If most of you stop whining and went to the store and upgraded. your problems would go away and you would be having fun. ok so you have to buy win98 now instead of some other game. win98 is very cheap. i saw it for $40 US. might find it for less. I have noticed that every expansion that verant has put out the min regs go up.....

Upgraded to DirectX8.1, upgraded to the latest drivers for my graphics card, which is supported, and I still get a 'No 3D Devices Found' error. How long does this kind of thing usually take to fix? A week? 2 weeks? We pay, but we can't play. How long must we wait before this becomes fraud?

Anyone having trouble seeing Black Boxes, the Intel 810 Bug, appearently a patch will be up around 1am PST, that leaves us poor saps on the EAST SIDE a patch at 4am, if we're extremely lucky. I got this off a tech in the EQ Chat Room, so yeah. Good luck.

I've got a new Gateway, ripped out of its box in late October. It's definitely up to Luclin's weak requirements. So I thought it'd be a little bumpy on expansion day, but not like THIS.

I had the day off from work and was hoping to get a TON of gaming in. As it stood, I got in 1/2 hour, at 4 a.m. because of this patcher nonsense.

I had given up hope completely, when I tried one last thing ... I uninstalled the game ... reinstalled it from my Trilogy box. Then redownloaded the whole stupid patch. After that time was wasted, the patcher would finally actually DO something.

I finally got in after another hour or so of downloads. BUT, I still can't just BYPASS the auto-play function and use the advanced settings like I could the day before. Which is annoying since the game still wants me to download too many files that I ALREADY downloaded.

The silver lining being that AT LEAST I CAN PLAY THE GAME. Ugh. I feel so bad for so many people who can't get in. It's actually pretty LONELY in there, as I've barely been in a zone with more than 3 people.

This is just bad form for Verant.

-Wubao
Shaolin Monk of the 16th Chamber
Silent Fist Disciple of the Orange Headband
Ashen Order Initiate of the Orange Sash

"Can't sleep, clown'll eat me" - Homer J. Simpson

I am having some problems getting the patcher to put the files where I need them. Ever since I had to download the new Everquest.exe in replace of the old one, the new patcher seems to put all the files on my desktop. Anyone know anything I could try?

Honnis Hailmaker of Luclin
53 Halfling Druid

DEATH TO THINE VERANT FOR HIS IMFAMOUS ACTS OF STUPIDITY!!!

Yeah, this is complete BS! It says that I don't even have a 3d card when it is done doing that patch thing! GrrrAHH!! This STINKS! I DO HAVE A 3D Card! Everything was fine a few days ago.. and now this?? All I have to say is they better fix it VERY soon...or I'll unleash the power of the angry forest on them!

Treezare Var'Iongre of the Rathe

"Peas are silly, bushes are lazy, and TREES ARE ANGRY!!"

ok after a 3 hour patch...got cable modem and works great still...i have had no prodlems...normal lag for after patch day...yes i bought and upgraded to be at the recommended spec for playing the game (my wife and I both play{ 2 accounts})...both computers are Intel Pentium 4 1.6Ghz SBLive 32ATIRadeon 512MB Windows XP...have had only patching problems...played for 6 hours...even played the kitties (very nice area). i have followed the instruction of verrant and have had minor problems.

this is all BS, i cant see why Verant would do this to all his loyal customers. Its very apparent to me that no one can really play the game successfully at this point. Those who get in game freeze soon after. I myself freeze as im "entering" world. Verant woulda done himself as well as us a huge favor by having his sh*t together before releasing this expansion. So right now i'm paying money for something that i cant access or play, which really does not please me. Verant, you are floating on thin ice buddy.

YOU CANT MAKE A ONLINE GAME MORE ADVANCED WITHOUT THE PEOPLE THAT PLAY IT KEEPING UP WITH THE TECH.
RIGHT NOW THE GAME IS STILL BEING FIXED SO WHY WORRY ABOUT YOUR EQUIPMENT NOT WORKING AND GETTING ALL MAD? IF YOU BOUGHT RAM THEN THAT WAS GOOD MONEY SPENT, ITS AT A ALL TIME LOW COST ANYWAYS. ANY EQUIPMENT THAT YOU BOUGHT FOR YOUR PC WILL MAKE YOUR PC A BETTER MACHINE. VERENT MADE THE EFFORT TO LET PEOPLE PLAY WITH A MINIMUM OF 400 PROCESSOR, 256 RAM AND A 16MB VIDEO CARD, 28 MODEM, 4 SPEED CD ROM. THESE ARE PRETTY MUCH OUTDATED SPECS AND TO REQUIRE A COMPANY TO MAKE A UP TO DATE GAME THAT PROVIDEDS KILLER CHARACTER MODELS WITH THIS KIND OF SPECS IS CRAZY. ALL I CAN SAY IS YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR PC TO KEEP UP WITH TECH OR EVENTUALLY YOULL BE LEFT BEHIND. VERANT DIDNT LEAVE YOU BEHIND YOU CAN STILL PLAY WITH OLDER GRAPHICS. YES THERES LOTS OF PEOPLE THAT CANT AFFORD IT RIGHT NOW, BUT THERES LOTS THAT WANT NEWER GRAPHICS AND THATS WHAT YOU GOT. OR WILL GET IN THE NEAR FUTURE. STOP BASHING VERANT AND GO GET UPDATED :)

If your getting a Message saying no 3D device found go to www.microsoft.com/directx and download the 8.1 drivers and it will fix your problem (Should)

Is anyone having terrible lag. It is so bad that I can't hardly move and I can't get anyone to help me