login problems "a timeout occured"

jacasin · #1 05-22-2010, 04:04 AM

ok ive been fighting with this game for 2 days now trying to get it to work. ive played fine for like 2 weeks straight then 2 days ago, i accidently patched. so i did a fresh install. followed the install guide to the letter, changed the eqhost. but no matter what account i use or how many times i reinstall all i get at login is "a timeout occured". any help for this??

**trevius** · #2 05-22-2010, 05:51 AM

If you patch, make sure you uninstall, then fully delete your Everquest folder completely, then re-install. If you don't delete the folder, some files will stay there and will mess you up again when you re-install.

jacasin · #3 05-22-2010, 06:15 AM

ok this time i deleted not just everquest but the sony folder as well. did a fresh install. tried my login and still get the timout occured error. i noticed something else as well. i cant seem to find my eqclient.ini file as well. only thing i can find is a file called eqlsClient. is this right? i even tried a new account with a different email address and still no luck. any further help is appreciated.

**trevius** · #4 05-22-2010, 07:07 AM

Are you following this guide?:

http://www.eqemulator.org/wiki/wikka...akka=PlayGuide

Also, what client are you using (Titanium, SoF, SoD, Live)? And what do you have in your eqhost.txt file. Also, if you open the eqhost.txt file after saving and closing it, does it still show what you set in it?

jacasin · #5 05-22-2010, 07:21 AM

yes im using that guide you linked down to the letter. this is whats currently in my eqhost.txt file [LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5998 and it is saving correctly.

jacasin · #6 05-22-2010, 07:22 AM

using a fresh install of Titanium.

dumpy33 · #7 05-26-2010, 12:47 PM

I'm getting the exact same problem... I've been playing EQ on Project 1999 for over a week now, and all of a sudden, after I log in it says ''a timeout error occured'' during this time, I cannot see any servers. This problem happened randomly, I did not patch and I did not change any of the files in my folder. It just randomly started encountering this error.

Estolcles · #8 05-30-2010, 09:17 PM

Actually, I'm suffering it now, and I've not had this issue EVER. Only thing I've done is installed the new (as of 5/30) spells file (for the Project1999 server). >_>

**trevius** · #9 05-30-2010, 09:34 PM

As far as I know, spell files can only effect you from being able to get a character in game from character select, not anything to do with logging into the Login Server. Though, I think it would be possible to add something to block people from being able to connect to a particular server in the server list if a certain spell file wasn't used, but EQEmu doesn't support a feature like that yet.

As for issues with the official EQEmu LS, it is hard to say. It could be any number of things. Since Rogean is the only one with access to it currently, he may be the best one to help in support of it. The only client related issues that might cause something like that as far as I know is if you have patched to Live at all, or if you have ports blocked on your network or ISP.

perceptor · #10 06-12-2010, 03:42 PM

I resolved this problem by adjusting my firewall settings.