Lucia, is your PC a dual-core or quad-core Athlon processor? I was having error messages from the login server and also this problem once I got rid of the error messages (see my thread in Technical) last night. I managed to resolve it by the following steps:
1) clean install of Titanium
2) followed falken's instructions for a manual patch shown above in this thread by Lyra
3) set the compatibility mode on eqgame.exe EverQuest.exe and the desktop shortcut to Windows 2000 mode, Disabled Desktop Composition, Run As Administrator
4) Edited the eqclient.ini file with the windowed mode information as per Lyra's post (I used slightly different figures of 1024 and 780 but same for both standard and windowed modes).
5) finally, click Start - type msconfig into run window - Boot tab - Advanced options - Set number of processors to 1 - Apply - Exit and Restart
6) laptop now reboots in single-core mode and I was able to run, login and play successfully.
7) only thing to remember is once done playing, do the msconfig thing again, reset to using multiple processors and reboot - otherwise all your more modern, processor intensive programs will run really slowly.
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