Got MS program no help.
 

The MS compatability program looks very useful indeed. It does not have Everquest listed, though. I read up a bit on it and the SP2 installed on XP is supposed to fix the old mouse errors so I cannot use the program. Again, it was a happy thought and looks to be a useful program for many of my other applications and games I play so I at least appreciate being shown the software.
p.s.: the scorch and burn install did nothing for me.
The easiest way for me to play EQ right now is to start it in windowed mode, then change to full-screen after I log in. It's just strange that the one single point that it stalls/crashes is right there at the server select screen and as long as you hold the mouse still and don't move it until AFTER the list of expansions starts to scroll down at the bottom, it's fine. It's just tricky holding it that still in full-screen mode, even if I don't hold it and somthing bumps the computer desk and so much as gives the mouse one byte of input at that screen in that first second or two at the server select screen, it crashes. <*sigh*> Maybe I should try a different kind of mouse connection like USB and see if that changes things?
I thought about changing IRQ's around in the system, just havn't been to MS to find out how to manually configure them in XP...not sure you can.

FIXED, strange, but true
 

Be sure to lough loudly when you read this. I replaced my ps/2 mouse with my other computers wireless bluetooth mouse and things worked just fine, changed back to the ps/2 corded mouse and it works like nothing happened. Then I Plugged the bluetooth back into the machine it was on originally, and it now works fine too! That was it????? This problem will more than likely crop up again, at least I have a temporary fix.
Oh, I almost forgot, my sound card, video card and USB devives all share IRQ9. That probably doesn't help either and since XP is supposed to be able to use more than 15 interrupts I find it odd that it only goes to 15 on my machine and well into the 20's on another. Hmmmm....personal vs. professional maybe?

Okay, I *think* I finally got it fixed. (Mouse-Move Login Crash)
 

I had to change the video resolutions for full screen and windowed mode to match my desktop resolution and color depth (16-bit). Then set the file (EQCLIENT.INI) properties to "READ-ONLY" so it cannot be changed back to anything else. Now I can move my mouse around all I want during login and EQ doesn't crash.

[VideoMode]
Width=1024
Height=768
WidthWindowed=1024
HeightWindowed=768
WindowedWidth=1024
WindowedHeight=768
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=16
FullscreenRefreshRate=60

This has been working flawlessly for a week now so I thought that it was time to update my post. Keep in mind that while the file is locked in Read-Only mode you can still change settings in the game like resolution/color/text/etc. like normal, but you will loose it th next time you run the game. If you want or need to change anything, just undo the read-only attribute, run the game, change what you want, exit the game, *DOUBLE CHECK THE VIDEO SETTINGS* (especially the refresh rate as it tends to get set to zero.) and then set it for read-only again.
I hope this helps others out there.

I cant get mine to work either been messing around with updating drivers and mouses and .ini files but none of it seems to work, quite frustrating, ive uninstalled eq ti twice and nothing.
saaaaaaaaaaaad panda

If you haven't noticed already this eqgame.exe error is one hell of an error. I'm starting to wonder if black magic is involved. Many people have tried to get rid of it but I'm pretty sure only a few have. I'm also pretty sure for some people there's more than one cause for this error.

I posted earlier in this thread and said I'd post back what I found. First, changing the refresh from 0 to 60 in the eqclient.ini file didn't help me. What I post below comes from very many logins to EQEmu since I posted last.

I play EQEmu on two computers at the same time. Of about 12 accounts I often play 7 at a time, 4 windowed clients on the first and 3 windowed clients on the second. Normally the eqgame.exe error comes and goes. When it's 'active' it hits me hard keeping me from getting past the server select screen through many attempts, though using the quick connect button seems to help a little.

I have one account that _never_ has the eqgame.exe error it doesn't matter whether I use computer one or computer two. Another person no stranger to the eqgame.exe error and in another country also has access to this account. They _never_ have the eqgame.exe error logging in on this account.

Recently I spent 2 weeks 100 miles from home. I took my one computer box with me. I never experienced the eqgame.exe error while I was there. For me one or perhaps three days is a long time to go without seeing the error, never 2 weeks. During this time others online would mention how the error was keeping them from logging into PEQ so the error was still occuring, just not for me. The day after I returned home with my computer I began seeing the eqgame.exe error again.

