What worked for me was setting my desktop resolution to 1280x1024. EQ would give the error whenever I tried to start it with my desktop at 1600x1050. Once in game I could then change it to 1600x1050.

Weird.

I had the problem today and corrected it.

I also happen to play Shards of Dalaya and I always run EQ Play nice to on the pc when i'm on it.

I killed this app and now its working fine....
just a thing for someone to try if they fit that bill.

I got mine fixed... sort of...


I got it to load after copying someones eqclient.ini in this thread, for some reason I like like 5-6 lines in my ini and that was it.

It does not like to start up in full screen mode at 1440x900 my desktop res, but it will start up at that res in windowed mode... I'll deal with windowed mode as long as it's working

Dr. Woo

I got it working, somebody posted their eqclient.ini details, I C&P'd sections one at a time.. it didnt work until I pasted the defaults section... I believe it was because it is now forcing the windowed mode, for it to work.

Plz Help
 

Hi there ,,, i was wondering if anyone could assistme. every so often my server works fine ,,, then all of the sudden the next day to a week or later wont work ,,, i try logging in and when i hit enter world on the character select screen i get a zone.exe error i have the newest files i do believe ,,, also only way i can log in is if i go into navicat ,,, and put the characters manually into pok ( poknowledge ) which gets annoying and also when it does load up normally how can i make the tutorial work ? mines of gloomingdeep?


And all this happens when you are not in pok and if you try logging to another zone crashes , if u make a new toon = crashes ,,, so once again have to go to navicat and put them in pok in order to work partiall just that zone ? ? ?


any thoughts any1 ? plz i have had issues for a long time now :-?

Copy and paste this guy's eqclient.ini into yours. Fixed my crash on startup.

All I did to fix this problem is change the graphic options from resolution of 1200x600 or whatever to a lower res, unclick (turn off all graphic options).
It's either that, that fixed it or left clicking, going to "properties" then clicking the tab "compatability" and click "run this program as administrator"
Hope this helps someone out ! :D

Bleh
 

I've tried everything on this thread and still no luck. I want to play this emu. Is this all an elaborate hoax?

Laptop Video Drivers
 

So, I had an error, as soon as I would try to open EQ (using a shortcut to c:\eq\eqgame.exe patchme), the screen would flash and go to a black box (the normal startup routine) but just before it took you to the EULA, EQ would crash. I'm running an Acer Aspire 9300 with an AMD processor and NVidia GeForce Go 6100 video card. This is a fresh load of Windows XP SP3, with the latest DirectX 9.0c and a fresh install of the Everquest Titanium client. I had downloaded and installed all the drivers from the manufacturer's website, including the video drivers. I tried to update the drivers from NVidia's website, but it wouldn't let me install them, saying that no compatible hardware was installed. I did a manual driver installation of NVidia's 295.73 drivers by pointing the hardware installation wizard at the drivers folder in the unpacked NVidia files. I can now startup my EQ client and actually get to the EULA, SOE screen, and to the log in screen. It seems like updating my video drivers made it so EQ could work.