Problem logging in

[Theeper]

If you use emu.bat to start the server, it will open two windows in addition to your Minilogin window. One is the command window and the other is world.exe.

In the command window, it will tell you to let world load completely with the "Press Enter When Done" message. If you watch the world.exe window, you'll see it loading a bunch of stuff, then finally connecting to Minilogin.

Once it's done loading and connected, you can hit enter in the command window and eqlaunch will run and boot your zones.

[FlitTastic]

So you are giving me a solution that sounds like the problem im trying to explain? thats helpful. lol. Like I said, 2 windows do come up, but one closes so fast that I barely see that its there. If I blinked I wouldnt see it at all. I also let the window that says "servers 0, clients 0" open for over 4 hours earlier and still nothing had happened within that time. At this point im just going to try and start over from the beginning again, but I dont know how to uninstall the first server (I dont want to have a bunch of broken servers cluttering up my hard drive. lol). Ill try to not ask anymore questions here, since I cant get any useful help, which is probably my fault since I dont even know how to convey the problem correctly (judging by the whole 3 answers i have gotten anyway. lol). Anyway, im off to try to muddle through this as best I can. Wish me luck : )

[FlitTastic]

Still doing the same thing after 3 try's. 2 windows are supposed to pop up, one says to wait for world to load, other one opens and closes so fast that you would miss it if you blinked. Has done this on all my attempts. So I dont know what to do anymore. Cant find anything in the forums that covers this or on the wiki. Can anyone please help or at least point me in the right direction?? Thank you.

[Theeper]

What version do you have, and what are you clicking on to start the server ?

BTW, there is no uninstallation of the server, just delete world.exe, zone.exe and EmShareMem.dll and replace them with the newer versions. Of course the database is a different issue.

[FlitTastic]

Which version of what?

im clicking the start.bat file that techguys guide had me set up. the one that starts with @echo something something something etc.

[Theeper]

What version of eqemulator server are you using ?

Do you not have emu.bat ?

[Angelox]

I hate to say anything cause it always comes back and bites me right in the ass
But I'll say it anyways; You need to aquire a little understanding on what you are doing; What does MySql mean? Perl? what is a batch file?
When I started I knew a bit of Perl but nothing of MySql or any other SQL for that matter, other than it was a database.
These things are very simple to learn (hell, I learned it!), and I suggest anyone starting in EqEmu, become familiarized with it all first.
You can break down EqEmu into three areas:
the source (executables, or emulator), MySql (EqEmu will NOT work without it), and Perl (for all the quests, what npc's say, etc.)
The "start.bat" file is just a DOS command-line script for running all the emulator executables.