"Enter World" Problems

InsaneWallaby · #1 04-29-2006, 10:15 AM

Lets try this again...maybe my post will work...

I have a problem playing the game. I can log on a server fine. I can create a character fine. I have run the EQ version checker, and I have the same version as others. I am running a fresh install of Titanium. I have killed all firewalls, antivirus programs, and background programs. However, despite this, whenever I click "Enter World" from the character selection screen, I cannot enter; the program hangs for a few minutes and times out instead, booting me back to the login screen. I have even tried it completely unprotected. I have tried three different servers, all with matching versions, and three different cities to login to, Cabilis, Freeport, and Qeynos, each to no avail. I am running a freshly reformatted NTFS file system, Windows XP, and have updated all of my video drivers for my ATI Sapphire video card. this video card has worked in the past a few years ago with a previous version of EQ and EQEmu, around the same time that Plains of Power was released. Other 3D games, including Doom 3 and the highly buggy Dungeon Lords as well as the extremely memory intensive MMORPG Rubies of Eventide worked extremely well on my computer, so the problem is not universal.

Hah, and I thought making a server would be the hard part. I can't even seem to get into the world on this game. Does anybody have any suggestions for my problem? I could not find the answer on the forum or in SonyEQ support, so any help would be appreciated. Oh, and lastly, I am not sure if this problem reproduces itself on live. Thanks!

Amazing! Finally worked. Deleted my parenthesis and hyphens...odd...

attempt37 · #2 04-29-2006, 01:06 PM

Are you sure that you are trying to log into 0.7.0 servers? Titanium installs will only work with version 0.7.0 servers. If anything I would think this is a version mismatch error, but if you are attempting to login to the 0.7.0 servers then it might be something else.

InsaneWallaby · #3 04-29-2006, 01:10 PM

Yes; one of the servers listed was the big one from the two servers at the top of the list. Sorry, I can't get specifics, because I'm working right now. Ahh, the joys of a leisurely job. Anyways, though, all three servers I tried were listed as 0.7.0 servers. I wish it was as simple as that, trust me, I truly do.

InsaneWallaby · #4 05-02-2006, 10:17 AM

So, yeah, I decided to blow that free 30 day subscription thingy on EQ to see if it was a graphics card issue. So, I patched and whatnot so that I could try out normal Everquest. They wanted my credit card information on the account, though, and I couldn't play until I subscribed despite having 30 days free, so I decided to give up.

Well, about 3 days later, I got an email saying "You haven't played on your 30 days yet, so now your account is activated!" And, sure enough, it was. Onward I went...

Anyways, normal Everquest worked fine. I was able to create a character, hit enter world, and start playing with no problems whatsoever. I even killed a few things and chatted with a friend from four years back in the game, found out how some of the top guilds in the game disbanded and servers merged, ran around for an hour, and so on, without crashing once. So, my computer is not the problem, but I still cannot play everquest from a fresh install of titanium (without the patches, of course.) It always boots me when I select a character and hit the "enter world" button. Is it possible that some versions of titanium are different from install? I did the version checker, and it spat back the same thing as many other people had for a version--all of which worked for them, but not for me. I have no viruses on this computer; I'm actually checking it once again right now.

Anyways, this is one gargantuan mystery for me. Please help!

attempt37 · #5 05-02-2006, 01:10 PM

I dunno what could be the problem then. You should be able to log into 0.7.0 servers without a problem with a fresh titanium install.

InsaneWallaby · #6 05-04-2006, 02:53 AM

This is quite frustrating. I'm going to try installing it on my laptop tonight. I went through the setup for the client and all, and despite following the steps, have no had no luck on this computer. Normal everquest works fine when patching. There wasn't anything that I missed, such as a set of client files or a patcher or something that adds custom EQEmu content (ONLY, of course), was there? If there was, well then, I feel pretty dumb right now. Anyways, let's see if EQEmu just particularily HATES this computer, and maybe I can get somewhere from there...if not, then I've got a few more ideas up my sleeve still...I'm going to get my 20 bucks worth, dangit! =P