EverQuest Tech Support

[johnjohn320]

Nope, same deal.

BTW, thanks for being patient and helping me through this.

 

[Looney]

What sound card are you using? and are you using the latest drivers?

 

[Looney]

ah, you're using Santa Cruz too? are you using the latest drivers that were posted in General Hardware a couple of weeks ago... or the original for XP?

 

[johnjohn320]

Yeah, I'm using a Santa Cruz, if I can figure out how to get friggin XP to tell me what drivers I'm using (they make it so difficult in this OS, i'm still new to XP) then I'll be sure to let you know.

 

[Looney]

Where did you download the drivers from? were they recent drivers you downloaded like 2 weeks ago? and did they say beta?

 

[Looney]

Oh, did you even install sound drivers? or are you using WinXP default ones?

 

[Looney]

http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/kb_ftp/585ftp.asp

Download the file called

sc_4161s.zip 21306952 04-26-02 WINDOWS 2000, XP, ME | WDM v.4161
| SIGNED, MICROSOFT CERTIFIED driver |

NOT the beta

 

[johnjohn320]

(smack forehead). Found em. I'm using 5.12.1.4112 from 8/29/2001. Guess I should I update. The betas in GH then?

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/kb_ftp/585ftp.asp

Download the file called

sc_4161s.zip 21306952 04-26-02 WINDOWS 2000, XP, ME | WDM v.4161
| SIGNED, MICROSOFT CERTIFIED driver |

NOT the beta

K, I'm downloading that now, 20 megs though so it'll be a few...

 

[johnjohn320]

K, drivers have been updated with said file, still no luck though. Same prob.

 

[Looney]

Any luck this time?

 

[Looney]

ah damn

 

[Looney]

You can read the official board, right?

Well, what i would do if i were you, is to uninstall EQ, and reinstall it... i think you may have messed up the patcher by going directly to testserver first before running everquest.exe

This time, reinstall eq, and try running everquest directly, without going to the tutorial or test server.

If that still doesn't work, follow these instructions and post the information here... and i'll post it on the official eq technical forum for you tomorrow morning

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/everquest/Forum3/HTML/020934.html

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
You can read the official board, right?

Well, what i would do if i were you, is to uninstall EQ, and reinstall it... i think you may have messed up the patcher by going directly to testserver first before running everquest.exe

This time, reinstall eq, and try running everquest directly, without going to the tutorial or test server.

If that still doesn't work, follow these instructions and post the information here... and i'll post it on the official eq technical forum for you tomorrow morning

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/everquest/Forum3/HTML/020934.html

Will do. Thanks again for helping me out.

 

[Looney]

np, keep me up to date on if the reinstalling works... never encountered an error like yours before.

 

[johnjohn320]

Well, I'll be damned. It seems to be working now, or at least it "updated the patcher", and now has a nice pretty graphic that's downloading files. It's different so far, at least.

So, I should I just avoid the TestServer thing like the plague? Kinda seems screwy that running something that automatically put on your desktop would fvck you like that.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Well, I'll be damned. It seems to be working now, or at least it "updated the patcher", and now has a nice pretty graphic that's downloading files. It's different so far, at least.

So, I should I just avoid the TestServer thing like the plague? Kinda seems screwy that running something that automatically put on your desktop would fvck you like that.

No, testserver works... but i think when you ran it first before running the normal everquest.exe, it downloaded the wrong files in the wrong order. testserver is just that... it's a server where everquest tests new stuff before bringing it live. there's no support, and they're always trying really wacky stuff there. VERY small population, quite boring imo.