EZ Server

April 2012 *UPDATE*

With all the crap that has happened with file hosts, my original links were gone all too quickly. Thankfully, there are some really awesome folks in this community!

Again, thanks guys!

Good looking out!  Thanks a ton for this!

Can't seem to get this client to play in full screen mode. It crashes if I hit Alt Enter or try to turn the option on in game. Any idea's?

Honestly, I have not played EQ in anything but maximized window since at least 2002, so I never tested stability for it at all.

However, that said... I did just log into an account on my main PC and click the toggle for full screen in-game. It switched over with no issue at all. I am not in a position to test on multiple PCs, as many are working on tasks tonight that cannot be interrupted (apologies), so I cannot say anything about specific graphic card/drivers at this moment.

I will test on some single core machines with Nvidia cards tomorrow if possible, but I can say for certain that my primary machine does not suffer from this problem.
Specifications for the machine in question:
AMD Phenom II x4 3.70GHz
16 GB of ram
2x ATI Radeon HD 5770 2gig video cards (Crossfire linked)
Drivers checked for updates every Tuesday morning at 3am.


If you have an ATI/AMD card I would check your drivers. I promise to test on one of my single core machines with Nvidia graphics in the next day or two.

*EDIT*
I had a couple machines finish tasks and was still awake, so I checked in what I could.
On an old P4 3.0 GHz single core machine with 2 Gig of ram and a Radeon 5450 512 meg video card, no issue swapping between windowed and full screen.
On an almost identical P4 3.0GHz single core with 2 Gig of ram and an Nvidia GT430 1 Gig video card, no issue swapping between windowed and full screen.

*added* Checked on an Intel i3 Dual Core (3.1 GHz) with 8 gig of ram and an older Nvidia 8400 GS 1 Gig video card. Still no crash on swap between windowed and full screen.

Also tested on an older Dell laptop with Intel Integrated video. Choppy graphics, not really playable, but was able to swap between full screen and windowed with no issues.

Huge apologies. I have tried everything I can think of, but I cannot reproduce your crash, and so I cannot try to determine the problem.
What video card and system specs are you running, exactly? If I can put one together similar to yours I will be happy to give it another go.

Make sure you have the latest DirectX 9 installed.  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=35

Hey guys im thinking about trying this server and was wondering if this link gives me the full game, i already ordered the tit version from amazon for project 1999 but i want to play this server now instead and would love to try underfoot? If this is the full game i just download and unzip? and follow the read me instructions? Thanks any help would be great.

And should i wait until all files are downloaded before i use 7zip? As of right now i got two files downloaded and cannot extract any of them. I'm not that good at this type of stuff.

Devil

I appreciate all your work. I figured it out for future reference it was the eqclient.ini file had the full screen resolution set higher than my monitor supports. So all I had to do is go into the file and manually change it and everything works fine on full screen.

Narsil how did you unzip it mate? i'm having a hard time, did u need all files first? And Thanks Devil awesome of you to take the time to do this.

Apologies for my slow response. Today was my one day a week to unplug my network, turn off my phones and sleep until I felt like getting out of bed again.

DOH! I should have considered that! When I set my native resolution I likely set it for both windowed and full screen, even though I never use full screen!!! VERY sorry, and thank you for figuring it out. I racked my brain for hours and just could not think of what was wrong! I am sure this will save someone some headache in the future.


YES you need all the files before you do anything else.
When you download a split file, it is a single file that a program has "cut" into pieces. Before you can recombine these pieces you need to have them all together in one directory.

Once you have all of them in one directory, just open the 001 file with 7zip and you should see the complete folder inside. Extract the folder (or even just drag and drop it) from the 7zip browser (using the password "ezserver'), and you should be all set. The only change you will need to make to use this set is creating a shortcut and adding "patchme" to it (and there is a readme in the file that explains this very clearly). Other than that, just watch Hunter's updates for changes and apply them as he releases them, no need to go looking for other files at all.

Devilbane people like you are hard to come by these days, thanks man. Only in a Game like EQ would someone take the time to do something like this.

Ok i have downloaded all 14 files and seem to only have 5202 mbs total am i missing something? Trying one more thing before i give up for the night hopefully this works, im compressing all the files into one folder and going to try to unzip them has a whole. Hopefully this works

5 gig for the zipped files is pretty much perfect. What you will be unzipping will be nearly 6.5gig after it is uncompressed. You should be totally good to go.

