HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[Torrinn]

Someone work out a way to get the Macintosh version for PowerPC to connect to the EQEmu servers and then get back to me.

[Binsfelthakis]

CRASH ERROR [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I launch p99 and get to character screen this messege pops up with Yes or No:

Everquest has detected your client has crashed, would you like to let them know aabout it etc.

Anyone know why this is happening would love any help! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[phobus]

Does it happen every time?

I get the same error once out of every 20 logins or so. But restarting the client and trying again always works just fine, so I haven't looked into it.

[Binsfelthakis]

Everytime, will try reinstall.

[zschwarzmiller]

If anyone has updates to this please let me know; I am going to test it on my 2011 Macbook Air:

2011 Macbook Air
Mac OS X Lion - Version 10.7.4 / VMware Fusion Windows XP Professional
1.7 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 133 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB

[zschwarzmiller]

I seem to be having two issues:

When I recreate the eqclient.ini file the original file is still in the folder as you can see via this screenshot:

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...20521935_n.jpg

The issue I am having is when I attempt to launch "Project 1999" I am receiving an error message "The program eqgame.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Attached is a screenshot:

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...05875981_n.jpg

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[zschwarzmiller]

I am unable to do this:

Under the Format menu, choose “Make Plain Text.” Save it to your P99 folder (easy way to avoid having to rifle through your system: in Finder, drag one of the files in the P99 folder to TextEdit’s Save As window), and save it as eqclient.ini. Make sure “hide extension” is unchecked.

When I uncheck "hide extension" it automatically adds .txt to it... Is there a way to prevent this?

[phobus]

Originally Posted by zschwarzmiller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am unable to do this:

Under the Format menu, choose “Make Plain Text.” Save it to your P99 folder (easy way to avoid having to rifle through your system: in Finder, drag one of the files in the P99 folder to TextEdit’s Save As window), and save it as eqclient.ini. Make sure “hide extension” is unchecked.

When I uncheck "hide extension" it automatically adds .txt to it... Is there a way to prevent this?

You can just change the ".txt" part of the filename to ".ini". At least, I can. If you can't for some reason, save it as whatever and then just rename it in Finder. Make sure the file extension isn't hidden, though, or that will change what the actual filename is as far as EQ is concerned.

Once you have your eqclient.ini setup properly, the game should load. I think the reason it's crashing for you is that the file doesn't exist.

[zschwarzmiller]

Originally Posted by phobus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can just change the ".txt" part of the filename to ".ini". At least, I can. If you can't for some reason, save it as whatever and then just rename it in Finder. Make sure the file extension isn't hidden, though, or that will change what the actual filename is as far as EQ is concerned.

Once you have your eqclient.ini setup properly, the game should load. I think the reason it's crashing for you is that the file doesn't exist.

Should I delete the original eqclient.ini?

[phobus]

Originally Posted by zschwarzmiller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Should I delete the original eqclient.ini?

Sure, there's really no harm in that. All you should need to be able to run the game for the first time is an eqclient.ini with the barebones settings I listed in my post. Once the game runs for the first time, it'll write out its own version with its full list of settings.

The important thing is that the true filename is "eqclient.ini". If your OS thinks the file should have a .txt extension and is hiding that from you, you might think it's named eqclient.ini when in fact it's really eqclient.ini.txt, and the game won't see it. You can click on the file in Finder and use File -> Get Info to check on this. Look under "Name & Extension".