Issue with World.exe sence 0.4.3 release
 

a) What error you are having and when you are having it?
When I try and run world.exe it closes the following is the text when I try and run world.exe from a dos prompt:
C:\EQEmu>world.exe
Useing database 'eq' at localhost
[Status] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEMu 0.4.3
[Error] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEMu 0.4.3
Loading Variables, zones & items...
LoadEmuShareMemDLL::Load() failed error=120
Error: Could not load item data

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

c) What EMU Version (IE: 0.3.7) you are using?
EQEMU 0.4.3

d) What you are connecting to (Minilogin, Publiclogin, Logging/Hosting into eqlogin.eqemu.net)?
Publiclogin

e) Paste the text out of these files:
boot5zones.bat, db.ini and loginserver.ini (mask out PASSWORDS please).

Boot5zones.bat:
REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

if NOT exist spells_en.txt goto NOSPELL

start zone . My IP from winipcfg 7995 My IP from winipcfg
start zone . My IP from winipcfg 7996 My IP from winipcfg
start zone . My IP from winipcfg 7997 My IP from winipcfg
start zone . My IP from winipcfg 7998 My IP from winipcfg
start zone . My IP from winipcfg 7999 My IP from winipcfg
exit
cls

:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_en.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE

REM:---------------END------------------------


Db.ini:
# READ README.TXT!

[Database]
host=localhost
user=MySqlUsername
password=MySqlPassword
database=eq
compression=off


### --- This file tells world.exe what computer mySQL is on. Host should
### --- be left "localhost" unless mysql is on a differant computer than world.exe.

LoginServer.ini:
### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- Leave the account and password field BLANK.

### --- Public Login is un-supported as is LAN playing. We reccomend using the EQEmu.net Loginserver ALWAYS.

### --- NOTE: Starting 6-1-2002, you can no longer use the word "Server" in worldname.
### --- NOTE2: the word "Server" is added to each server automaticly.

# READ README.TXT

[LoginServer]
loginserver=eqlogin1.eqemu.net
loginserver2=eqlogin2.eqemu.net
loginport=5999
loginport2=5999
worldname=Omnipotent's Test
worldaddress=MyIPaddress from www.whatsmyip.com
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Standalone
ServerPort=5999
UplinkAddress=
UplinkPort=
UplinkAccount=
UplinkPassword=

Same here

Did you upgrade your database to the new version? If not, I'd recommend using TheOne's 42to43.sql update sql.

Could you possibly link it? I cant find it... Thank you.

I still get this problem when using a completely up-to-date DB (I dropped the old one then sourced in the new db.sql that came with 4.3).
The error message doesn't seem to be DB-related.

hmm
 

Seems like it does that error if you have NO item in your database, even if you have an empty item table it will call this error. Did not get this error myself but I heard about it from a few other ppl. Try downloading a db addon and sourcing items in the database.

Thank you for the try, but none of this helped. Still getting the same error.

Anyone have any bright ideas?

emusharemem.dll
 

it looks like we may have the wrong ver of this dll......

i have the same problem here any1 help us?

Intresting idea
 

Could someone with a working 4.3 server please post their EMuShareMem.dll file so I can check this out?

...a few observations
 

The important part of the message seems to be "LoadEMUShareMemDll::Load() failed". I am not a seasoned Win32 developer, but my experiece with C++ leads me to believe this is a failure to load EMUShareMem.dll into memory. It seems to me that this library is loaded first when the items table is opened.

If my memory serves me correctly, the EMUShareMem.dll code was modified to perform some sort of caching with version 0.4.3. Also, it seems that this error has been reported primarilly by Win9X users whereas Win2K/XP users have reported their 0.4.3 servers behave properly.

I thought I'd download the source and take a look, but this may be better reviewed by more experienced developers. Please let me know if I am mistaken at any point so I'm not barking up the wrong tree. ;)

Thanks.

Look for the link drawde posted. I sent him a recompiled .dll, and a few people have had success using that one where they were getting errors with the release version.