Windows Server Repack (EQEmu Akka's PEQ Repack)

[EQBard76]

I strongly encourage anyone who is considering downloading this repack to read every single comment on every single page of this thread. I wish I had.

To its credit, the repack DOES work. It promotes an easy to install solution, and is certainly easier to trying to set up an eqemu server manually.

That said, I strongly advise you to pay close attention to the author's condescending screenshots of the red arrows pointing to his "disclaimer". If the verbage contained therein doesn't make sense to you (in other words, if you don't know what a "virtual machine" is, or how to set one up), then DO NOT INSTALL THIS REPACK. If you do, then your computer may have the following issues;

1). Total loss of the use of Internet Explorer. Short of reinstalling windows, IE may (and probably will) completely cease to function on your computer if you install this repack. (*Before all the smart-alecks swoop in with "you should be using chrome anyway yulk yulk", that's totally not the point. Other than the author's vague "disclaimer", there is no indication in the body of the OP that this repack can (and does) cause a major piece of industry-standard software to stop working, and that should be explicitly stated in the description of the repack, not dismissed within a broad disclaimer.

2). This repack will not uninstall. Ever. Attempting to do so will result in an error 1306, caused by MariaDB 10.0 (which results in the repack reversing out of the uninstall), followed by multiple pervasive attempts of the repack suite to reinstall. It will do so multiple times (I counted 23) on a restart, re-establishing the attempts immediately after cancelling. Then it will continue to do so intermittently throughout the day, usually when attempting to open any Windows folder, or basically when attempting to perform any action that requires double-clicking in Windows. Again, beyond a condescending screenshot pointing to a vague, downplayed disclaimer, there is no warning that this repack is literally an invasive, annoying and inconvenient computer virus that can not be removed once installed.

At the end of the day, it's totally my own fault for not knowing what I was doing. But ironically, had I known what I was doing, I probably wouldn't have been drawn to an "easy, all-in-one solution" in the first place. As such, I rue having ever seen this thread, and having been tricked into downloading malware that cannot be removed.

[Akkadius]

Really? Condescending? What a joke...

If you can't understand that there is a certain level of risk in using something that is put before you do anything with it I don't know what to tell you.

No one has to use the repack, you can most certainly follow the server setup guide and create everything on your own.

And maybe what you also aren't realizing is that I did this to help people, not make some salty bastard inconvenienced.

It took a good 15-20 hours to get everything "right" about the repack, make sure that it blew up as little as possible. Considering all of the shit I did run into before and all the manual registry cleaning I had to do before this repack I'd say for the things that do go wry (Internet Explorer) is not a big deal at all. Not to mention having tested it on every single operating system myself after the fact before releasing it to everyone.

And when I've uninstalled the repack, I've had no issues either so others are hitting a condition that I'm not aware of, though looks like Ghanja did some troubleshooting after my post that you can follow.

Despite the salties that only seem to post when there's a problem, this repack has definitely held its weight in value in the community.