I need some advise with this error please...

[shargraith]

eqgame.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconveniece.

If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost.

I have no clue what i need to do to fix this one... It was working fine, i have no clue what happend...Its quite agrivating really.

[SoH Fox]

Odds are you just need to restart your pc.. if that dosent help try updating windows, If that dosent help than i dunno what to tell you.

[shargraith]

i restarted and i updated...

are you SURE that the patchme is in correctly?

[wize_one]

hosts file not being read only will also cause that

[shargraith]

I did every thing suggested here (or it is already done) and theproblem still occurs. . .

[shargraith]

Well i got that error fixed but i patched whe i wasnt suposed to know i find out, so i have to wait to get that fixed. Well thanks for helping guys.

[Cailin]

I had the same problem after installing my original release (2001 version) of EQ and patching to live (12/17). It was frusturating that the patch took a week (slow Internet connection) but what was more frusturating was when trying to load eqgame.exe, the application crashed. I tried it on another, more powerful computer of mine, and the application ran fine.

I tried a lot of things to get it to work but none of them seemed to budge. Soooo in a last-ditch effort here's what I did:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\EverQuest (or wherever your EQ installation is)
2. Look for the file "OptionsEditor.exe" which will be included in your patch up to live. The "date modified" on this file is telling me 6/22/2004. Run this file.
3. Select your video card from the list and click Next.
4. Select as many of the new models as you want displayed. The application is going to suggest how many models you should display. Since I've got 1gb of RAM it's telling me that I should use all the models. Click Next.
5. Here's where you can do some troubleshooting. I suggest dropping your resolution to 800x600 first and seeing if that will make the game boot. If not, try turning off Mip Mapping. What ended up happening with me was that the game was trying to set a refresh rate that Windows was saying my monitor doesn't support and therefore everything crashed.

If this doesn't work try searching the knowledgebase at www.eqlive.com.