2nd EQ installation ?
 

hey there, thanks for taking the moment to check out my question. I have a legit copy of EQ Titanium.. so thats all taken care of. I do have an amd64 x2 ... but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. My question for the moment is this:

Given that I already have 1 installation of Everquest that is patched to live... how do I go about installing a second 'clean' installation from the Titanium discs that I can use to play on the emu with? When I open up the setup program for Titanium it just brings me to the 'Modify, Replace, Uninstall' window.

I'd rather not delete my live folder or modify it and have to go through a 6 hour download again... but I will if I have to.

Thanks again for taking the time to read this. I searched the forum and wiki and found nothing relating to this, but I'll keep looking and attempting to figure it out :)

This is how I would do it, I would take the entire EQ folder and move it to another location. Make a folder and call EQ_live, and drop all the files from your live install to there.

Now you can run the install and remove that first copy, because you backed it up right? Just run the install again and you will have a clean titanium. You can also do this by changing registry values, but not going to go that route :)

Hopes this helps
~LL~

I've already done this... I renamed the \Sony\Everquest\ folder to \Sony\EmuQuest\ and just did another install from the disc. The only fix was to edit the shortcuts before the second install. In the case where you have the existing patched version, just re-rename the folders back to the way you want to use them and rename the new install to \Sony\EmuQuest\.

Ok thank you. I guess I was just trying to overthink things.
I'll give the run down on everything I'm doing to make it easier for others in my situation (when they search the forums, like good little newbies should :D )

1.) I moved the contents of the folder containing all my SoE Live compatible files over to a different directory (from 'C:/Program Files/Sony/Everquest/' to 'C:/Program Files/Sony/EQLIVELAWLROFL')

2.) then ran the 'Repair' tool from the titanium discs .. this, I am assuming, reverted the 'C:/Program Files/Sony/Everquest/' files back to their titanium versions

3.) I did the necessary eqhost changes (which didn't work right away - it wouldn't let me save the changed eqhost.txt file! I actually had to delete the file and make a new one with the correct eqemu address in it)

4.) I made the eqgame patchme shortcut on my desktop. Set the compatibilty mode to run as Windows Xp Service Pack 2 (I have vista which is very 'un-lol' sometimes, if I had to describe it with a br0sp34k word .. BUT it definitley runs most games much faster/better/smoother/awesomer than XP did.) Anyway..

From there I was able to get onto the server select screen but the game wont load from there.. I just have a blank black screen in the game window.
In case my dual core processor is to blame:
1.) I went to set the CPU affinity of eqgame.exe in the task mangler to CPU0.. but it was already set this way by default.
2.) I tried to download the AMD optimizer but the install for that failed. (I now realize I probably didn't 'run as administrator' when i should have, if my next course of action doesn't help I will try it again.

I've now deleted all the files in the directory i'm using for EqEmu and doing a full reinstall of Titanium just in case one of the 'live' associated files was mucking me up.

I'll repost once it's completely reinstalled and I give it another go trying to run the game.

Also, here are the specs to my computer, if one of these may be causing the problem:
Windows Vista SP1 (soon to be 64 bit version if I ever get unlazy and install it)
4400+ AMD64 X2 processor
OCZ 4GB DDR2-800 Ram (http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail...temno=A4308304)
Nvidia 8600 GTS 256mb video card (http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail...temno=A9602838)

Ok doing a fresh, new, clean, pretty install of Titanium did the trick.. now I just need to wrestle with my dual core CPU situation. No character model animations in game at all (fighting, running, jumping, mob falling on death, etc). So I'll play with that stuff and follow the guide. thanks for the input again.

if you didn't notice this topic before make sure to read this, very well done and helpfull. Dual/Quad Core CPU Fixes