December 18th Patch

[Rogean]

The December 18th Patch <u>&lt;font color=red>Has Broken&lt;/font></u> EQEmu.

This means <u>DO NOT PATCH</u> Without making a backup of your existing EQ Folder.

[haecz]

tnx for sharing... lets just corss our fingers that we dont get spammed with posts asking about why they cant play :s

[Ephezian]

Is there a place to download the previous patchs? I have a dial up connection and have to reinstall. Any help would be appreciated.

Ephezian

Originally Posted by Ephezian

Is there a place to download the previous patchs? I have a dial up connection and have to reinstall. Any help would be appreciated.

Ephezian

short answer = no

long answer = that would be handing out warz and you even asking the question you did is against the rules and can get you banned

[danielwow12]

Hey, thanks for the forewarning!

So, do i just need to not run the updater?

[RippaN]

verant is trying to be smart when they first made us confirm that the patch didnt broke eqemu, then right after that they updated with a destroying file so everyone thought it was ok to patch.. i think maybe.. not.. or.. something =)

[haecz]

Originally Posted by danielwow12

So, do i just need to not run the updater?

what?!
that post makes no sense?
is anythin wrong,cant u play? :s
im confused ;P

[Canadili]

is there anyway to reverse the patch, if you already ran it? i tried sing eqemu patcher but it doesnt work anymore

[Tertiary]

Originally Posted by Canadili

is there anyway to reverse the patch, if you already ran it? i tried sing eqemu patcher but it doesnt work anymore

No, you need to wait until EQEmu catches up with todays patch. This could take a while, just check back every week or so to check on progress.

[kettle]

There is a way to reverse patch, I use WinXp in start/programe/ accessorie/system tools/system restore.

Thanks for warning

[Arastiroth]

I have patched forward, but have another computer with the old patch on it still -- does anyone know what files have broken the game, and if I just replace those with the older files would it work? Or anything that anyone else could tell me about getting those to work? Would I have to replace all the files that were updated, or just a couple?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks. =)

[a_Guest03]

Technically, you only have to replace a couple! Finding out which couple won't take you long. Search your everquest folder for any and all files replaced 12/17/03 or 12/18/03. When you have compiled a list, you can replace only those. It's probably faster to replace it all.

[Arastiroth]

I looked at my Everquest.log file and at the bottom it says:

[19:15:33] -------- CRC Validation ------------------------------
[19:15:33] CRC for eqmain.dll: -1229297779
[19:15:33] CRC for spdat.eff: -1521775102
[19:15:33] CRC for eqtext.txt: 126010213
[19:15:33] CRC for fr_eqtext.txt: 73989424
[19:15:33] CRC for de_eqtext.txt: -1170578037
[19:15:33] CRC for eqgame.exe: 368550649
[19:15:33] Preparing to launch eqgame.exe
[19:15:33] -------- CRC Validation End --------------------------

Would that mean those are the files that were updated?

[Tolarn]

You should be able to just replace those files with the old ones and have it work

[haecz]

actually you will need to replace "eqp_config.xml" and "eqp_strings.xml" aswell...
they are important, filled with info about the version
of EQ, so if you do not recover these files, you
will not be able to play.