eqgame.exe has encountered an error

[rulbak]

I was having the same problem after wipeing and going back to xp from vista.
are any of you having the problem use a VIA chipset motherboard? after i updated my 4n1 drivers, the game started working again!

here is the link to d/l http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

[techguy84]

Never though of hosting, but I guess that affects the LS too, DOH :>

[Bjerlk]

I actually havent had this trouble until yesterday...
And the only thing I know I did before that is to install the april edition of directx...

And now after that I get alot of SSSE errors over and over again.. And apparently I cant remove the upgrade of DirectX...

maybe this will shed some light into the troubles? Might it be sound issues on the server select or... hmm...

Need to investigate further...

[tyranoth]

i think the link the post about SSSE errors sounds pretty much what the problem could be as that is exactly when my computer hangs and then after a second attempt freezes totally!

There are so many people getting problems with this could it be something server side? it confuses me that i can connect off of my computer that is hard lined to the web and yet i cannot connect off of my wireless computer both of wich are using the same internet connection*rather boggled*

*EDIT* my hard lined computer has now got the exact same problem!!

any ideas anyone?

[cavedude]

This is a very long standing problem, and actually it can be caused by a variety of issues. Some of them have easy fixes like an eqclient.ini change, or forcing the survey, but some are still unknown and have no immediate fix. I have a machine that has been doing this for several months, and at this point I have nailed it down to a hardware incompatibility or a system software issue in my case. The trick is, to keep trying. Eventually (one time I counted near 100 tries) I got in.

My 4 other machines haven't ever had this problem. 3 of them are running EQ using Cedega on Linux, and the last is XP, ironically with nearly identical hardware as the machine that does have the issue.

Consequently, this problem doesn't seem to effect the 0.6.2 client at all. (just to cover my own ass, don't ask about it, you can't have it)

[Dralanna]

With all due respect cavedude, I can't see how it could be a hardware compatibility issue if it sometimes works. I can have two clients running on my machine and one will login and the other will continually get the error. I certainly don't claim to have the understanding of the emu that you do... so if you're positive thats the problem then I defer to you.... but it just doesn't make sense to me. Furthermore, in my tests I never have the issue when using a minilogin, only when using the normal login server which, IMO, points to the login server as the source of the problem.

[chriztoffer]

Bah am going crazy, in my 40 tries no to get pass the serverselect, worked great last night and now today I cant get in, and I havent changed a shit, and its the same as everyone else is talking about the eqgame.exe error.

Have to be the server from all others posts, cant be here at home

[okiebronco]

i recently started having this issue as well. in my case, i can get to the log in server just fine unless i have my server up and running. not sure what caused this but im open to ideas. this issue started yesterday 5/26/07. im running the current eqemu and sql. i just find it odd that i cant log in on the same pc that the server is running on any more. now if i get on the wifes circa 1990 computer... itll let me get to the log in server no problem and even log into the server