Zone.exe - Application Error

[Drewfus]

I am running win 2000.
I have sourced in the db.sql and the update.sql.
I have also sourced in 3.6 and 3.9 addon databases.
I received no errors.
I can boot minilogin.
Then world.exe still no errors.
When I run the boot5zones.bat I get the following:

Using database 'eq' at localhost
EQEMu 0.3.11 - Wechselwirkende Spieler
Loading zone names, items & NPCs...
EMuShareMem.dll loaded.
Loading NPCTypes from database...
...done

Then I get the error message:

The instruction at "0x00457941" referenced memory at "0x38578a1f". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program.

Anyone got any ideas. I am setting this up exactly the way I have setup the emulator in the past and it worked fine.

[Xarslik]

Which program crashes from the error?

World.exe, Zone.exe, Minilogon or EQ?

[Drewfus]

I have edited my start5zones.bat to only open 2 zone servers. They are the only things that crash. Minilogin and world appear to be working fine.

[Xarslik]

All I can say is make sure you're loading Minilogin, World, and Zone in the correct order. First run Minilogin, make sure it's ready with no error messages. Then run world, and wait for it to finish loading. Finally run your boot5zones bat file.

Could you post the contents of your boot5zones file?

Also, is Zone.exe crashing when you try to connect or when you run Boot5zones?

[n00b8472]

I get the very same error when running boot5zones.bat.

I've tried running zone.exe on win2000 and win98 with the same result

I'm using the binary distribution btw.

[Drewfus]

I have edited my boot5zones.bat and changed the 127.0.0.1 to localhost.

It crashes as soon as the two windows pup up from running the boot5zones.bat. When I get home I am going to change the localhost back to 127.0.0.1 and try that and if that don't work I am going to use my actual ip address.

If either of these fixes my problem I will post what I find.

[Saggs]

I run everything in order, but my boot5zones.exe crashes every time. I have went through the guides over a few times and changed IPs and such and it still crashes.

Here is what is in my boot5zones.exe atm

REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------


@echo off
start zone . 127.0.0.1 7995 127.0.0.1
start zone . 127.0.0.1 7996 127.0.0.1
start zone . 127.0.0.1 7997 127.0.0.1
start zone . 127.0.0.1 7998 127.0.0.1
start zone . 127.0.0.1 7999 127.0.0.1
exit
cls


REM:---------------END------------------------

I had my IP in there along with localhost.

Here is what it says is causing the crash:
AppName: zone.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: emusharemem.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0000191e

Can anyone provide me some information on what might be my problem? :)
Thanks

[tdream]

make sure you have downloaded the item database...once i loaded it, this problem went away

[var1ety]

After browsing around this forum for most of last night and fiddling with DR4 and the release, as well as the DB addon, I finally found a resolution to the issue. Despite being in there, the spells_en.txt file (or whatever it's named) is 0 bytes. Not copying it will cause the application error.

Amusingly enough, there's a debugging message that seems to appear AFTER where the application error appears, stating that "if this is the last message you see you forgot to move spells_en.txt to ....". However, I would get an application error without ever seeing that, leading to much hair pulling.

Anyhow, give that a shot, it fixed my problems with both releases =)