The server has been up for a little bit now with no zone crashes.
I been spending the whole day searching on eqemu, Google, and trying different tweaks to get things running.
There was some time the time power went out on my end for a while. Tree branch fell on power line, so my wife called power company. They had no idea, and came out and fixed it fast. She gave them snacks for doing good heh.
Long story short, I came across this topic on eqemu:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showpost.php?p=223153&postcount=10I originally compiled in debug, but that topic linked suggested trying to compile in RelWithDebInfo mode and so far no issues with that version of build.
I checked the Windows Server Setup Guide 10x over combing through it to see if I missed any minor details, at :
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=WindowsServerSetupGuideOf course I was able to skip over a few things. Already had Perl 5.12, CMake, TortoiseSVN, and MySQL installed, so I just had to setup to their new directory paths, and a few other things we haven't used yet such as Git for Windows and Visual Studio Express 2012 For Windows Desktop (used previous version before for VS).
Probably 2 minor updates/changes I'd make to that guide, such as to not use default install for Git. Instead select option of Git for Windows during install, not basic option, so option shows up in right click menu.
Also shows for compile using default 'Debug' and getting the files from:
C:\EQ\Source\Build\Bin\Debug
But would be better to compile in RelWithDebInfo and get files from:
C:\EQ\Source\Build\Bin\RelWithDebInfo
... which RelWithDebInfo instead of Debug seems to have fixed the rolling zone crashes.
Sorry if too much info lol. Just killing type writing this up while keeping eye on client/zones for crashes, and so far 0 issues. Very hopeful its fixed now.
