EverQuest and Vista

[David W. Westphalen]

Hi All,

Does anyone know any way to get Ever Quest to run under Vista? I have set
the compatibility to XPSP2 but still no go. The game loads the launch pad
and download its updates but when you click play the screen flashes a few
times, goes black and then just goes to the desktop. Tech support at Sony
Online Entertainment don't have a clue either. HELP!!!


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[jennafarmer]

I play EQ 2 and to get it to play properly on Vista, you can right click the
shortcut and choose run as administrator. You can also go into the
properties for the shortcut and tell it to always run as administrator. I
hope that helps.

 

[Guest]

Actually you pretty much HAVE to run eq1 as administrator. I think it has to
do with the way eq1 tries to take total control of the hardware, and since
vista wont let it, it errors out.

 

[Blue Dragon 28150]

Tried that. I have it set to run as admin and in XP mode, still goes back to
desktop right after patch screen

 

[Blue Dragon 28150]

Anyone have an answer to this problem?

 

[Guest]

did you install the dxwebsetup for directx 9? EQ requires some optional
modules that are not in the regular build. Ran the dxwebsetup that is
available over at www.microsoft.com/directx - selected the link to get the
latest updates and it just installs the optional modules. Other then that it
has been running fine - eq,eq2, swg,vanguard,mo, only one I am having major
issues with is planetside

Anyone have an answer to this problem?

 

[Blue Dragon 28150]

Already done that. EQ still runs the patcher and downloads, but when it goes
to play the screen goes black, flashes a few times and then goes right to
the desktop.

I have EQ running on other machines with no problem but the others are
running XP home and XP Pro

did you install the dxwebsetup for directx 9? EQ requires some optional
modules that are not in the regular build. Ran the dxwebsetup that is
available over at www.microsoft.com/directx - selected the link to get the
latest updates and it just installs the optional modules. Other then that
it
has been running fine - eq,eq2, swg,vanguard,mo, only one I am having
major
issues with is planetside

 

[Blue Dragon 28150]

Still not having any luck with this.

System:

Toshiba Satellite A135 Laptop, Vista Home Pre, Centrino Duo 1.73Ghz, 1gb ram

H E L P !

 

[Guest]

Delete your "dbg.txt" file from your Everquest directory, re-run the game so
it crashes, this will make a new dbg.txt file. Read that carefully and it
will point you to the reason why/where it is crashing.

 

[Guest]

did anyone come up with a fix for this problem?

 

[Guest]

The only way my friend was able to get it to work was to set EQ to work on a
single processor (since his was a dual core). It's suppose to work dual core
but would not for him for some reason, he would have to load EQ, then go to
the task manager and set the eqgame.exe to a single processor (usually proc
0). That's the only thing I know of that worked for him.

 

[Revolt]

did anyone come up with a fix for this problem?

Did you install DX9 into Vista yet? There is one file missing from the
version of DX9 in Vista so if you run the DX9 installer it will put the
missing file back. Most games don't need that file so run fine but some do.
Maybe that is your issue. WTF was Microsoft thinking leaving out a DX9 file?
Dumbasses. BTW, August update to DX9 was just released.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f3-0949-487b-9247-8fee451bf952&displayLang=en

 

[Andy [Ex-MSFT]]

Did you install DX9 into Vista yet? There is one file missing from the
version of DX9 in Vista so if you run the DX9 installer it will put the
missing file back. Most games don't need that file so run fine but some
do. Maybe that is your issue. WTF was Microsoft thinking leaving out a DX9
file? Dumbasses. BTW, August update to DX9 was just released.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f3-0949-487b-9247-8fee451bf952&displayLang=en

I think they were hoping more devs would have DX10 games out? Haha, no, just
kidding.

Actually DirectX isn't installed by default on XP. I think the problem is
that these games aren't correctly verifying that the DirectX they need is
properly installed. They just see, DirectX 10 and think, "OK, were good."

In the past DirectX always contained all previous versions, like if you had
DX5 you automatically also got DX1, 2, and 3. 10 came out and they basically
seperated 10 from the rest of the DirectX because 10 is Vista only I'd
guess, so they include 10 with Vista, but nothing before.

It's probably just a way to keep people from trying to reverse engineer DX10
to run in Windows XP. So not really Microsoft's fault, Basically Microsoft
says you should start the DirectX installer for your game during install,
the installer can more accurately figure out if you have all the files in
place.

Now that I've answered your question I just wanted to tell Revolt that I
logged into EverQuest the other day, and my account was turned off (supposed
to be a lifetime free account, apparently someone lost a memo and turned off
my account), so I couldn't get online, but I was able to patch and start the
game with no issues.

I used Vista Ult/32, UAC is off, installed from Platinum CDs without any
tweaking.

 

[James Matthews]

try compaibilty mode!