About to give up
 

Well I for one am about to give up.

I have searched the forums over and over again for Error 1017 and anything else that has to do with being diconnected from other servers.

Let me start by stating I am new here -=Obvious=-
I have no desire right now to start my own server so all of the server side stuff is irrelevant to me, and my problem.

I wish to find the EMU i like by play/testing the emu, as in playing on someone else creation seeing the features and playability fator before investing hours on end into my own server.

I have had my own UO server and kept it up and running for 3 years solid, the only downtimes were natural cleanups and server upgrades/patches.

So this is something I would LIKE to eventually do, but I would really like to playtest things first ya know.

Now heres the problem in short order - With eqgame.exe patchme things are fubard I have read all docs and followed them to a T with it and natta on the results error 1017 patch server error everytime. Ok so I go grab a copy of EQW - with it I can get to the Character Selection screen and as soon as I click on Create New - BSOD <Black Screen of Death -=Not Blue=-> You Have Been Disconnected - everytime - every server. It never spits a true error to give with EQW just the discconection notice then straight to the server login list. This is driving me mad!! Mad I tell you!!

I can not find a single post of how to fix this or even a remote post of inspiration to drive me to look at something I have not looked at yet.

Heres the details of my system.
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Amd Thunderchicken 1.4
256megs
DSL direct connection not LAN
Sygate Firewall -=Disabled=-
Nortor AV -=Disabled=-
ATI Radeon 64megs
DirectX 8.0a
WinME
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If any other details are needed I will provide.

I appreciate any help that may be given, in the search for an answer that eludes me. I would really like tobe able to try this rig out and se what it can do so I might be able to see what I can do with it.

Thanks,
Lorath

p.s. Yes I have read the readme inside and out.

First question
 

Did you do the June 5th patch? If so, that would be your problem. You'll have to wait for version 3.4 to come out before you can play.

- Charlie

Hrmm
 

Ding! /bad pun intended

Well I guess that answers that. Sad thing is, I was just about to reply here and let everyone know they get free reign for the next 30 seconds to slap me..

I was actively seeking an answer to a problem - therefore I had not yet read other posts that did not concern my problem directly - whilst waiting I sifted through quite a few posts and realized this was the trouble - so now for the next 30 seconds everyone formally has legal right to slap me silly............................................. .................................................. .................................................. ....


times up

Anyway thanks for reply anyway - I sit eagerly waiting for the fix to come around so I may'st continue my endeavors into this world in which we all love and hate and hate to love.

Lorath

*slap*

Not that it much matters at this point, but for me the 1017 error was a seperate issue. If you were using minilogin, there is a newer one than the build distributed with the latest eqemu archive.

I am also a new here and only stumbled upon this after taking the 6/5 patch so I was secretly doomed from the start...but the new minilogin fixed the 1017 for me.

Of course, I still crash back to server select ....

skrum

Hrmm
 

Well, I know this is a pretty much anti-HackersQuest place - but after todays EQLive patch theirs somehow works.. it didnt last night.. at all.. same problems as EQemu. So I dunno.. it didnt change anything with EQemu so I am kinda baffled now.


Hope things get situated and wroked out soon though.

In the mean time I think AO live servers are back up so..

/me goes play with his pet meatballs for awhile

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I've been playing around with Ethernalquest too and I've found quite a few bugs with it. My intentions are to get the latest versions of each as they come out. I just heard about EQEMu after I downloaded patch so.... crap.

I hope EQEMu will be better or as a good as Ethernalquest when I try it out (basically the second .3.4 comes out).

There's a thread on 1017 in either this forum or the General forum.