Volkier
Dalayan Beginner
Well, I'm in a little bit of a dilemma.
Long story short, I can connect to the logon server, get to the server selection screen, but after that, I'm stuck. Whenever I try to connect to the server, I get the usual "checking server, connecting player etc." then the game acts like it's about to launch the 'loading screen' to get to the character select screen but after about 10 or so seconds, instead of the loading screen, I am smacked back to the "the Company" logo (right after the EULA) and the main menu - the one before you even log on.
Now what I have done to try and fix it:
- I have tried re-patching in various ways (manually removing files and editing the patch.txt, re-installing everything, copying over original Game files, etc.) with the SoD patcher
- I have tried manually editing the eqhost.txt (as suggested in another thread on the forum)
** Now the FIRST time I've done this, I actually got to the char select screen. So I did think that was the problem, although the IP addresses seem to be the same with the only thing differing being the format in which it was set out, however Game quit responding after I created the char and tried to enter the game. Any further subsequent attempts - despite trying everything humanly possible with that file - results in the same problem as above. This was also the ONLY time I've managed to get up to char select screen itself.
- I've removed all the custom UI files, and defaulted pretty much any and every single config file I could find.
- Fully disabled the hardware firewall on the router.
- Failing that, I went ahead and set my system up for DMZ host to bypass any other left-over forms of security that the router might have had - which potentially might have blocked some ports / IPs
- Shouted several vulgarities at the top of my lungs at my PC in 5 different languages, and burned 6 sheep corpses as a form of a sacrifice to attempt and appease the divine powers responsible.
What I haven't done:
- I haven't patched Game itself with the live patcher. As mentioned in my intro post, I don't have an active account since I've drowned in the spam of expansions and removal of features by the Company sometime at the start of 2007 (or the end of 2006?)
- I haven't set Game to run on a single core. From what I understand, and in my experience, dual core would cause other problems - plus it did get to char selection once. Oh, and the fact that Game tells me that I don't have access to set affinity for some strange weird reason - I'll get to trying to solve that one once I can actually get into the game - theres a few tricks in the 'dual core' topic which I can try.
- I haven't tried to see if the Game live itself works. Again, no active account.
- Anything which isn't relevant to the problem (obviously).
I'm sure I've missed stuff out, but if anyone has heard of something similar, and knows a fix, please do tell :
Long story short, I can connect to the logon server, get to the server selection screen, but after that, I'm stuck. Whenever I try to connect to the server, I get the usual "checking server, connecting player etc." then the game acts like it's about to launch the 'loading screen' to get to the character select screen but after about 10 or so seconds, instead of the loading screen, I am smacked back to the "the Company" logo (right after the EULA) and the main menu - the one before you even log on.
Now what I have done to try and fix it:
- I have tried re-patching in various ways (manually removing files and editing the patch.txt, re-installing everything, copying over original Game files, etc.) with the SoD patcher
- I have tried manually editing the eqhost.txt (as suggested in another thread on the forum)
** Now the FIRST time I've done this, I actually got to the char select screen. So I did think that was the problem, although the IP addresses seem to be the same with the only thing differing being the format in which it was set out, however Game quit responding after I created the char and tried to enter the game. Any further subsequent attempts - despite trying everything humanly possible with that file - results in the same problem as above. This was also the ONLY time I've managed to get up to char select screen itself.
- I've removed all the custom UI files, and defaulted pretty much any and every single config file I could find.
- Fully disabled the hardware firewall on the router.
- Failing that, I went ahead and set my system up for DMZ host to bypass any other left-over forms of security that the router might have had - which potentially might have blocked some ports / IPs
- Shouted several vulgarities at the top of my lungs at my PC in 5 different languages, and burned 6 sheep corpses as a form of a sacrifice to attempt and appease the divine powers responsible.
What I haven't done:
- I haven't patched Game itself with the live patcher. As mentioned in my intro post, I don't have an active account since I've drowned in the spam of expansions and removal of features by the Company sometime at the start of 2007 (or the end of 2006?)
- I haven't set Game to run on a single core. From what I understand, and in my experience, dual core would cause other problems - plus it did get to char selection once. Oh, and the fact that Game tells me that I don't have access to set affinity for some strange weird reason - I'll get to trying to solve that one once I can actually get into the game - theres a few tricks in the 'dual core' topic which I can try.
- I haven't tried to see if the Game live itself works. Again, no active account.
- Anything which isn't relevant to the problem (obviously).
I'm sure I've missed stuff out, but if anyone has heard of something similar, and knows a fix, please do tell :
