Cannot get the game to start. Please help.

[Fallout2Forever]

I have a feeling that I did something wrong. Please tell me what it is that I need to do.

So it's like this.

First of all, I have had a LS account for years, I just haven't touched it in about 2 years. I assume that it's still active.

Anyways, I installed Titanum, and immediately afterward I went straight into the Everquest folder, found the EQHost.TXT file, and copied the information the Play guide says to do, and pasted it into the text document:

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5998

And I right clicked on the EQGame file, created a shortcut, put it on the desktop, and found the target section, and added the following, with a space before the word:

patchme

With that, I double clicked EQgame, and got the following error:

Could not establish a connection.
Please check your network connection
or contact(a sony email address.)

I'm lost at this point. What did I do wrong?

Thank you for your time.

edit: Oh, and btw, if it matters, I'm on windows xp.

[Noport]

click http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/pro...do=loginserver or click on user cp then click on login server at the bottom left hand conner. create a new account if you have too.

[Fallout2Forever]

Originally Posted by Noport

click http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/pro...do=loginserver or click on user cp then click on login server at the bottom left hand conner. create a new account if you have too.

I didn't expect a reply this late at night.

Anyways, I don't see how that would literally prevent the game from loading up when I click on EQGame, and stop this weird error message as a result of clicking on EQGame, but anyways, I do have a Login Server account:

Account 1: *the user name* (the account number that I'm not sure if it's safe or not to give out.)

Edit: BTW, please, let me stress this. I at very least am pretty sure that I did everything the site suggested, except for one thing I somehow missed by accident. The problem, and this is the really important part that truly needs to be grasped is this.

When I click on the shortcut to the EQGame, after I put patchme at the end of it like the play guide told me to, NOTHING loads up, other than the very small window with the EXACT same message that I already posted. In other words, no login screen, no part of Everquest at all, or anything like it, just a message saying there's a connection error, and to contact Sony about it.

Oh, and btw, my connection is fine.

So if you can think of what I did wrong, please help me out.

[Fallout2Forever]

Ok, I re-installed the game, and all is well now. Yay!

[jeffd]

i'm having the same issue as OP, though re-installing hasn't fixed it. i've done everything in the setup guide correctly.

i'm running win7x64. i tried xp/98/95 compatibility mode, but no luck there.

any ideas?

[jeffd]

here's the dump log. as far as i know, the only thing that should cause this should be an incorrect entry in the hosts file, but mine is correct.

[22:35:25] Log Session Open
[22:35:25] EverQuest Patcher version 1.0.42
[22:35:25] System Date is: 02/22/2012 10:35:25pm
[22:35:25] Command Line: "C:\Games\EverQuest\EverQuest.exe" patchme
[22:35:25] ---------------------------------------
[22:35:25] Client IP is 192.168.1.102
[22:35:25] == Language Scan. =============
[22:35:25] == System Language: English. ==
[22:35:25] == Language initialized. ======
[22:35:25] ---------------------------------------
[22:35:25] Setting initial cwd to C:\Games\EverQuest
[22:35:25] Self-Patch Check. Begin initialization.
[22:35:25] Patcher: Checking Old Handles...
[22:35:25] Patcher: Creating Thread...
[22:35:25] Patcher: Done with Thread Creation Routine...
[22:35:25] Patcher: Thread Start
[22:35:25] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 0 Begin...
[22:35:25] Patcher: Initializing Get
[22:35:25] Patcher: Get Initialized
[22:35:25] Patcher: InternetOpen()...
[22:35:25] Patcher: InternetCrackURL()...
[22:35:25] Patcher: InternetConnect()...
[22:35:25] Patcher: HttpOpenRequest()...
[22:35:25] Patcher: HttpSendRequest()...
[22:35:26] Connect Success
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetReadFile()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetReadFile() Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Decompressing to final memory.
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpDownload Completed.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download of XML Operation Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Verifying Download...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Checking Memory, size of buffer is 345
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Verification Start...
[22:35:26] Patcher: m_xmlInfo is a valid pointer
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download failed. Trying file download...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Root element is html
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 0 Unsuccessful.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 1 Begin...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Initializing Get
[22:35:26] Patcher: Get Initialized
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetOpen()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Http get error 21: InternetOpen() failed: 87

[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download of XML Operation Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 1 Unsuccessful.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 2 Begin...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Initializing Get
[22:35:26] Patcher: Get Initialized
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetOpen()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetCrackURL()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetConnect()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpOpenRequest()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpSendRequest()...
[22:35:26] Connect Success
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetReadFile()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetReadFile() Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Decompressing to final memory.
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpDownload Completed.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download of XML Operation Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Verifying Download...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Checking Memory, size of buffer is 345
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Verification Start...
[22:35:26] Patcher: m_xmlInfo is a valid pointer
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download failed. Trying file download...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Root element is html
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 2 Unsuccessful.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 3 Begin...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Initializing Get
[22:35:26] Patcher: Get Initialized
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetOpen()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetCrackURL()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetConnect()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpOpenRequest()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpSendRequest()...
[22:35:26] Connect Success
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetReadFile()...
[22:35:26] Patcher: InternetReadFile() Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Decompressing to final memory.
[22:35:26] Patcher: HttpDownload Completed.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download of XML Operation Complete.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Verifying Download...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Checking Memory, size of buffer is 345
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Verification Start...
[22:35:26] Patcher: m_xmlInfo is a valid pointer
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download failed. Trying file download...
[22:35:26] Patcher: Root element is html
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Internet Type 3 Unsuccessful.
[22:35:26] Patcher: Memory Download Operation Failed.
[22:35:33] Patcher: Thread Finish
[22:35:33] Made it to the deletion state
[22:35:33] Log Session Closed

[lerxst2112]

The file you want to create the shortcut to and add patchme to the command line is eqgame.exe, not everquest.exe.

[jeffd]

ugh, dumb mistake. good catch - thanks much.