big hardrives

[drunk_punk]

hello everyone.
I dont know if anyone has menchened anthing on this yet. but if you have a nice sized hard drive then it would be a good idea to make to copies of your everquest directory. like have your real everquest at c:\program files\sony\everquest and have your everquest for eqemu at this place c:\program files\eqemu
that way you dont have to worry about a patch messing anything up and you can still play on your live serer. ( also this way you could test to see if the patch messes anything up. and if the emu is fixed for the patch then just run the patcher on the other directory.

hope i dont sound to stupid.

[Symarra]

Size does matter! rofl

[Trumpcard]

Thats exactly what alot of us do (I hesitate to say most) ... You can always tell the ones that don't, theyre the ones asking for the next emu release date the day after a major patch...

[drunk_punk]

ya i know common sence is to do that. but some people dont. and you wouldnt believe how many people email me asking for files that the patcher fucked up. i dont like that when people do that because its just a wast of my time

[bot403]

just run the game with the patchme command line
It totally skips teh stupid patch interface and gets straight to gaming.
BACK UP YOUR FILES! EQEMU is NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART, at least serving ;), playing is the easy part.

C:\MyEQ\eqgame.exe patchme

[Thanatos]

I would make a copy for the emu, but I don't have the harddrive space. My HD is only 6gig >_< Luckily I don't play on the live servers, so it isn't a problem.

[Lurker_005]

1) only patch when the emu is updated...

2a) backup the whole EQ directory
skipping all *.eff *.s3d *.m3d *.xmi and *.dat filesshould be ok

2b) or backup the most troublesome files
DO NOT ASK FOR THESE FILES!
eqgame.exe
eqmain.dll
eqgfx_dx8.dll
eqspell.dat
eqhost.txt

There may be another one that usually causes trouble when it changes. Your odds of not having trouble increase for each file you back up

DO NOT ASK FOR THESE FILES!

[Thanatos]

2a) backup the whole EQ directory
skipping all *.eff *.s3d *.m3d *.xmi and *.dat filesshould be ok


Sounds like a plan.

[Lurker_005]

Computer are REALLY good at repetive tasks. All it takes is a little work on your part.

A batch file with something like the following would automate it.
if not exists backup md backup
copy *.txt backup\
copy *.exe backup\
copy *.dll backup\
... ect for what ever you wish to backup

I didn't try to check for syntax errors, but that is one way to make it easy.

[Shawn319]

2a) backup the whole EQ directory
skipping all *.eff *.s3d *.m3d *.xmi and *.dat filesshould be ok

spdat.eff should be backed up too.

and always, its a good idea to backup the entire EQ folder (or zip it up) if you have the room.

100 gig HD's arent that much these days hehe.