Hey I also just started gettin this prob
But still no luck... Using the patchme method it crashes with no warning, using EQW it says eqgame.exe has encountered an error and needs to shut down, blah blah blah...
Hmm... mine only started recently ... any ideas?
No wait ... got it - all ya gotta do is recopy your whole EQ / EQEMU folder back , but leave eqhost.txt alone!
Worked with me!
Good luck!
(Win. XP)