Start.bat problems please assist!
 

Hi, i have set up private servers in the past for some other games but for some reason i seem to be having problems with this one :) any help would be greatly appreciated

i wasnt too sure what information you would need so im going to answer from a template i found on the forums.

If you are having WORLD.EXE errors, please provide the following information:
What error you are having and when you are having it.

Its not an Error per se, when i run my start.bat file world.exe opens then immediatly closes. i have run this in a debug mode to see a windows message of "windows cannot find the world.exefile". Im 100% positive its there.

i press enter when my start.bat file tells me to and the new cmd window opens with nothing in it.

b) What OS (Operating System, IE: Windows 95) you are using

Windows xp 64 bit

c) What EMU Version (IE: 0.3.7) you are using

0.7.0-1129

please help me i would greatly apreciate it, thank you all in advance.

JXtreme

Your best best to diagnose a problem like this is open up a command prompt (aka DOS prompt) and then change directory to where your world.exe is and run it, e.g. in the output below, I navigate to my c:\eqemu directory, do a 'dir world.exe' to confirm that it is there, and then execute it:

If world.exe is indeed where you think it is, then it should display the error that is causing it to fail without the window closing.

Hi,

Thanks for your very swift reply.

I attempted what you suggested and if i try to run world.exe from a cmd window it still opens it up in a new one and instantly closes it!

C:\>cd eqemu

C:\EQEmu>world

C:\EQEmu>cd..

C:\>EQemu
'EQemu' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>cd eqemu

C:\EQEmu>dir world.exe
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is E4C7-140C

Directory of C:\EQEmu

02/09/2008 01:11 786,432 world.exe
1 File(s) 786,432 bytes
0 Dir(s) 260,666,970,112 bytes free

C:\EQEmu>

C:\EQEmu>world

C:\EQEmu>

When you are the the c:\eqemu prompt, type in:

What does it display ?

C:\EQEmu>dir world.*
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is E4C7-140C

Directory of C:\EQEmu

02/09/2008 01:11 786,432 world.exe
1 File(s) 786,432 bytes
0 Dir(s) 260,666,970,112 bytes free

C:\EQEmu>

ok after some googling i managed to get it to open im my cmd window by using
"c:\eqemu world.exe -k"

and i get the following

C:\EQEmu>world -k
[Debug] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_world_6112.log
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT] Log settings loaded from log.ini
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEMu 0.7.0
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT] Connecting to MySQL...
[Error] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_error_world_6112.log
[Error] Failed to connect to database: Error: #1045: Access denied for user 'eq'
@'localhost' (using password: YES)
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT_ERR] Cannot continue without a database connection.

C:\EQEmu>



Again thanks in advance for any replies

I am assuming the server is for LAN play, I use this windows setup guide for reference whenever something is giving me problems.
Go to http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...kka=ws1129r222 and review everything you have setup. Pay particular attention to the section setting up eqemu_config.xml which connects the emulator to your database.

Note: Once you get everything working backup your eqemu_config.xml because it will get overwritten by the default .xml file if you ever update your files and will have to be replaced with your personal copy every time.