Connect without EQW, or make EQW full screen ?

[Sousuke Sagara]

I finnaly figured out how to get rid of the 1017 error and I joined server but EQW is so hard to use because the window is so small i can barley read anything ... Is there anyway I can set i t for full screen ? or is there a way I can connect to a server and play without using EQW ??? Thanks in advance all


Also i wanted to add that when using EQW the word/letters in the game are all weird lookin ith like choppy lines and stuff next to them and the sound is glitchy sometimes...Is this normal ?

I finnaly figured out how to get rid of the 1017 error and I joined server

What did you do ... may add to the knowledge base for people who see the Search link before asking the same question about Error 1017

or is there a way I can connect to a server and play without using EQW ???

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10309&highlight=patchme

[Sousuke Sagara]

To fix it all I did was patch regular EQ, and it downloaded a patch then I re-downloaded the login thingy from th Guide section and it worked


:EDIT: This isnt working for me i tried putting in what he said then I tried puttin in C:\Program Files\EverQuest\eqgame.exe" patchme and it still dont work .... Any idea on what I should do ?

[blackst6]

it is possible to log onto emu without using eqw. this will probably only work temporarily... until everquest comes with a new patch that is not compatable with 5.0, but until then, patch like you regularily do, THEN change you eqhost.txt file and THEN clink PLAY.

:EDIT: This isnt working for me i tried putting in what he said then I tried puttin in C:\Program Files\EverQuest\eqgame.exe" patchme and it still dont work .... Any idea on what I should do ?

What error message do you get ? Is your EQGAME.EXE installed in C:\Program Files\EverQuest ?

[Sousuke Sagara]

Yeah it is installed there .... But thats ok I used the other guys idea and it worked hehe ... But I got a question are the letters and graphics and allthat supposed to be messed up the way they are ? like letters and stuff have lines and pixxles commin out of them and makes it hard to read and like some menus and lines through them and all...Just looks all glitchy, is it supposed to ?

Do you have the latest version of DirectX (9) and drivers for your video card ?

[Sousuke Sagara]

Umm yeah I think so .... but now this this isnt working like I change the hosttxt then hit play and it starts the game i connect oserver make my character but then i try to Enter World, it just sits there and freezes ... Icant alt-F4, alt-tab, alt-enter cant do anything ... so ... i guess back to this command thing i gotta put in Run ...


" What error message do you get ? Is your EQGAME.EXE installed in C:\Program Files\EverQuest ? "

It says cannot find C:\Program make sure I typed it in correctly....but when I take the patchme off at the end of that line it tries to run the eqgame.exe and says to use the patch thing or somthin ... as if i double clicked the eqgame.exe in the EQ folder ... and Yes that is where my eqgane.exe is ... in programfiles, then everquest .... So any help is appricahted hehe

[Scorpious2k]

Instead of C:\Program Files\EverQuest\eqgame patchme try C:\Progra~1\EverQuest\eqgame patchme

[Sousuke Sagara]

nope says cant find it all the way up to the end of the eqgame.exe part .... Im sure theres people who connect through it this way, so what u type in ???? some guy said somthin like >EQEMU director patchme ...... but that dont work either ....

[sup2069]

EQW is so hard to use because the window is so small i can barley read anything


How small?? My Eqw is is ful size with EQw but it retains the windows classis window frame for XP. Not sure what happened to your Directx files or computer, but the only times my Eqw is very small is on occasion.

Try closing it out then reopen it.

If nothing post your directx Diagnostics here and maybe I can help you or a dev?

[x-scythe]

unless this is a typo i see that you put this
C:\Program Files\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme

you forgot the other quotation marks...

"C:\Program Files\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme

you can change the directory to wherever your eqgame.exe is patched also

use a search next this has already been answered before

[jawa21]

In order to make EQw work full screen, it needs to be the same res or higher than your desktop.