Trying to figure out 1017 problem

[Merth]

By non-optimal, I mean a piece of communication between the server and you is not happening fast enough. This could be due to your connection and it could be due to your system specs.

This is really just a wild guess, though. I have no way of knowing for sure.

[Sheeker]

Ok.... I was playing all yesterday just fine. I come back to get a little eq time in today and i get 1017! I play on the 0.5.0-DR3 servers. I have managed to actually connect to a server and get to char select screen. as i was pumping stats into a toon i was making... i get disconnected. so i try to join server again and i start getting those darn 1017 errors again. so i bring up dbg.txt and start looking for my error. many many scroll downs later i found this

[Wed Sep 24 17:43:27 2003]00987:*** ERROR: wait_message(), failed: msg = 0x01117350, sender 0x06f2f900, size = 0, fin = 0, connected = 0

[Wed Sep 24 17:43:27 2003]00988:wait_message is returning: msgptr = 0x00000000

[Wed Sep 24 17:43:27 2003]00989:*** ERROR: WorldAuthenticate. My message arrival was NULL, the net has been shutdown...

[Wed Sep 24 17:43:27 2003]00990:*** ERROR: WorldAuthenticate. world isn't there...

[Wed Sep 24 17:43:27 2003]00991:*** ERROR: ProcessGame could not authenticate to world. Bailing with

I'm no computer wiz or anything so any help would be greatly appreciated. (sorry if there is already a topic covering this as i don't have much time to look it up atm)

[cavedude]

You may want to try to upgrade to 2000 or XP if its possible for you. I have 3 computers on my network that I use for EQEmu, and one of them was running 98. I could never get it to log on no matter what I did, where as the other 2 (running W2K) had no problem. I eventually upgraded to XP and the machine logged right in without a problem. 98's use of TCP/IP just plain sucks in all honesty compared to NT based systems.

compact,512 mb 54.8 gb hd gforce4 nvidia graphic card with apex 15" flat screen moniter

:-P i spent prolly well over 1000$ on my computer got it for 600 and beefed it up

[Jerrysn]

Thanks for your feedback Cavedude - I have a copy of XP, it was a real chore to get everything hunky-dorky again when my wife updated from 98. Therefore, I've been reluctant to install it..

So another question for all -

Has anyone got Win98(SE) and been able to log onto the 5.0 servers? And if so, what kinda connection. Modem - DSL - Cable, ect...


Thanks!

Bound and determined

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[qbert]

Just to tell you all that I too was having that 1017 error. After reading this I was able to correct my prob and log in.

Thanks.