There is also this link to a post on the PEQ forums where I describe the error in detail and another experience with it. http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1861

I'm going to go through the threads here on EQEmu tomorrow and try some of the fixes I haven't tried yet. I'll post again if a fix works for me or if I find anything new.

It is a problem with video drivers. I just tested this extensively today...I had to roll my NVidia drivers back to an older release to get it to work.

Hiyas. Im totally new here and just set up everything acording to the guide with fresh install of titanium. But everytime i started eq i would get the ''eqgame.exe has encountered an error'' message before i got to see any real screens. It was getting the error right at start as screen changes resolution. I have widescreen moniter so my resolution was on 1440x900 . on this resolution i would get the eqgame.exe error . When i bumped it down to 1280 x 1024 it works great
hope this helps some of u with the error

When the DNS was down for Eqemulator.net, and I used the IP address 64.251.21.39 (from PEQ) it worked everytime. As soon as Eqemulator came back online, I had a lot of problems.

I second that.

Sonic

EDIT: Nevermind, switched to the IP again to double check and crash. Argh!

Try this;
Find your HOSTS file - in windows its in windos/system32/drivers/etc add this line;
This will give you a "shortcut" to the server. Only problem is, if they change IP address, you have to know and change too.

Editing a HOSTS file is always a bad idea (this is why god invented DNS), though it might provide a bandaid, it is not a solution. The real problem exists out of our control.

And you are right, if the IP changes, I can see 20 more threads about not finding the login server. ;)

I always keep one (HOST file), you really need it for EqEmu; for some reason the DNS goes down a lot, but the IP always remains steady.
Internet really is based on IP and not "names" - names were created to simplify the ip numbers. But always is faster and more direct whan you use an IP address.

This did the trick for me, thanks for the tip... simple, just the way I like em ;)

it is the EQEmu server not the actual game client it has to do with somthing on the server list your all experiancing what is known as the SSSE ( Server select screen error ) the reason some of you find fixes with your mouse that fix the game is because the loading of all the private servers.

When you move your mouse on the screen while its trying to load it will crash , if you leave your mouse not moving it will either work or make the server select screen show up blank with no servers.

Ive been having this problem for a very long time and untill the GMs of EQEmu figure out what is wrong with the server screen nothing you do will permanently fix it, and what is this minilogin ? your all talking about.

Sorry if i sound negative if you get to the server select though and it all seems well dont move your mouse till you see the expantions list start to move or it will crash.

I persoanly dont think the emu client can support this many servers online at a time so if any GM's read this post i suggest highly of taking the empty servers noone plays in offline to save us from this hell.

Just so you guys know, this thread itself started on August of 06.

so its been going for almost 1 year and still no fix ? gg

latency
 

Anyone else here having this problem using a possibly high latency connection? I am on a wireless broadband connection and it is common for it to have high latency. I have seen some people try to relate this problem with latency so I wanted to throw it out here and see what people said.

Wireless might be where your problem is. Make sure you have a good signal. You can easily drop down to nearly dial-up speeds if you are too far from the wireless point. You also might have a large amount of packet loss on wireless. Try it wired. If you still have the same problem, your ISP sucks.

It's definitely still a problem. It's hard to pin down because sometimes all is well for a week or more of daily multiple logins... then all of a sudden, blammo. A reboot seems to help, but not always. Changing driver versions doesn't seem to help much long term.

I suspect it has something to do with the LS simply freaking out and sending bad data to the client which crashes it on occasion. BUT, since we do not get to peruse the LS code (and for good reason), there's really no way to know.

I've found that this problem only occurs on new login accounts I make. For example, I have 2 accounts that were made years ago that NEVER have this problem whereas a new account encounters this problem daily. Also, if I try to login to one of my older accounts while having this problem on a newer account, I get no error. Hope this helps.

I've been able to bypass the bug usually by fiddling with my resolution settings.. I don't know if that's luck or not.. I also run the game in XP compatability mode (I'm running Vista) and I added "FullscreenRefreshRate=60"
to my client ini file.

Hehe, and the thread roles on despite being almost a year old and having the topic changed a couple times. Nice!!

