Will not luanch to login server

[DFTIV]

I have downloaded eq titanium, followed all the instructions for setting up eqemu, however, when I click my eqgame application nothing happens. It doesn't even go to the login server...I dont know what to do to fix it.

[Optimus]

click the screen. It will just sit there until you left click it with mouse.

[DFTIV]

Well what is supposed to happen, is I click eqgame, then it launches the window, I accept the terms.....click through the screens with sony, etc, and then it goes to the login screen. But what is happening is that nothing happens at all after I click eqgame. It looks like it wants to open but doesnt.

[Vexyl]

How are you running the game?
Did you make a shortcut on your desktop and append patchme to the end of the target?

[DFTIV]

Yes, I did everything the directions said.

[Vexyl]

Do you have everything that Everquest requires to run? (DirectX 9 for instance)

What operating system are you using?
If on Windows, have you disabled UAC?
If not, try running as administrator.

[DFTIV]

hmm that might be the problem. I dont think I have direct x9. I will try that.

[Vexyl]

It would probably give you an error if you were missing a DX9 component, but it doesn't hurt to try.

[DFTIV]

Right, I am not getting any errors. But yeah I will try. Should it be direct x9 or does it matter if it's a newer version?

[Vexyl]

This would do: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35, although you most likely already have the components installed.

Edit: Make sure your video card driver is up-to-date.

[DFTIV]

ok how do I check that?

[Vexyl]

Find out what card you have and download the latest driver from the company's (nvidia, amd, etc) website.

[DFTIV]

yeah I already had direct x installed.

[Vexyl]

When you run EQ, is it listed in the task manager?
I don't know what guide you are referring to, but have you patched at all?

[DFTIV]

The getting started guides on here and on the p99 site. I did download and use their emulauncher first. It was not working, so now I am trying to get it to work the old way.

[Vexyl]

Do you have anti-virus software installed? It's starting to sound like an AV attempt to passively block the program from running.

[DFTIV]

No it's not in the task manager, I get an hour glass icon and then nothing,

[DFTIV]

yes, but I turned it off and it still doesn't work. Should I of had it off when I was downloading eq titanium and installing it?

[Vexyl]

No, it seems like it didn't interfere with either of those. Just make sure that it's not blocking the game from running.

[DFTIV]

Yeah, Like I said it's off right now, so it can't do anything

[Vexyl]

It could be the case that it's trying to start with an unsupported resolution.
Open up eqclient.ini in your Everquest directory and add the following commonly supported options:

under [Defaults]

WindowedMode=TRUE


under [VideoMode]

Width=1024
Height=768
WindowedWidth=1024
WindowedHeight=768
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=60

[DFTIV]

Ok, my eqclient looks like this currently,

[Defaults]
Sound=TRUE


Also, I am wondering now if it might now be something with the video card driver, it's an ATI Radeon 3100 on a Toshiba labtop. I just read about various problems with these, not sure though, since this computer did run eqemu just fine when I first bought it.

[Vexyl]

Alright, so edit eqclient.ini to include what I've listed in my previous post and then try launching the game again.

ATI Radeon 3100 for laptops
Windows 7 32-bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-32.aspx
Windows 7 64-bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx

Choose the link appropiate to your version of Windows.

If not Windows 7:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Edit: If [VideoMode] is missing then add it.


[Defaults]
Sound=TRUE
WindowedMode=TRUE

[VideoMode]
Width=1024
Height=768
WindowedWidth=1024
WindowedHeight=768
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=60

[DFTIV]

So I should add the WindowedMode=TRUE above the sound true or replace it? and then add the whole other section including [VideoMode]

[DFTIV]

Awesome doing it now.

[Vexyl]

You may want to try getting that driver directly from Toshiba's website:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp

Click Downloads and input the information for your laptop.

[DFTIV]

Ok I am going to try to download the driver now. The last thing didnt work either. Just to make sure, I am supposed to add the patchme to eqgame app, not EverQuest?

[Vexyl]

Right, you are supposed to make a shortcut to eqgame.exe and add patchme as a command-line argument.
In Windows you would do this by right clicking the shortcut and going to properties and appending patchme to the target path.

[DFTIV]

Right, that is exactly what I did. Just wanted to make sure.

[Vexyl]

If nothing works maybe you should try reinstalling from the EQ Titanium CD's without using the eqemu launcher that you mentioned earlier.

[DFTIV]

Yeah, that is what I am going to try now, since the driver did not work. Is it possible i got a bad torrent when downloading the cds?

[Vexyl]

Yeah, that is what I am going to try now, since the driver did not work. Is it possible i got a bad torrent when downloading the cds?

It's definitely a possibility since you have no control over what the uploader has done to the files before uploading.

And with that I must inform you that pirated copies of Everquest are not supported on these forums.

[DFTIV]

ok thanks for the help. that was more of a hypothetical