Light on Error 1017

[Bently]

Hello all.

This extract from the dbg.txt file in your EQ directory may shed some light on this annoying error message.

[Sat Mar 23 17:39:28 2002]00091:ERROR: Missing or corrupt datafile: Spdat.eff

Please note at the time, spdat.eff was in the base EQ directory and in the EQemu directory. I dont have a solution yet but I know for a fact, that fixing this error will allow you to get past the error 1017 you recieve when trying to get to the character select screen.

Bently

[strychn]

are you using eqw?
i get that error when i try to use the eq client fullscreen. if you are, try using eqw.

[Lyenu X`Arie]

You get that if you don't run EQ in fullscreen mode using DOS. If you use a shortcut, or try to "run" then EQ thinks the EQ directory is like C:\windows\. Sortof sucks.. but make sure you use DOS and CD into the EQ directory.

[Bently]

At one stage I did use EQemu for a while. My HDD crashed and I had to re-partition it and as a result I lost everything I had done.

In my experience I never had to use a dos box to get the emu working.

I made a copy of my EQ directory, named that "Emulated Everquest" and placed the emu in a folder named "Emulator" <-- gee wasnt that original, and setup everything to run from there. This is over a LAN btw.

The shortcut I used was the one made from eqgame.exe (I think) with patchme stuck on the end of the target area. I noticed now that sometimes you have to use eqw in order for it to work, but the patchme thing worked for me before my HDD crashed.

A friend of mine has to use the eqw way otherwise he got Error 1017 after selecting a character.

Now that I have reinstalled I get bumped back to char select after logging into a character ;(

I have to admit, when I was using it I was very happy with it. At the time, I was disappointed in the damage calculations (What, hitting for 700's, dream on ;P) and some of the spells. But it was fun whacking friends around and then towering over them with #size.

Bently