Error 1017 after Server Select

**trevius** · #1 09-03-2006, 05:33 AM

Ok, I have been reading and searching for quite some time now and I feel it is time to make a post. I have a fresh unpatched install of Titanium, which I edited the eqhost.txt and created a shortcut to. I followed the player guide perfectly and I am fairly computer/network savvy. I work as a Network Administrator, so I am not a complete idiot anyway.

Here is my problem:
1. I double-click the shortcut icon that I created
2. EQ runs and gets to the logon screen, and I login just fine
3. I get to the Server select screen and all of the servers show up
4. I click any of the servers and hit play, and then the screen freezes accept for the mouse for about 15 seconds
5. It returns me to the login screen and now has the server I just selected in my quick connect button
6. I login and get to the server select screen, but this time an error message pops up and it is a 1017 error about patching and being up to date

I am showing as having 25 of 25 expansions, and I ran the client version checking program and it said I am compatible. I tried doing a reinstall I tried adding the FullscreenRefreshRate=60 to my eqclient.ini, but none of that helped. I have turned off the windows firewall and have opened ports 5998 to 9000 in both TCP and UDP in my router. I even tried following another post about creating a batch file that clears out the server data in the eqlsPlayerData.ini file. Nothing seems to work.

The weird thing is that I was actually up and running fine 2 nights ago before the server crashed and had the corrupt files. I had only been running for 1 day before that happened. I had the same issue I am having now before I got it working the first time. I didn't change anything, accept the last time it just started working after I updated my video drivers and rebooted. But then I changed nothing and it is back to not working again...

Sorry to make such a long detailed post, but I figure the more info the better. And at least it this issue gets resolved, it may be easier for other people to find this post and fix their problem as well.