All you need to do is put all 14 into one place (desktop, a folder, wherever, just keep them together) and use 7zip to open the first one. 7zip will handle everything else, it will recombine everything. The first one (001) is all you should need to "unpack" from your perspective.

Keep getting error cannot open has a archive i have tried extracting it but it just remakes the same files i already have, all files are in the same folder. howerver the 001 now has a diffrent icon look then all the others.
Gonna retry downloading the first file again.
Also when i download the files i am just saving them and not using a program to open them until i have them downloaded. I also downloaded diffrent parts from diffrent servers. i doubt that is the issue tho,

Yeah I... have no idea what... hrrrmmm...

The parts are interchangeable, which service you DL from does not matter as long as you have 1-14.
Once all 14 parts are in a folder (lets assume it is called "downloads") all you should have to do is start 7zip and point it at that folder, then select 001.
At that point you should see "into" the compressed files, and find the folders inside ready to extract. Select one (or select all) and choose "extract" and give it a location to extract the file(s).

im having the same issue 7zip wont open up file .001 for me its giving me unspecific error message

Same error i been having, when i get home and off work im going to try to open it in the file thru 7zip and see if that works, I think you actualy need to run 7zip first and find the file in the 7zip directory.

Yup same error. i wonder if i some how messed up the file when i was playing with it at the start.

Tried everything even combined the files together, which when combined they come to 4.69 gigs which leads me to think im missing something but i have all 14 files. The last file number 14 was smaller than the others.

The last few hours, I have redownloaded all 14 pieces to check for errors.

Step by step:
1) I downloaded all 14 pieces.
2) Opened 7zip and selected part 001
3) Extracted 2 folders and a readme to my desktop (password worked okay)

I have no errors.

Really confused and not sure what to say. All I can think of is that something is wonky with 7zip and/or file associations?

The last file is much smaller than the others. I cut the file into 400 meg pieces as that is the maximum most filehosts will allow for download without paying a membership, and the last part is what was "left over" from those cuts.

What has me really confused about this though, is yesterday you said:But today you have: The exact filesize of all 14 pieces is: 5.08 GB (5,455,076,888 bytes). If you have a different filesize than this, there is definitely an issue somewhere.

*bewildered look* I just have no idea what to say.

i have been messing with stuff man and i ended up hitting a key called compile files, i do not know what i have done to be honest but i have learned a shit ton off this stuff, I am in no way trying to discredit anything you have done. But after i compiled the files into one file under props it said it was 4.69 /shrug The file that hold the 14 files before i compile them is in fact around 5 gigs. I think where i went wrong is i tried to open the file with a program before I downloaded all the files. I'm not very good with computers  ???, other then the fact that the game goes into the cd drive install then play haha.  Anyways i cleared all the old files off and uninstalled 7zip and plan on redownloading them. Thanks for taking the time to educate me on this man.

Edit
I am now downloading again and noticed something kinda weird
the first two files names are ezuf.7z and then the 3rd file is enuf.7z003 when i first downloaded them they where ezuf.7z001 and 002.

These two files have had their extensions become associated with some program (I would guess 7zip). Your computer currently has the option to "hide extensions of known file types" enabled (and for most all end users that is a good thing). It means that both the 001 and 002 files have been told to use something (I would still guess 7zip) as default.

If 7zip is opened and used to browse and then open the file (rather than clicking the file directly) none of these associations will ultimately matter. However, if you have already uninstalled 7zip (earlier you stated that was your plan) and you are not seeing the 001/002 extensions then it means these files have become associated with some other program. If that is the case, it may well be part of your problem.

still not working, redownloaded files show as 7zip files, nothing.

king of agree with fugi, you literally have to: install the program, right click on the first 7zip file, normally .001 and go to "7-zip -> extract to..." or "7-zip -> extract here". it really cannot be explained any better then in this one sentence.

when you say that doesn work does that mean the option is there, it just gives an error or is there just no option to extract the files when you right click the .001 file? i remember having a problem with 7zip installing on a machine by it not adding the ability to right click extract, but that was fixed with a new download & re-install.

Yeah digz i've dled 7zip i point it at the file tell it to extract and it gives a message of unspecified error. i've tried to extract it all on the desktop, all in a file, tried extracting it in a file. i redownloaded all 14 parts i redownloaded 7zip. it seems like its a permissions error with windows 7  but i run it as an admin and it still doesn't work. i tried using winRAR to extract the files and that didn't work either.


fugi e.s.a.d. troll somewhere else thanks

I have yet to finish my all my files for my second download with my busy work week but im getting there halfway done maybe tommorow ill finish up,  in reference to this  "you are not seeing the 001/002 extensions then it means these files have become associated with some other program. If that is the case, it may well be part of your problem". If this is the case is there a way to make them not associated with this other program? i wonder if  windows 7 has something to do with this.