Actually the thing that seems to work with me.
I cannot use EQEmu's LoginServer for some reason.
I can use Angelox's but not EQEmu's.
Soooo,
Seems I am stuck to one server for now lol.

Old EQ & New Resolutions
 

I can't speak for everyone, but I now know exactly what caused this crash for me.

Widescreen monitors.

Bumping the res down to 1280x1024 fixes it, but it looks like crap. Did EQlive ever have an issue with this and solve it? Perhaps it's time EQemu looks at moving forward to that?

Actually, you are right. I usually copy my old 1280x1024 eqclient.ini from a backup dir to my eqemu client when I reinstall and it fixes things for my 1680x1050 monitor. Once I get running though, I can switch from windowed and use full resolution and it stays good.

Just to let you know that both my accounts work perfectly and when my friend tries to login he has this problem. So i logged in on his PC with my account and it has worked flawlessly. He then tried on my PC and failed every time.

I have a strong feeling there is a problem somewhere on the logon server side as I have encountered 3 other people with the exact same issue. Regardless of eqclient settings.

There are multiple problems haunting us right now... but luckily I believe some of the resolution problems can be resolved. The survey problem, thorn-meet-side...

Is this where the client asks you to answer a survey upon login?

One EQgame.exe crash is. Its due to bad packets from the client and the server regarding a survey that pops up and ask you question like "Is This thing Working" or somethign like that.

The other well known one is due to High Resolution Widescreen Monitors not having there abilities set up in Titanium so you crash out.

So does this mean there's a way to configure the client in game to accept widescreen monitors? I've looked in options, and didn't see anything, but I'm notoriously blind when it comes to obvious things.

Anyone know of a workaround that's not changing desktop resolution every time I want to play?

I have a lappy with a wide screen monitor (1280x800 max) and I just edited all three resolution entries in the eqclient.ini to read 1024x700 and all is well with me.... perhaps that might help ya?

I do not think there is a "widescreen" option exactly. Just a resolution. Your video card should tell EQ what it's modes are, and EQ should be capable of using them. You might have to enter the game in 1024x768 (windowed) mode at first, then change from within. That's what I had to do.

I have tried all the fixes listed above and I am still having this issue...

quadruple checked all the settings in the eqclient.ini
updated DirectX
updated video drivers
played with color depth and resolution settings
not running a widescreen monitor

Whats going on??

You might try contacting Sony Tech support. Just dont mention that you are trying to connect to EQEmu! This sounds like a sony software issue, not an EQEmu issue....

I've narrowed it down to the fact that if there are too many people logged in it crashes. Simple as that...for me anyway.

What worked for me was setting my desktop resolution to 1280x1024. EQ would give the error whenever I tried to start it with my desktop at 1600x1050. Once in game I could then change it to 1600x1050.

Weird.

I had the problem today and corrected it.

I also happen to play Shards of Dalaya and I always run EQ Play nice to on the pc when i'm on it.

I killed this app and now its working fine....
just a thing for someone to try if they fit that bill.

I got mine fixed... sort of...


I got it to load after copying someones eqclient.ini in this thread, for some reason I like like 5-6 lines in my ini and that was it.

It does not like to start up in full screen mode at 1440x900 my desktop res, but it will start up at that res in windowed mode... I'll deal with windowed mode as long as it's working

Dr. Woo

I got it working, somebody posted their eqclient.ini details, I C&P'd sections one at a time.. it didnt work until I pasted the defaults section... I believe it was because it is now forcing the windowed mode, for it to work.

Plz Help
 

Hi there ,,, i was wondering if anyone could assistme. every so often my server works fine ,,, then all of the sudden the next day to a week or later wont work ,,, i try logging in and when i hit enter world on the character select screen i get a zone.exe error i have the newest files i do believe ,,, also only way i can log in is if i go into navicat ,,, and put the characters manually into pok ( poknowledge ) which gets annoying and also when it does load up normally how can i make the tutorial work ? mines of gloomingdeep?


And all this happens when you are not in pok and if you try logging to another zone crashes , if u make a new toon = crashes ,,, so once again have to go to navicat and put them in pok in order to work partiall just that zone ? ? ?


any thoughts any1 ? plz i have had issues for a long time now :-?