the EMU. For instance I have 4 EQ folders, 1 for 4.4, 1 for 5.1, 1 for 5.2(or whatever is the current) and 1 for live. This way I will always be able to play E&lt;U and live.

[linnx]

:D :D

Hello everybody,

After reading this thread for a little while, all i can say is: ROFL...it really cheered me up, it is funny when you read some comments.
But to the point. I wanted to help out a little.

First of all, I'd like to give a big thanks to the dev team, you guys are awesome, I never expected this project to come this far. I hope more people will encourage the devs and less people will whine, complain and post halarious but stupid posts (we all know whom I mean).

We should simply ignore the morons.

Back to the post asking what backup is. It's basically copying the whole EQ directory in working condition to another hard drive or a DVD.

I'm in the same boat as everyone else, I had to reinstall WinXP and then recently got a new HD, so I installed EQ on the 18th and HAD to patch. I'll be waiting patiently until we get a fix.

Happy holidays everybody!

[Tharamil]

Oh and just to say, I love you Devs.....

[CJB916]

I am currently running Windows2000 Professional..... Is that before or after windowsXP? and will i still be able to do a restore? Thanks all, I appreciate your assistance.

[Tharamil]

Before WinXp...hence the name Windows "2000" otherwise known as "Millenium Edition" (What a homo name)

[Edgar1898]

Before WinXp...hence the name Windows "2000" otherwise known as "Millenium Edition" (What a homo name)

LOL Windows Millenium Edition is by no means the same operating system as Windows 2000. Thats like comparing a Dodge Neon to a Dodge Viper. Windows ME was supposedly an upgrade to Windows 98 although it had so many problems that most users gladly downgraded to Windows 98 again. Windows 2000 is my favorite OS, it has all the functionality and the it doesnt look like a 3 year old's computer with all the pre-school looking icons (Windows XP default).

[Cracker_Jack]

man Windows ME was as buggy as hell, used it for like 2 days had about 30 crashes and broke the cd and threw it in the trash.

[Cracker_Jack]

Windows 2000 is a great version, but i prefer to use Windows XP (as long as its SP1) xp has the few features i'd rather have.

[cheerman]

hey whenever i try and get on it says world server down how do i fix this?

[miscreant]

What of those who just installed it
i can't find a suitable patch then. DAMMIT

[Zath]

Heh, yeah same problem, just installed EQ again when i found the site on the 19th (a day earlier and i'd be fine).

[mattmeck]

EQEMU IS CURRENT WITH LIVE, NOT ALL SERVERS HAVE SWITCHED TO THE NEW BINARIES YET GIVE THEM SOME TIME. YOU PEOPLE NEED TO READ THE SITE BEFOR COMPLAINING / ASKING QUESTIONS 99.9% OF QUESTIONS ARE ALREADY ANSWERED.


sorry for the caps but we have been current with live since 12-21-2003 09:48 PM and people just refuse to read it. right under this post.

http://www.everquestserver.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11883

[elric81]

Hi! I patched the game after 18th december ani I want what old files are needed to play. Is enough eqp_config.xml, eqp_strings.xml and EverQuest.log?
I'm spanish answer me simple. Thanks :D

[mattmeck]

read my post right above yours

[miscreant]

Whats the status on the fixed protocol?