Why am I going Linkdead as I am about to log in my character

[blavek]

I can get to char sewlect I select my char and it starts to load eq like4 I am going to login to the world and then before the world even starts I go LD... Is this because my connection is just that bad or am I potentially doing something wrong?

[animepimp]

It could be several things. The least likely is that your connection just sucks. The most likely is that you are trying to play on a server with a version of the EQ client that doesn't work on that server. If you've patched recently you have to play on 5.7 DR2 servers.

[Aniron]

thanks for the info, that will solve his problem i think, as well as mine. I need to figure out how to take my server up to 5.7 dr2. This might be more difficult than i thought, but i bet it would be rewarding to actually do it.

[blavek]

Do the servers play up for example a dr1 on your machine can play dr1 and dr2's? or does the version need to match exactly?

[animepimp]

For the most part the versions have to match exactly in order for you to play on them.

[tiraid]

I patched today, May 5, and I cannot connet to 5.7 dr2 servers

[StarLion]

I am having this problem also.

I am using the MiniLogon, Emu Version 5.7 DR2, and get the Linkdeath problem from my Zone.exe's whenever i try to boot in.

The Last Modified Date on my Eqnews.txt is 4/28/04; I assume that is the last time i patched (I cant remember editing the news file myself :P)

Any ideas?

[StarLion]

Erm... I just noticed this additional at the top of my zonefile connection segment...

(I'm unsure where the last connection ends and the next begins, so there's probably some overlap)

[Status] Zone Shutdown: neriaka (40)
[Status] Weather should change in 5464 seconds
Init: Loading zone lists, zone state or spawn list, player corpses
Zonepoints loaded into memory
, timezone data - Done. ZoneID =40; Time Offset = 0
Reading zhdr file './cfg/neriaka.cfg'
Using database for safe coords.
Zone safe coords are x = 156.92; y = -2.04; z= 31.75
Couldn't find/read ./cfg/.cfg. (returning -1)
Corrupt (or nonexistant) zhdr file ./cfg/.cfg -- fread count = -1 (should be 588)
Using default zone header data...

(etc...)

What is causing this? (I mean.. nothign should be named just .cfg ?)[/code]