Need help launching EQ

[Burdoc101]

Hail,

It has been quite some time since I last played on VoG; too long! Hoping to get back into the game, but I am stuck at the "Launch Titanium.bat" step. Every-time I attempt to load the game it pops up a command.exe window and gives the error that:

"Windows cannot find 'eqgame'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."

I downloaded the EQ file from VoG and currently have the files extracted in a folder on my C: drive. This also includes the updated spell file.

I vaguely remember messing with a shortcut for the "Launch Titanium.bat," but can't recall if that was for another EMU server or this one in order to get the bat file to work. Is there something I need to change with the bat file or is my memory serving me correctly with the shortcut idea?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

Burdoc

[jbhuss]

Because of when EQ began, you have to make sure that there are no spaces in the file path directory or it will not work. Try making sure to remove any spaces in the file path. Example below:

C:\EQ\VOG File\eqgame
Will not work. Change to:
C:\EQ\VOGFile\eqgame
Removing spaces may fix.

Cheers,

Manaen

[Burdoc101]

Hey Manaen,

Hey just to be clear and exact. Am I changing the "Launch Titanium.bat" file? Or is it a different file like the "eqgame.exe"?

In the "Launch Titanium.bat" file it shows this currently:

"start /affinity 1 eqgame patchme"

Also is this "affinity" the thing that dictates how many processors are used? If so, how can I change it from 1 to 8 or 12?

[Burdoc101]

Upon re-reading your message a bit more carefully, I understand to change any folder names (leading to VOG) to have no spaces.

I changed the files to have no spaces, but I am still receiving the same error.

A bit more detail from the command prompt, it is going to the wrong area of my computer where my file is located.

"C:\Windows\system32>start /affinity 1 eqgame patchme"

My PC -> OS (C:) -> Emulators -> EverquestEmu -> RoF2 - > eqgame.exe

Or should the above be able to locate it just fine?

(Not super savvy with computer tech)

[Control]

Upon re-reading your message a bit more carefully, I understand to change any folder names (leading to VOG) to have no spaces.

I changed the files to have no spaces, but I am still receiving the same error.

A bit more detail from the command prompt, it is going to the wrong area of my computer where my file is located.

"C:\Windows\system32>start /affinity 1 eqgame patchme"

My PC -> OS (C:) -> Emulators -> EverquestEmu -> RoF2 - > eqgame.exe

Or should the above be able to locate it just fine?

(Not super savvy with computer tech)

Here's what I use,
EQ is in C:\Everquest
the .bat file is also in C:\Everquest
the .bat file contains this line:

Code: Select all

start /affinity 1 eqgame patchme

(No directory path is needed since they're in the same folder)
Then I create a shortcut to the .bat file on my desktop that I use to launch it.
Using

Code: Select all

/affinity 1

is supposed to tell eqgame to only use processor 1. I use different .bat files to start each instance of eqgame on a separate processor. However, it doesn't seem to always work on my Win10 machine, but I'm pretty sure it did on Win7 /shrug. Just to be safe, I go into the task manager and set the affinity of each process manually.
The reason is that EQ was never really made for multi-core machines, and it doesn't really play nice with them. You might be able to get away not worrying about affinity at all, but I find that I get frequent crashes if I don't do this.

[Burdoc101]

Hmm, I appreciate the help y'all. Still not sure where I need to put the file on my computer as it seems very similar to what you have laid out @Control. I'm going to move the file around and see if there is just somewhere that it "sticks."

I wonder if my firewall or my anti-virus (windows defender) is messing with the program, but nothing is popping up stating otherwise. Has this been an issue for yall before dealing with software?

Should have just left the dang software alone when I stopped playing a few months ago, was working just fine where I had it!

[Burdoc101]

I think I'm boned. Out of ideas.

[Burdoc101]

Yeah so I ended up doing what the command prompt was saying from the launcher bat file. I copied and pasted the eqgame.exe into my C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder and it went onto the next steps where it gave me this error:

"the code execution cannot proceed because mss32.dll was not found. reinstalling the program may fix this problem."

I believe if I copied and paste all the code from the VoG file into my system32 folder I would be able to play. But that would be way too messy and I do not want to screw up the system32. I am not sure why the launcher bat is trying to connect this way to Everquest. Especially when I was able to play VoG in February this year just fine without any of these hiccups.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can direct the launcher bat down a specific file path?

Also, any thoughts onto why the launcher bat would do this?

[Burdoc101]

SOLVED!

Just logged back in today! Woo woo!

These are the steps I took to circumvent my "launch titanium.bat" file issue:

1: Right+click eqgame.exe and create a shortcut
2: Right+click shortcut and changed properties to:

"C:\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme

I am not sure if the quotes are necessary, because the shortcut got rid of them

And that's it! I am not sure if this effects the VoG client in anyway, but right now I'm logged in again. Thanks for the help y'all!

[Control]

Glad you got it working!