Running EQ2 on Two Different Machines

[Luna]

HiI've done a little searching and am trying to find a concrete answer... I've got EoF and I've installed it on my main desktop computer. I registered the serial with my station account blah blah. I can login and play EoF and everything fine.  Now for my question... I also would like to install EQ2 on my vista laptop and play it there as well, for when I'm not at home or would rather play somewhere else in the house instead of the basement where my desktop computer is.  ... Is this possible? To test, I installed EoF onto my laptop. Things seem to be ok so far. I login with my station name/password and it goes through 100% of the scanning of files on the launchpad. And then... it stops. It says "Download Canceled" ... so my laptop install won't download/update/patch, and I can't seem to get it to do so in order for me to play on the laptop.Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or if it's maybe a vista thing?  Or maybe I can't install EQ2 on two different machines and play on the same station account.  Please help!Thanks in advance <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Rokaab]

<p>The stoppping downloading thingy is Vista security for you, you need to run EQ2 as an administrator for it to download stuff properly. Also set it to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode as well will help.</p><p>Note: if you dont want to download everything again, you can just directlycopy the EQ2 folder from your desktop to your laptop.</p><p>And yes, you can install it on as many machines as you want to play from, since its the account that lets you play.</p>

[Luna]

<cite>Rakk@Butcherblock wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>The stoppping downloading thingy is Vista security for you, you need to run EQ2 as an administrator for it to download stuff properly. Also set it to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode as well will help.</p><p>Note: if you dont want to download everything again, you can just directlycopy the EQ2 folder from your desktop to your laptop.</p><p>And yes, you can install it on as many machines as you want to play from, since its the account that lets you play.</p></blockquote>Thank you so much for the help <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  I'm not very Vista savvy (it's my husband's laptop, and he's not savvy with it either since he only uses it when he has to for work, he otherwise runs Ubuntu on his desktop) but I am going to try and google how to run in xp sp2 compatibility mode.  I'm fairly certain I'm running EQ2 as an admin... not only is that the only account on the laptop, but I remember it asking me if I wanted to continue and whether or not I wanted to run it in admin mode when I was installing and connecting to the launch pad for the first time.Your help was really appreciated <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Thank you for setting me straight!  It looks like copying the files across the network from my desktop to the laptop will take the same amount of time as just downloading, though that's when I copy everything... I'm guessing it's just the /paks/ directory that I really need to ensure I have all of the updates?  Or is there something else I should be copying?Thanks again! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Rokaab]

<p>Running on the admin account on the pc is not the same as running EQ2 as an admin (I know it sounds stupid, thats cos it is)</p><p>To run is as admin, right-click on the eq2 icon on the desktop, click properties and its in there somewhere, that may also be where the run in XP compatibility mode thing is as well if your lucky <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Luna]

<cite>Rakk@Butcherblock wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Running on the admin account on the pc is not the same as running EQ2 as an admin (I know it sounds stupid, thats cos it is)</p><p>To run is as admin, right-click on the eq2 icon on the desktop, click properties and its in there somewhere, that may also be where the run in XP compatibility mode thing is as well if your lucky <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></p></blockquote>*sigh*I right clicked on the eq2 icon (and the .exe in my program files/sony directory, just to make sure) and chose properties. Then I checked to run eq2 as an admin as well as checked to have it run in xp sp2 compatibility mode.  Even restarted the computer.Same thing. It scans all of my files to 100%, then when it goes to do the update, it suddenly stops and says "Download Canceled."  I just can't figure out what the problem is now or why I can't download updates and patch the client.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[TSR-ChrisL]

Once you have compatibility mode set for the desktop icon, right click on the icon again and select the run as admin option. If it is still hanging up the next likely problem is User Access Control and you may want to try turning it off for testing.

[Luna]

<cite>TSR-ChrisL wrote:</cite><blockquote>Once you have compatibility mode set for the desktop icon, right click on the icon again and select the run as admin option. If it is still hanging up the next likely problem is User Access Control and you may want to try turning it off for testing.</blockquote>You are an angel. Thanks for this -- I figured once I had it checked to run as administrator that it was done... I'd have had no idea that I should also right click and choose "run as administrator" when I'm firing it up each time, too.  Thanks!  It's downloading now... it's just a little slow and sometimes gets hung up. But that's better than nothing at all!  It'll eventually get there <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Thanks again <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />