Guidance on patching and logging in to local server?

[Kickasstimus]

I have a Win 7 machine that I want to get eqemu running on. I follow Akkadius's instructions and used his installer and was able to get a sever up and running --- possibly without error --- that is, no red text walls.

I have a vanilla, unpatched copy of EQ Titanium that I am trying to use to login using my local ip on port 5998 in the eqhosts file. However, EQ keeps trying to patch and I don't know where to alter that behavior. Ultimately, it times out.

Should I use the loopback IP? Is there something else wonky?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

[Uleat]

Make sure that your ini file is saving your change correctly. There can be problems if you are in a window's user directory and not running out of root.

Also, ensure that you have added the 'patchme' argument after 'eqgame.exe' in the shortcut.