Having an odd problem..

[Obscenitor]

Hello,

I browsed through the forums for a while but didn't see any posts regarding this sort of problem..

Ok, so I put my EQ titanium / SoD patcher on my iPod and I am trying to play on a media lab computer at my uni (32'' monitors FTW) but I am running into a problem - after I launch with the SoD patcher and put my account name / pw in to log in... it just exits out of the program.. nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Obscenitor]

Oh, and I am using the SoD Patcher version 1.71

 

[crunchy]

well, chances are your session on the pc doesn't give you administrative rights, so it's not letting the client change video settings.

Also, the driver is probably not matching. When you run eq install, it configures your game to your machine and installs some drivers. You're not supposed to just copy the eq folder over to a new box and run that straight up.

Some of the drivers it needs can be installed manually (directx 9c for example) but not all.

What you might be able to do is run the install cd on the media lab pc and have it install to the ipod. No guarantees it will work. You'll probably need administrator access level to the machine though.

 

[stota0]

well, chances are your session on the pc doesn't give you administrative rights, so it's not letting the client change video settings.

Also, the driver is probably not matching. When you run eq install, it configures your game to your machine and installs some drivers. You're not supposed to just copy the eq folder over to a new box and run that straight up.

Some of the drivers it needs can be installed manually (directx 9c for example) but not all.

What you might be able to do is run the install cd on the media lab pc and have it install to the ipod. No guarantees it will work. You'll probably need administrator access level to the machine though.

i don't believe the driver issue is a problem, i have an eq install that i installed on an xp machine initially and it runs flawlessly on xp, vista, mac, linux, and vista 64 without any extra installs of anything. eq has nothing it installs anywhere but the eq folder. which is why when people install this game on a linux box all they do is drag and drop the folder from a windows install...

this is probably a permissions problem, but then again a media lab normally has full permissions because of what they are used for. i have a few questions for you before determining that is the case. is the ipod mac or windows formatted(probably windows). do they have DX7, 8, or 9 installed. does the computer have permissions to write to external usb ports?

have you tried eqgame.exe patchme instead to run it? have you tried EQW or bind affinity to see what that does?

 

[crunchy]

i don't believe the driver issue is a problem, i have an eq install that i installed on an xp machine initially and it runs flawlessly on xp, vista, mac, linux, and vista 64 without any extra installs of anything. eq has nothing it installs anywhere but the eq folder. which is why when people install this game on a linux box all they do is drag and drop the folder from a windows install...

It's not a driver issue if the machine already has those drivers installed or can emulate them. Linux and mac, I'm guessing can emulate them. Vista, probably has later versions of all such.

I'm only guessing here as I don't claim to be an expert on the client code. You might be entirely correct. Maybe it's not necessary at all to run the install program to get all the drivers and configurations in for any individual machine.

this is probably a permissions problem, but then again a media lab normally has full permissions because of what they are used for. i have a few questions for you before determining that is the case. is the ipod mac or windows formatted(probably windows). do they have DX7, 8, or 9 installed. does the computer have permissions to write to external usb ports?

Do they? I honestly wouldn't know. It used to be the case, in my own experience, that semi-public machines weren't set up for full access. Unless the machines have no internal hard drives at all, it's a weird risk to take. Is the operating system loaded from the network then?

I'd suggest to the OP to check and see if he does have admin access to the box.

Regardless, one way to tell if it will work at all is to run the install, setting it to install to the ipod. If it installs successfully, you're in.

 

[lynnettell]

I've never tested it, but every time I've installed from my DVD backup, I've always just run the SoD install patcher, NOT just did a link to the patcher on the DVD.

 

[crunchy]

I've never tested it, but every time I've installed from my DVD backup, I've always just run the SoD install patcher, NOT just did a link to the patcher on the DVD.

Is the backup a full backup of the ********* folder from a full install or the installation disk instead?