I created the 7zip batch on a Windows 7 machine, and have unpacked/tested it on XP32 and XP64 (yes, I know XP64 is unsupported/disliked or whatever, it is still the version I prefer over any other for stability and raw power without all the bloat). With that, I am pretty sure it should be fine on any Windows system.

For any normal compressed file, you should be able to disassociate the file within 7zip itself (if it is installed). When you open 7zip, click tools then options. The first tab (system) has a series of checkboxes for standard extension association, just uncheck the ones you want another program to handle (like .rar or .zip files that would be best handled by WinRAR or WinZIP respectively). For the 001/002 files, there is not a "normal" program for these extensions to handle (they really are only used for files cut into pieces) and I cannot think of a simple way to disassociate them off the top of my head.

If you need to associate a file with another program specifically that is simple enough, just hold shift and rightclick on "open with" and select the new program which you wish to associate the extension, and make sure the "always open with this" open is checked. MicroSoft assumes you always want an extension associated with something, so it will not work to just disassociate an extension without a new association... so it's not really the best possible answer to your question. It's just the only one I know right off the top of my head.

*lots of editing and retconning, pardon the dust*

When I set out to create and share this, it was intended to save people all the headache of looking for BoT files from previous versions, graphic errors and the other dozen or so issues I try to help people solve every day in game. I had no remote idea in creating this thread it would actually lead to new problems... . For these new issues I do deeply apologize.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+use+7zip

if youre getting unspecified error then just double check, hell even tripple check all 14 files are present and are the same size (expect the last one, .014). Downloading from 14 separate pages/links, one can very easily miss or have one thats incomplete. both of theses will result in unspecified error.

OK I downloaded this and did my own tests. Found that it was still missing some zone files. I added the missing files, put the client into a single .rar file, and uploaded to p.b. in torrent

any other torrent sites you wish me to upload to PM it to me or /tell in game.

name = EZUF

description = UF for "ezserver"

This is just the client, no MQ in it. That is easy to obtain.

Cheers
Fliker

Love a list of these missing files. I have had over 2 dozen people DL and use this with no issues, no missing files and no hangups.

Also, thanks for the torrent. My ISP freaked out when the whole SOPA crap started, and torrents are throttled so bad they are unusable here.

i  know plane of storms was missing, so did a copy from SoD not sure what other ones copied over. That's just the first one I checked. Might have been the only one.

Took all day to DL 14 parts and noticed some posts having issues with either parts or 7zip.

Figured a .tor would be liked.

yw

That is odd.
All 5 (yep, I had 5 in there, not 7... I f'd up!) postorms files are in the archive, and I had someone zone in and test Plane of Dragons before I ever uploaded it(someone zoned in on the other PC, not the one I uploaded from... I suck).

*UPDATE*
After EQEMU stopped being flakey, I got in. Samuraibane zoned into PoD just fine. So then I tried the other PC. Sam did *NOT* zone into PoD, he just stood in the nexus looking quite stupid and hailing a defenseless NPC over and over waiting for what I thought was lag to cease.

Part 15: (This is the standalone Plane of Dragons (Plane of Storms) files. They correct the issue in this build. Sorry for the error.
Additionally, if you need them for the Steam Version of UnderFoot, these are the SoD files you are looking for!
In either case, just add them to the everquest folder once you have it extracted and setup. Password is "ezserver" same as always)
Hotfile: http://hotfile.com/dl/145315175/c0b6b11/PoD_Files.7z.html (http://hotfile.com/dl/145315175/c0b6b11/PoD_Files.7z.html)
Rapidshare: https://rapidshare.com/files/2425313733/PoD_Files.7z (https://rapidshare.com/files/2425313733/PoD_Files.7z)
(password is "ezserver" same as always)

Thanks for the catch, Fliker! It is nice to know when I screw up, someone is watching out for us all!

pretty much officially love the UF client now that it added the ability to shift click corpses, farming uc's just got a LOT less painfull.

this was my problem i actually downloaded 5 x2 and hadn't noticed. seems to be working now. will edit after its finished


edit: new error, progresses to 27% and gives following information:

0 underfoot client - ezserver\sony\everquest\dragonscale.eqg
1 data error(cyclic redundancy check)

Cyclic redundancy check is what I always got when my cd was unreadable. Not sure why it would be giving that error unless your hd has a bad sector.

