With a little work I was able to get up and working last night about 9:30. Problem is my primary is a Bard and most of his songs aren't working. Just wondering if this is a unique problem.

for all those of you who have posted after 5 am est (whats that 2 am pst?) duhhh yer download went great (or better than the previouse posts), cause we were all in bed and not trying to patch anymore (not to mention they finally got the additional patch servers up, inc patch, add patch, oops add 2 patch servers, etc etc, train patchservers to the consumers). I downloaded all files at 7am est (while all you california lag creators were still in bed), not one prob (duh nearly no traffic). So now there are a few less people that will be trying to download the patches tonight during prime time internet usage. Those of you who have experienced problems since 5am est, need to either DL DX 8.1, DL the new exe from sony's site (just cause it's alot faster that way), or you completely screwed up your xml file (where you changed the options on the new patcher to auto dl kunark/veliouse/luclin/option but turned off main original) theres a concept, why did verant let us turn off the one we absolutely needed? bahhhh 18 icq's last night about that one, and 18 reply's telling them how to fix that and informing them it wouldnt help. Now if we could all just stick together and log in at the exact same time everyday (so that we can dup last night) then sony might decide to make these add patch servers a permanent (yeah right). Then again if your still having problems DL'ing the patch (with the 3 aformentioned reasons corrected or were correct for that matter) then join the list of people waiting in line tonight, as i will be playing (along with the majority of the EQ comunity), and always remember "specific" error messages are usualy good things to post, as they will lead to people like me telling ya how to overide/fix certain things to make it work, (or ya could just bypass the patcher software all together and Directly DL the files one by one (which i was too lazy last night to do)

Where do I go to change my temporary memory allocation file?

Increase your temporary memory allocation file to a HUGE number and the patch downloads perfectly. see you in luclin :)

I am having problems downloading only one file... I got all the rest of the update files, and when it gets to 'sharvahl_sounds.eff' it freezes for about 30 minutes. Then it continued all the rest of the downloads. Once it was finished it keeps trying to dl the sharvahl file...I got as much help as I could from everquest.coma and I downloaded their updater fix, but it still doesn't work. Could anyone send me this file through e-mail?

To Answers~ I'm even having trouble getting onto everquest.com, it locks up before the page downloads =(

Alright. Well since everyone else around here has turned into a bard, I might as well. Anyways, I grabbed SoL yesterday around 1pm Est and was all ready to go and had to wait around for 5 hours to even start patching. Failed, failed, failed and failed again. Anyways, I moved to a second computer and played AvP2 (good game) while I waited the 7hrs for the patcher. At 1am I decided I better go home since I work at 10am and left it patching. When I got back I expected it to have stalled, but nope, somewhere in the night it finished and I checked it out, yay, so it only took 7+hrs of patching on a DSL connection.

Anyways, the bad planning seems to be this. The exits I have found for the new city are two bridges which are really high (I wouldn't even jump it with my 17 rog). But, here is the bad part. As I am sure you all know, in EQ aggro range is infinte in height as well, guess what is under the bridge? Yah, suck to be a newbie walking the bridge only to get attacked by some unseen assailant don't it?

Diffin
17 Rogue
Luclin

My gripe. I was able to get in finally and view the new models. I have 512 ram and a geforce 2 card with 64mb ram so it was suggested that i can view all models. Graphics are really choppy. Anyone got any thoughts?

Pigfoot,
Badly dressed Cleric

Hello all, this is my first time posting on this board even though I have been reading it for a long time. As we all know we were having problems with the patch. Well I gave up around 11PM EST, watched some TV and went to bed. Woke up at 6am EST to get ready for work, turned on my PC and the was able to get the whole patch with my DSL in the time it took my to brush my teeth. Was all happy and jumped in the shower figureing I would be able to check out how my characters looked before I went to work. Oh was I wrong. Before anyone says anything yes I downloaded the DirectX 8.1 and it recoginized my GeForce 32Meg card. Well okay, so after I got out of the shower I hit Play, then it went through all the normal BS. I got to the Server Selection screen, hit Tarrew Marr and Hit the Icon in the lower right corner, "enter EQ" or something like that. Well it loades the EQ screen, playes the music. It now has a cute little meter on the bottom saying how far along it is. Well as soon as it's finished and I was expecting to be able to select my Dark Elf ShadowKnight to see how it looks it kicks me off the game back to my desktop. Mind you all I didn't reboot my machine since I was in a rush for work.
I tried this a couple times and it kept happening, I was able to log into EQ, select the my server then as soon as I was expecting to select my character it kicked me back to my desktop? Can anyone let me know if this is happening to them and if their is a know fix?
BTW what is this I am reading that EQ is going to be down till Saturday? Is this just some BS or is it writen down somewhere. Thanks you all and I hope that you have a better day then I did with this crap.
Thenger 55th SK on Tarrew Marr

A few things i need to know
First, how can i find what video card i have?
Second am i the only one who is having trouble with thier text being box like and runningout of the text box, Having a flashy inventory screen, and very slow ticking (once evry 3-5 min) bard songs?
And third, what maybe doping this and how can i fix it?
Any suggestions can help me out Thanx alot

Aolis bard of 9 seasons

Well before I went to school this mornin I started the patch program at 7am PST. And it said I only have thirty minutes left. So i am hoping for the best I will keep you updated.

Mamien
15th year of his Druid journey