Problems need answers. First the problems...

[Moac]

Ok, so I tried this a few years back and failed horribly. I most likely didn't give it much of a chance but I am back and looking to try this again. Ever since then I always wished I had stuck with it and worked out all the kinks to get it to work.

Well, over the last three days I have been reviewing the forums and wiki's trying to troubleshoot through the player setup and seem to be having difficulties. Let me give you the run down in hopes of narrowing down the realm of possible issues.

Ok, I went out last week and purchased the Titanium Version and installed it. I never patched it so it is a fresh install. I created an Login account with EQEMU site. I then created a shortcut using the eqgame.exe file and added patchme at the end of the target. As seen below.

"C:\Program Files\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme

I then moved onto the eqhost.txt file. I changed that so that it matches the guide.

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5998

I then attempted to start the game using the eqgame shortcut that I created and received a graphics card verification window. It stated that I was using a GE FORCE 8800 GTS card and needed to install 81.85 drivers. It gave me two options either to continue or launch the NVIDIA website. I choose continue as those drivers are very outdated. (This may be my snag) Do I need to use the drivers stated from 2004 to run EQ?? I then received an error stating that windows has experienced a problem and needs to close. I have seen other posts on these forums stating the same problem and I have tried all the suggestions associated with them. I went into the XP application log to see what sort of error the eqgame.exe was halting on and gave me that error with all the zeros that I saw in another post. I saw that there were problems running EQ on dual core machines. I noticed that all the Dual core problems were associated with AMD chips and I am using an Intel Core Duo E6600. Are Intel chips not causing the same problem?? Regardless, I tried changing the affinity to one core but it told me that the access was denied. I tried changing the security options by right clicking the shortcut and hitting the "run as" option. I was going to set it using the administrator account but this was the account I was already using. I don't know where I went wrong.

Wow, that turned out to be a rather large post. I guess I just wanted to make sure you all knew I tried to do my homework first. I hope someone will be willing to read all of this and be willing to offer some assistancne.