eqgame.exe has encountered an error
 

Hi all. Have a problem with eqemu. I have fully removed and redownloaded Titanium several times, being sure not to patch anything. After i enter my name and password, before the server select screen load, i get the error message saying eqgame.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Anyone know how this problem can be solved? Thanks

See the part in red?

Thats the issue, EQEmu works off the fresh install off the DISKS, no downloads work.

Not to be a pain, but it seems like I have been seeing a bunch of these errors lately. Personaly, I have never had the issue, but it doest bring up some questions? What is everyone doing wrong. Could it possibly be a bunch of new users on some prebuilt vista oem machines or something..... hmmmm

I don't think the problem is on the client side. One day I log on with no problem.... the next day it takes me 50 attempts to log in. Sometimes the error happens right away.... sometimes it doesn't happen till the server select screen.

Check out this post

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...350#post131350

I'm betting that something like that is closer to the truth of whats going on.

Different issue here for this person.

He is getting an error because he is not using Titanium off the disks.


The same error can happen for many different reasons, don't confuse this person by showing whats wrong with someone else.

Huh.... I thought you get a different error if you're using an incorrect version.

Since he mentioned not patching, I just figured he meant "reinstalled" instead of "redownloaded". But you're right, I should've waited till the OP made that distinction.

My appologies

sadly i get the same errors when ever i try to hit server select :( .... and i gotz the titanium cds siting in front of me.....


hey Matty btw :P

Me again. Mattmeck what i meant was i redownloaded it several times from the disc. I have a fresh install. However i continue to get this error. Im not downloading it via the web, nor am i patching any at all. This time though, it will let me in for maybe, 30 minutes to an hour to play, then im booted right back out by the exact same error.

Im not trying to confuse, but I am just seeing several people having these random crashes. I doubt the just out of the blue all these people are have issues because they downloaded the game, instead of CDs. Some people say they have the cd's.

To solve a problem you have to reduce the varibles with questions like,

1. Has the loginserver been altered in anyway over the past week or two, even the smallest change.

2. Are there any possible Windows Updates that have come available that are for XP 2000 and Vista that are crucial updates like a kernel change or something.

3. Driver updates recently from Ati, Nvidia, Intel that could lead to a issue with EQ.

The last one could only be figured out by finding out what graphics everyone that is having issues are running. The first is easliy solved by a dev saying that it has or has not been changed recently. The second one is a bit trickier has everyone that is having problems would have to check there most recent updates and cross reference them with other OS updates and see if there is a similar one and it is indeed a major update.

We can rule out that the Client is the issue as even CD users are getting the issue and no one is updating. All the clients are the same unless you download it, even then I dont think you can direct download the titanium client. Understandably though, if you do download the client from SOE, of course it will not work because it is not the CDs

I think the error for a incompatible client or like a updated/non-updated one is like 1017 or something like that, unless its changed, i just remember that back when we was chasing Live, not a crash of the client itself. Just a connection notice.

ok here my situation, i have a fresh instal from the titanium cd's. i have not updated my windows xp now any of my drivers. everything is set exactly the same as it was before eqemu went down a few days ago, nothing at all has changed. i havent patched eq at all. i never got this error before the site went down the other day, perhaps just maybe something got screwed up when the site went down? might be something there

OK downloading and installing are 2 different things /boggle


New error since the change in hosting, i guess something is broke and needs to be fixed.

I am sure by now someone told FNW or Doodman, so just need to wait on a fix.

I was having the same problem after wipeing and going back to xp from vista.
are any of you having the problem use a VIA chipset motherboard? after i updated my 4n1 drivers, the game started working again!

here is the link to d/l http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

Never though of hosting, but I guess that affects the LS too, DOH :>

I actually havent had this trouble until yesterday...
And the only thing I know I did before that is to install the april edition of directx...

And now after that I get alot of SSSE errors over and over again.. And apparently I cant remove the upgrade of DirectX...

maybe this will shed some light into the troubles? Might it be sound issues on the server select or... hmm...

