EQ will not launch

[greatdane]

Ok, let's see if I've missed something.

Problem: trying to start the game gives me the (0xc0000096) error.

Notes:

- Not caused by EQEmuLauncher. It did that before I installed the launcher, and still does after.

- The launcher seems to have its own problems anyway as it wants to patch 28 files every time I try to log on.

- Error occurs whether I run the launcher or the eqgame.exe -patchme shortcut.

Tried:

- Deleting wsock32, dsetup.dll, eqgame.dll. Didn't fix it.

- Tried copying over a fresh install of the game that I have on an external drive and frequently use. I've done this about half a dozen times, simply copy-pasting the EverQuest directory onto my desktop. You don't need to actually install the game. A new, freshly patched (to V14) copy gets the error as well.

- That screen resolution thing made no difference.

- The new dsetup.dll provided by Rogean made no difference.

- Updating .NET framework made no difference, and I'm pretty sure I had 3.5 in the first place.


Edit: dsetup.dll appears to be the problem. If I delete it and try to run eqgame.exe (not the patchme shortcut), it says it won't run because dsetup.dll is missing. If I put dsetup.dll back into the directory, I get the (0xc0000096) error when trying to run the game whether from eqgame.exe, the shortcut, or EQEmuLauncher.