That means the file is damaged.  It should tell you which part, and you'll need to download that one again.

I'd also make sure you're using the latest version of 7-zip available, and that you downloaded it from http://www.7-zip.org/

Works great downloaded again and simply did what I was suppose to do. Thanks Bane

I am taking a break from EZ Server. No naming of names or fingerpointing, I just feel like there are alot more people that enjoy talking down to others, making fun of people for playing the "wrong" class and all in all a larger number of annoyances than pleasures these days. I don't quite understand why it is the way it has become, but it's not something I enjoy dealing with at all.

I may be back in a few weeks... or I may not be back at all. My last break from EZ lasted around 8 months I think, and I was nowhere near as disgusted then as I have been for the last several days.

Why does this matter, and why is it posted in this thread? Well, it matters because it means I will not be paying attention to this thread anymore. If my links go away, I may notice it and come replace them with fresh links... or I may not. I will not promise to stay on top of something unless I honestly believe I will be able to follow through, and at this point I am not at all sure.

If anyone else wants to mirror these parts, I am sure the community would appreciate it.
Good luck and keep safe everyone!

Can shift/click on SoD also

ehhhh fugg em that's why i keep to myself mostly unless i'm helping people or wanting some "companionship" on a certain quest or something...some people are content with boxing all the way up and not letting others in...i'm not one of those people...i enjoy grouping and in the beginning that's what EQ was all about....i believe most people have forgotten this aspect of the game and have become greedy, self-righteous (and for the lack of a better word we'll say "people")...

but i understand what you mean...if it doesn't make you happy...then don't do it....enjoy your time away and be safe!

hateborne.dyndns.org (http://hateborne.dyndns.org)
ezserver
client

Enjoy ladies, gents, rat trolls.


-Hate



(P.S - Anyone have SoF or SoD that I might add?)

 I got SoD, the steam version we all used, if ya need or I can upload it. With working MQ, if ya want it too lol.

 I also got the file to upgrade SoD to see UF weapons and such, if ya want it. Could be alternate to having to d/l UF.

edit:

 That graphic packs I sent ya lets SoD view up to HoT weapons. I don't have UF to look and see, but it could also make UF see HoT also. So thats one more expansion of graphics to play with.

Thanks to Drezden, SoD is now on the list as well.

http://hateborne.dyndns.org/
Click ezserver -> clients


Enjoy ya crazy bastards!

-Hate

HUGE thanks for updating and hosting, Hateborne and Drezden! You guys are great!

I logged in a couple times this week and was considering a new file host, but I see that is not even needed!

I'll update the OP to reflect all of this. Thanks again!

Thank you for setting up the files originally. I am running 50 MB/s up and down, so I figured I could spare the bandwidth.

-Hate

Check your char eqini, there is a setting in there to address the windowed mode.

Only issue I have with UF is no corpses show on map.
tryed /mapfilter corpse show get message saying corpse set to show but still not on the map.

Any ideas?

Try changing the corpse color, that seemed to work for me..

Will do. Thanks

/mapshow corpse

/mapshow corpse worked. thanks

Hey, Hate! Your site's down. Just wanted to let ya know :D

let me ask this, does these files include the frozenshadows and PoD files? or do i still need download and install them.

ok went to start and got an error, to make sure i restarted comp and still there;

   error reads as follows: instruction at 0x04410a0e referanced memory at 0xfffffffc. the memory could not be read.

all other clients are good and run, this is just on underfoot, the one i downloaded from hate's site. please help if you can.

Had the same problem. Fix:
1) delete entire client
2) re-unzip from source files
3) sweet victory

Optionally if you have already loaded up and got UI how ya like, back up your UI files.

Ok got it to work, had to run it as admin. but wont run as just regular user. i go with what work LOL

There's no reason you should need to run it as admin unless you've installed it to a protected directory like Program Files or Program Files (x86).  You'll be much happier if you don't install there.

Just downloaded on windows 7 32bit. i get 0-0 expansions. What do i need to edit/fix to update the owned expansions?

thank you

That can be ignored. Just play.

Then why can i not buy AAs from the extra expansion? i can only get the first three.

thanks

AA's  don't change with our clients. They are in the base program of the ver of emu.
Main reason why Hunter doesn't do anything with em.

nm...figured it out ;)