Game does not work after 19/3/02 Verant Update

[Hardarac]

The title says it all realy

After i did an update for the real live game the emu version fails on the server side with the following msg in the zone boot.

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New client from ip: 192.168.0.5 port:1507
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4684, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4686, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4682, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4686, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4686, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4908, lootdrop_id=60
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4908, lootdrop_id=60
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4687, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4684, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4683, lootdrop_id=53
Error in AddLootDropToNPC: dbitem=0, item#=4908, lootdrop_id=60
Login packet 1
Login packet 2
Client disconnected (!pm.CA): Elviralocal
Client disconnected (cs=d): Elviralocal
Dropping client: Process=false, ip=192.168.0.5, port=1507

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Now my guess is that the errors that are shown have very little to do with the problem ... however .. I thoughti would put them in to be sure '




Marv.

[Hardarac]

And I have just confirmed by copying an old backup the old version works again ... so it isnt sommat i messed around with in the Dbase :)

[Baltar]

damn there on to us lol. ok that patch lasted about a week. VI must be getting pissed.

[Giro]

I Confirm :(

Game does not work after today verant patch

Client error :
Error 1017: cannot login to the everquest server : you may need to re run the update patch

Server error :
LoginServer.ini read.
Using database 'eq' at localhost
Loading items...done.
Loading guild ranks...done.
World server listening on: port 9000
Connected to LoginServer: localhost:5999
New TCP connection: 127.0.0.1:1164
New TCP connection: 127.0.0.1:1165
New zoneserver: #1 127.0.0.1:1165
New zoneserver: #2 127.0.0.1:1164
New TCP connection: 127.0.0.1:1166
Zoneserver SetConnectInfo: 127.0.0.1:1164: 127.0.0.1:7804
Zoneserver SetConnectInfo: 127.0.0.1:1165: 127.0.0.1:7802
New TCP connection: 127.0.0.1:1167
New zoneserver: #3 127.0.0.1:1167
New zoneserver: #4 127.0.0.1:1166
New TCP connection: 127.0.0.1:1168
New zoneserver: #5 127.0.0.1:1168
Zoneserver SetConnectInfo: 127.0.0.1:1166: 127.0.0.1:7801
Zoneserver SetConnectInfo: 127.0.0.1:1167: 127.0.0.1:7800
Zoneserver SetConnectInfo: 127.0.0.1:1168: 127.0.0.1:7803
60999 New client from ip: 127.0.0.1 port:1171
Logged in: Local: eqemu
Sending list of guilds
Client timeout
Removing client from ip:127.0.0.1 port:1171

[Drawde]

I only hope that the constant patching recently is just to do with tweaking SoL and the recent balancing changes in EQ, not to try and patch EQEmu out of existence..
The best solution seems to be to have 2 subdirectories of your EQ directory, one with the current files (the .exes and .dlls, eqtext.txt and eqhost.txt), and one with the ones that work with EQEmu. When you want to run EQLive or EQEmu just copy over the relevant files to your EQ directory.

[TheClaus]

Drawde is right people. You don't even have to copy your entire directory if your low on space. Just copy any .exe, .dll and you should be safe.

[Yt4/GOAMYIo=]

After trying to understand what has changed in the last patch, it seems the structure of the player character has changed. Since I couldnt find exactly what has changed, I have disassembled eqgame.exe and removed all error check on the player character packet and, miracle, it works again ! So there must not have been many changes and the team should catch that up fairly quickly (I hope)

[Lyenu X`Arie]

Thanks for the info, but we've already fixed it, but thank you all the same =).

[Giro]

The problem is not fixed, i downloaded the New Release! 0.2.6 but the problem persist.

Login ok
I select my server
Everquest start to looking for graphic and model
Finishing loading world and i return to server selection screen with this error :
Error 1017: cannot login to the everquest server : you may need to re run the update patch

[Trumpcard]

Then I would have to guess that its something in your configuration, I havent had any problems with 0.2.6


There have been alot of database changs between 2.3 and 2.6. Are you dropping the old database and importing in the new one?

I would recommend trying that..

[Giro]

Yes, i have completely removed the old one and i utilized the 0.2.6 db.

Same problem...:(

[Lyenu X`Arie]

My guess is your server isn't configured properly somewhere, and I would get on IRC and we'll guide you through a trouble shooting, or you're not starting up eqgame.exe right if you're running in fullscreen. If you want me to help you over the forums (incase you don't know how to use IRC, which I know some people that don't), then you can just PM me your db.ini, loginserver.ini and boot5zones.bat and I'll look at them.