Need to investigate further...

i think the link the post about SSSE errors sounds pretty much what the problem could be as that is exactly when my computer hangs and then after a second attempt freezes totally!

There are so many people getting problems with this could it be something server side? it confuses me that i can connect off of my computer that is hard lined to the web and yet i cannot connect off of my wireless computer both of wich are using the same internet connection*rather boggled*

*EDIT* my hard lined computer has now got the exact same problem!!

any ideas anyone?

This is a very long standing problem, and actually it can be caused by a variety of issues. Some of them have easy fixes like an eqclient.ini change, or forcing the survey, but some are still unknown and have no immediate fix. I have a machine that has been doing this for several months, and at this point I have nailed it down to a hardware incompatibility or a system software issue in my case. The trick is, to keep trying. Eventually (one time I counted near 100 tries) I got in.

My 4 other machines haven't ever had this problem. 3 of them are running EQ using Cedega on Linux, and the last is XP, ironically with nearly identical hardware as the machine that does have the issue.

Consequently, this problem doesn't seem to effect the 0.6.2 client at all. (just to cover my own ass, don't ask about it, you can't have it)

With all due respect cavedude, I can't see how it could be a hardware compatibility issue if it sometimes works. I can have two clients running on my machine and one will login and the other will continually get the error. I certainly don't claim to have the understanding of the emu that you do... so if you're positive thats the problem then I defer to you.... but it just doesn't make sense to me. Furthermore, in my tests I never have the issue when using a minilogin, only when using the normal login server which, IMO, points to the login server as the source of the problem.

Bah am going crazy, in my 40 tries no to get pass the serverselect, worked great last night and now today I cant get in, and I havent changed a shit, and its the same as everyone else is talking about the eqgame.exe error.

Have to be the server from all others posts, cant be here at home

i recently started having this issue as well. in my case, i can get to the log in server just fine unless i have my server up and running. not sure what caused this but im open to ideas. this issue started yesterday 5/26/07. im running the current eqemu and sql. i just find it odd that i cant log in on the same pc that the server is running on any more. now if i get on the wifes circa 1990 computer... itll let me get to the log in server no problem and even log into the server :?

am going insane now, 100 tries now and still not working, and I wanted to play all sunday buuhuuu

aha! i found a way to let me in!!!!dont know why.... but when you get to the log in screen ( where you put in your screen name and password. i went to options, and clicked the set to default. saved it and exited out. restarted and went back to options and set all my options back to how they were originally and magically i did not get the error again. let me know if it works for you as well.

dident work :( guess am gonna try reinstall it again bahhh

also i read somewhere here on the site that anothe rpossible fix was to make sure your computer screen resolution is set to the same as the resolution your game options resolution is set to. that fixed a friends issue, but wouldnt fix mine.

Started getting this for the first time today. To help rule some stuff out, I'm using the CD's. I installed about 3 months ago as system admin, then i loged in all my guys, set up their user interface exactly how I wanted it. Created another login account for my computer that has no change rights to anything on the PC. I run EQ from there, the last thing I changed as the admin was a week and a half ago, and that was replacing the IP in host file with eqemulator.net. Since that time i've logged in multiple times, i've made no window updates, no system updates, no driver updates, no spyware, no viruses, no client changes, nothing cause I don't have access to.

Why does the login server send a survey?

Hey, get this.

1. I type in my login and password.
2. Unplug my computer from my router.
3. Hit login fast.
4. Plug router in.

This gets my to the server select screen 100% of the time no SSSE.

To all of you people conversing about how this error has been around for awhile and you got it too until *insert remedy here* this is not the same problem you all have had. Mattmeck's explanation makes perfect sense so just wait until they fix it. Until then, quit posting about how you can't get in because none of us can either.

P.S. The only person to actually suggest a way to bypass the CURRENT error is the poster above me and currently I can't test it because mine is working :) !

I am still getting this error frequently. Been playing for months and now it happens 90% of my login attempts.

-Vanven

Locking because people arent reading the whole thread, this post from the first page shoulda cleared it up.