patch problems.

[India]

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

you are correct that win8 wont let you just run things with admin access, but im not sure that you have to go through setting up a seprate account to get it.
i have found that you can simply right-click on the program that you want to have admin access and choose the run as admin option.
the down side being that you have to do this every time

I can run things as admin, when logged in as admin or a user with admin rights.

I cannot download anything as admin. That's where the additional account comes in. It's a known issues or "feature" with Win 8 and quite frankly, sucks

[myriverse]

20 times a week the game lies to me and tells me my spell files are out of date.

[Olidaen_Delacroix]

You have to install Everquest on C:/. Not in Program Files.

Your Everquest install folder should be C:/Everquest.

This worked for me at least. (PS : i disabled UAC too)

[aamok]

yeah good idea india, i'm gonna try making a new user account.

i am positive it let me copy the files though. the first time i tried i let winrar extract the whole thing, then the second time i manually extracted each file.

@olidaen yep! it's for sure in c:\everquest

[aamok]

blahhhhh i cant get an effing break.

so i made a new user and made sure it had admin. reinstalled eq fresh to c:\everquest, then extracted the new patch to that same directory. afterwards i made a shortcut to eqgame.exe and added "patchme"

i must say i have no idea how to resolve this and am super frustrated. ive also disabled my firewall, opened all my ports, disabled my antivirus software... idk what could be giving me grief.

is there a copy of the spell file that the login screen is complaining about that i can edit/replace? is there something i'm doing wrong or missing?

[India]

Here's another idea, which has worked for a few people

First make sure you are using the most recent patch - P99files33.zip

Then try deleting these files and then re-extracting them from the V33 patch file

dbstr_us.txt
spells_us.txt
spellsnew.edd
spellsnew.eff

[aamok]

kk good idea ty

[aamok]

awww didn't work. deleted the above 4 files and re-extracted them one at a time from the patch.

[India]

My last suggestion - did you go thru the stickies at the top of this forum. They have step by step instructions and perhaps, just maybe, one of the steps was missed?

Also maybe try Duxa's installer/updater thingy? I've never used it but a lot of people have had great success with it


I'm out of ideas [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Sorry I know it's frustrating not being able to play when you want to

[aamok]

naw its cool. i appreciate all your efforts for real <3