I too have the same problem (almost)... I'm reading through all the forums and posts and haven't found anything that fixed it yet so I'm guessing its something wrong on my end.
I have Windows XP professional (firewall disabled)
I have all the windows update patches/files.
500Mhz
15gb HD
Geforce 2 DDR~DVI
and 384MB ram
And yes I patched EQ up to the latest version before trying.
I can play on Sony Servers with this so EQ does run on this pc quite well. I tried both the EQW and the eqgame.exe patchme methods and what happens is I'll log in, select a server, create a character and then click on that character to enter the world and the program will just vanish... no error message, no freeze, nothing.... just gone. I have Everquest and SOL installed only, I wonder if that could be the problem? I'll try installing just EQ and see... but since I saw this post already I thought I would add to it to try to help find the problem.
Hope I helped at least a little
