Back from a break, and now it's broke... HELP!

[kingsBlend]

Try running the eqemu launcher as administratior. Right click the shortcut >properties > check run as admin.

[jacobrenchen]

My oh my, fresh install, and still same thing. No idea whats going on!!!!???

[jacobrenchen]

Running as admin didn't do anything. Emulauncher will still not work for me and getting same popup message when i try to log in. =/

[jacobrenchen]

All I should need to do is change eqhost after install, correct? and change the shortcut to .exe patchme to avoid patcher, yea?

[Savok]

Your running eqgame.exe and not everquest.exe right?

[jacobrenchen]

aye.

[lilyanna]

This sounds like an issue someone else had and it was actually down to their internet provider blocking a port. Might be worth checking that out.

Also, what anti-virus do you use? Check it hasn't removed any of the EQ files that you need.

[fadetree]

The message you get means that
a) you have the wrong info in your eqhosts file, ie., wrong/bad IP or port, or possibly that the eqhosts file itself is unreadable or incorrectly formatted. In any case, it means the program is not getting the correct IP/port setting.
OR
b) somebody along the pipes from your computer to the host is blocking the ip and/or port.

can you ping the login server? ie., open up a dos cmd box and type
ping eqemulator.net

you should see something like ( may look slightly different )

Pinging eqemulator.net [67.23.190.71] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.23.190.71: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.23.190.71: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.23.190.71: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.23.190.71: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 67.23.190.71:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 78ms, Average = 64ms

if you can ping eqemulator.net, then the port is probably being blocked.

port 5998 is a diagnostic telnet port ( ncd-diag ) and it may be blocked by windows firewall or your AV product...try turning off all firewalling and even your AV ( temporarily ).

Check your cable router by logging into it and see if it has any firewalling/port blocking going on....maybe even give cable customer service a call.

[jacobrenchen]

Thanks again for all your input. I'm chugging The ping did work so I'm checking the ISP, Firewall, AV, and all other things i can think of that may block the port. I think we're getting close to solving this issue, thanks again all!!

[titofuentes]

If EQEmu isn't updating files you might want to check that the Everquest folder isn't read only or that it can be read/write by you. I had an issue on my desktop where I didn't have permissions set up on the folders to be able to update things. Maybe that's happening to you.