Scheduled patch on June 5th
 

Scheduled patch for June 5th, just letting everyone know.

DO NOT patch unless you are sure the EQEmu will work with it, which I doubt it will. :mad:

Anyway this can be put in about 2-inch high letters? DO NOT PATCH ON THE 5th OR YOUR EQEMU WILL NOT WORK!

Maybe then people will understand. ;)

Tried it, doesnt work :(

rofl

ACK! :(

Patch
 

With all the changes they are making to EQ (GUI, venders and such) will you guys be adding any new content or are you going to concentrate on cracking/utilizing the added features?

IF you concentrate on just staying current with sony, it'd give the Database designers time to catch up.

Also it'd give people some time to look at the source code and maybe develope some better formulas, like combat damage, spell damage, etc.

Will this patch break the emu? I wasn't totally sure, just wanted to warn about the patch just in case

it probably will break the server. like its been said before, dont patch it, the easiest way is to run the game with the patchme command. It totally skips the interface

C:\myeq\eqgame.exe patchme

If this patch is the one from the test server, it crashes EQGame.exe when it loads the server list when you log in. Besides that I'm not really sure if it breaks anything else in game, but I would guess it does if it breaks that =).

*sigh* :(

5th June Patch
 

Nice one Shawn :cool:

/emote gets ready for ALL the posts about emu not working...

Stealth Patch as of May 30
 

Today, they patched eqmain.dll without warning.
The goal seems to be stopping EQW to work, maybe more, but I don't think so. More info here:
http://www.hackersquest.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1710

That's also I think why it says uncorrect Version To kiliriana. Sigh, Now, I'm screwed, don't have the old version anymore lying around =(.

Hope it helps some people.

Maz

Probably too late for many people, but...


1) only patch when the emu is updated...

2a) backup the whole EQ directory
skipping all *.eff *.s3d *.m3d *.xmi and *.dat files should be ok

2b) or backup the most troublesome files
DO NOT ASK FOR THESE FILES!
eqgame.exe
eqmain.dll
eqgfx_dx8.dll
eqspell.dat
eqhost.txt

There may be another one that usually causes trouble when it changes. Your odds of not having trouble increase for each file you back up

DO NOT ASK FOR THESE FILES!

After I patched and ran EQW, I could not use the keyboard. Rebooted computer (since it had been on a while and might have been acting up,) tried again, and no luck. Then started up EQ through the patcher, and it worked ok. Seems to be the eqmain.dll that is causing the problem seeing as the other files were TXT files. Will see if I can do a bit-for-bit comparison of the 2 eqmain.dll files to see what they did.

had a big reply typed but something about not being logged in made it poof hehe

To summarize, I was playing as normal, game crashed, restarted pc, restart EQW, and go to log in and it says incorrect version. Now, when I go to try and open eqw, the keyboard does not function at all (as you can see, it works fine elswhere). I patched eq on the version i play the live servers with, and downloaded the eqmain.dll file, and as you probably guessed it doesnt work with the emu. I tried to log on with my emu version of eq and it didnt work either. seems as if i downloaded eqmain.dll for both of them as they are the same exact size (in bits) :(

Looks like i wont be able to play on the emulator for a few weeks now heh

WOOT i just tried to load up eq (my backup) again and it worked (thank goodness for backup files!!)

the emu doesnt work if you patch though, be warned! ;)

People are reporting the patch breaks EQW even on live servers. As well as the eqemu server.

Welp I am a newb and did not back up my directory (I just got things FINALLY running prefect last night). Today's patch blew me out completely, both eqw and eqgame.exe. How often are there updates, as I'm dead in the water since we're not allowed to request a backup of eqmain.dll before todays patch? I'd really like to get back up and running but hadn't had a chance to backup since there was no point in backing up something that did not work, and I just got it running. Sorry if I'm venting, I'm just really pissed that I finally had it all working yesterday even with my own local server and now I'm totally screwed.

Lon