Titanium vs. RoF?

[NickW]

Originally Posted by Uleat

Regardless of client, if you play on a peqdb-based server, you will only receive playable content up to Gates of Discord.

Custom servers may provide more..or some even restrict their expansion content. You should check a given server's website to see if there's a restriction
on the clients that they allow to connect to their server. Otherwise, any of the supported client should suffice.

The biggest discernment between clients, at the moment, is features.

Thanx for the response. Do you happen to know the answer to any of my other questions? Like which guide to use?

[moofta]

1. Currently the most stable and perhaps most widely available client is the Underfoot one (*coughs*). I would suggest using this if you can, it works better in every way than Titanium, and RoF is still not 100% supported.

2. If you want to run your own server on your PC and log into that rather than play on a public EQEmu server, you do not need an EQEmu login account. I would suggest getting one though, and trying a public server first anyway.

3. This is the new wiki and therefore most up to date for setting up your own server on Windows:-
http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?Complet...Guide&frm=Main

4. I really would suggest playing on a currently set up server first, partly to know what to expect, and secondly because most servers could do with more players Too many chiefs and not enough Indians!

[demonstar55]

The best supported clients are Titanium then probably Underfoot. Many people prefer UF due to the fact that it uses the newer HP formula and has more features (xtarget, etc) (note: if you find a 'HoT' client its actually just UF with the extra zone files from HoT)

The rest of the clients work well enough to be playable, but not as well as tit or if.

If you're setting up a single player only server and your own login server you don't need to make an account, although unless you do some port forwarding, no friends will be able to play with you (well you need to don't that anyways ...)

You should also try to use the new wiki since the old one has been in read only mode for a while and info can be out of date (although, the new wiki might not have been updated yet either .... Documenting is hard :PW well busy work)

[NickW]

Thanx again for the info. Helps a lot. Kinda confused as to what this step means.

c) Download Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop

Download Visual Studio Express 2013 For Windows Desktop (note: there is a "Visual Studio Express 2013 For Windows Desktop" do not use it as it won't work) and put it in the C:\EQ\Installs directory. Download the installer by clicking on 'Install Now'. Note this one is only a simple web installer package. It will download more when you run it.
You can also use full versions of Visual Studio (Professional, Premium, Ultimate), and Visual Studio 2012 Express also.


First it says to download Visual Studio Express 2013 For Windows Desktop. Then it immediately says "note: there is a "Visual Studio Express 2013 For Windows Desktop" do not use it as it won't work"...

So what gives? Typo?

[moofta]

fixed the typo. You should use "Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop". If you have the 2012 or even the 2010 version, they should work too.

[NickW]

Originally Posted by moofta

fixed the typo. You should use "Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop". If you have the 2012 or even the 2010 version, they should work too.

Gotcha. I tried downloading and installing that one. But, it apparently only works with windows 7 & 8. The only version for 2012 I see is "Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone". There are seven different options for 2010. I have no idea what any of them mean. Any idea which of these I should use for Windows Vista?

Thanx.

[demonstar55]

I know VS 2010 (the lowest supported VS version for us) is the last one that works for XP, not sure for Vista, 2012 might work? Either way, you will want the desktop version not the phone .. I assume ..