Troubleshooting EQ2 - Help needed please

[Noxxy]

Welcome to EQ2 boxing Altsoba!

PC specs:
- Your PC specs aren't a problem at all
- The game runs on both 32 and 64 bit Vista with a huge range of GCards

The game runs till I try to connect to a server and then just crashes...

1)
- Did you try running it as administrator? (R Click EQ2 icon, click run as admin, enter admin pword)
- Have personally found that a fair few games don't run at all unless I run as admin
2)
- There are 2 x EQ2 application icons to start the game
- The first runs the patcher which you MUST run to make sure the game is up to date escpecially after purchasing
- The second does not run the patcher, if you clicked this by accident, the game has no chance at all to run due to all the patches since TSO came out (ok to run this one if you are positive the game is up to date)
3)
- Make sure the game is fully patched

I have directx 10 and it's not supported

- Bullsh1t - the game runs just fine dx10 or no dx10

I thought maybe my video drivers aren't up to date. I was right, downloaded latest version...

- always run the latest drivers to get the best out of the game

... just to find out that the recommended drivers for my card are dated August last year...

- that would be the 'minimum' recommended drivers

I unistalled everything, reinstalled it and I now see the message No servers available

- still sounds like you may be hitting the run application icon or not running as admin or you haven't patched correctly

After having installed The Shadow Odyssey, I have an update of almost 8 hours (I don't know if there's some way to know at what speed I'm downloading but my connection is a steady 130k/s. is it normal to have such a huge update even having bought the latest expansion?

- d/load speed - depends on your connection, location, etc., no real way to determine exactly as it will change
- huge update - yep - always

When I say this might be the reason behind the crashes is that I didn't wait for it (ongoing still) to launch the game and since I was able to create a character, choose server, etc I thought this update thingie might be some weird thing going on along with all the others.

- Ooook, so the game was updating...and you tried to run/start the game before the update has completed?



Ok.....



- stand up
- take right hand
- slap yourself silly across the face
- sit down
- after composing yourself
- right click the EQ2.exe icon (which is the patcher version)
- run as admin
- WAIT for the thing to patch - do it late at night when you go to bed, it should be completed by the time you wake up
- enjoy!

n0x