OK a bit of an update...
I decided to try and connect to the other servers through the internet... So, I changed all the info in the necessary files (eqhost.txt; loginserver.ini; Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat) and ran the World.exe and Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat and went from there...
I got the appropriate messages in each window according to what the readme file says they should have been.
Ran EQW...
Made it to the server select screen just like I did when I tried without connecting to the internet before. Selected my server (that is the server listed that came up because I was connected) and clicked on the "Play EverQuest" button...
Thought it was going to crash again cause my eqw window was all black and nothing was changing for a really long time, but this time my mouse could move around (which it couldn't do the time I tried before that when eqw stopped responding and I had to "End Task") so I decided to let it keep going... About 15 minutes later I FINALLY got to the character creation/selection screen, successfully created a character and entered the world...
Things seemed to be going just fine, but I noticed that sometimes it took a really long time for the game environment to react to a command I gave it through the interface and I also noticed that the lag meter kept showing excessively heavy lag... After being in the game world for 5 minutes or less it diconnected me from the zone and sent me back to the character selection screen. I retried two more times and had the same result.
I got to wondering if this was just because all the information was being passed from my system to the eqemu.org systems and then back again and this might take a long time, so I thought I'd try to connect to my own server through the minilogin again and see if I could get it to work...
I set everything up for minilogin and edited all the appropriate files and such, and began to connect... Like before, it got all the way to the server selection screen without any trouble. When I was looking at the server selection screen I saw my server and none others, just as it should be, but my server was listed as "LOCKED"!?!
This may have been the case the last time I tried to connect through minilogin and I simply didn't notice, which I suppose could cause eqw to lock up and have to be shut down through the "Close Program" window that comes up when you do Ctrl+Alt+Del.
So now I have a couple new questions...
First, why does my server say it is "LOCKED" when I connect through minilogin and what can I do (if anything) to fix it?
Second, why is my connectivity so bad when I connect to myself through the internet and what can I do (if anything) to fix *that*?
And third, has anyone else had similar problems, and if so, what have you tried to do to fix it?
Any help, ideas, suggestions, condolences
, etc. would be very much appreciated. Also, if anyone has any questions to ask me which may allow you to better help me, feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Kyouchou
P.S. I'm going to post the exact contents of the B5Z.bat, LS.ini, and EQH.txt files as I have them for each connect type...
<<<<<For connecting to localhost server (no internet)>>>>>
>>eqhost.txt
[Registration Servers]
{
"localhost:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"localhost:5999"
}
>>loginserver.ini
### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- do not add an account and password unless a EQEmu Dev member has created an account for you.
### --- adding an account and password only grants the server a green name and is not needed.
# READ README.TXT
[LoginServer]
loginserver=localhost
worldname=Nekura
locked=false
account=
password=
worldaddress=localhost
loginport=5999
>>Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat
REM: ****Read this first!!!****
REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of 127.0.0.1 when you are connecting
REM: To a EQEmu Loginserver.
REM: When you are using minilogin, leave all IP entrys as 127.0.0.1 and if you still getting
REM: Errors try using localhost as the IP instead of 127.0.0.1
REM: zone9x.exe is for use with Windows 98 and ME only.
REM: If you are running Windows NT/2000 or XP use ZoneNT.exe
REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7995 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7996 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7997 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7998 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7999 127.0.0.1
exit
cls
REM:---------------END------------------------
<<<<<For connecting to eqemu.org server (via internet)>>>>>
>>eqhost.txt
[Registration Servers]
{
"eqlogin.eqemu.org:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"eqlogin.eqemu.org:5999"
}
>>loginserver.ini
### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- do not add an account and password unless a EQEmu Dev member has created an account for you.
### --- adding an account and password only grants the server a green name and is not needed.
# READ README.TXT
[LoginServer]
loginserver=eqlogin.eqemu.org
worldname=Nekura
locked=false
account=(it's right, that's all you need to know
)
password=(it's right, that's all you need to know
)
worldaddress=MyIPAddress (I have a dynamic IP address, so I have to fill in my IP Address every time I connect to the internet to do this)
loginport=5999
>>Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat
REM: ****Read this first!!!****
REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of 127.0.0.1 when you are connecting
REM: To a EQEmu Loginserver.
REM: When you are using minilogin, leave all IP entrys as 127.0.0.1 and if you still getting
REM: Errors try using localhost as the IP instead of 127.0.0.1
REM: zone9x.exe is for use with Windows 98 and ME only.
REM: If you are running Windows NT/2000 or XP use ZoneNT.exe
REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off
start zone9x . MyIPAddress 7995 MyIPAddressREM: ****Read this first!!!****
REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of 127.0.0.1 when you are connecting
REM: To a EQEmu Loginserver.
REM: When you are using minilogin, leave all IP entrys as 127.0.0.1 and if you still getting
REM: Errors try using localhost as the IP instead of 127.0.0.1
REM: zone9x.exe is for use with Windows 98 and ME only.
REM: If you are running Windows NT/2000 or XP use ZoneNT.exe
REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off
start zone9x . MyIPAddress 7995 MyIPAddress
start zone9x . MyIPAddress 7996 MyIPAddress
start zone9x . MyIPAddress 7997 MyIPAddress
start zone9x . MyIPAddress 7998 MyIPAddress
start zone9x . MyIPAddress 7999 MyIPAddress
exit
cls
REM:---------------END------------------------
(I have a dynamic IP address, so I have to fill in my IP Address every time I connect to the internet to do this)
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Hope someone can help me out a bit
Min Sys Requirements???
Linear Mode
