Launcher Cant find eqgame patchme

[Balitorix]

So when i try to run the game with the Launch Titanium.bat i keep getting cant find eqgame file. but its there. ive also added the patchme to the file anme and it still doesnt seem to find it. does anyone have a fix for this issue?

[Kavious]

Did you move the Launch Titanium.bat file out of the EverQuest directory?

[paulgiamatti]

Move your EQ directory out of Program Files.

Explanation of why this is happening: a .bat file is what's known as a command-line script, meaning it first launches an instance of Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and then executes the script from that interface. This happens very quickly, which is why sometimes when you run a .bat file you will see a black terminal window briefly flash on the screen - within that short fraction of a second the command-line interface (CLI) is being launched, executing the batch script, and then closing out. Normally when you run a batch script such as Launch Titanium.bat, it will be executed from the directory in which it's run - for instance, Launch Titanium.bat will tell the CLI to run eqgame.exe in whichever directory Launch Titanium.bat happens to be in.

However, when a batch script is run from within a directory that requires elevated access privileges, such as Program Files, without first being granted those privileges, the Command Prompt instance won't be able to access that directory and will default to its own directory, which happens to be the Windows\System32 directory. So then it runs the contents of Launch Titanium.bat from that directory, and as we know Launch Titanium.bat is essentially just a script with instructions to run eqgame.exe from whichever directory the CLI is in, and therefore it attempts to find eqgame.exe in your Windows\System32 directory to no avail.

So another way to get around this is by running Launch Titanium.bat with administrative privileges, but this is only one of the many problems that can arise by launching EverQuest from within your Program Files directory.