Patcher fails to initialize.

[Vyara]

<p>My husband and I decided we want to come back to EQ2 after being away for more than a year, but we encountered a problem.</p><p>My husband's computer runs Windows XP and he was able to flawlessly install the game, download all patches and log in. However, my computer runs a Windows Vista (32-bit) and as soon as I get to the patcher, a message pops us that says the patcher failed to initialize and that the server may be busy. In the details window it says the patcher failed to find a proper connection.</p><p>We both share one internet connection through a router. I tried disabling my firewall, put EQ2.exe and Launcher.exe on the exceptions list both in the built-in firewall and McAfee, I checked to see if my Work Offline option is checked in IE7 (it isn't), right-clicked on the EQ2.exe icon and checked the "run as administrator" tab. Also, I made sure that my computer account has permission to do anything to the game folder itself.</p><p>So, currently, I am at a loss. If anyone knows how to fix it, I will be more than grateful.</p><p>I will post my computer configuration if needed.</p>

[thyriel81]

McAffee is known to bug the launcher, that is for sure one problem.Another could be that it may be necessary to run it with admin rights (rightclick -> run as administrator)However, to save you a huge bandwith and time, the much more faster way would be if you just copy the whole folder from your XP computer to your vista computer and use those files.

[Vyara]

<p>It worked! Thank you.</p><p>I had done the right click --> Run as administrator earlier before, but I didn't have Windows firewall and McAfee disabled. Now I ran the msconfig program and  unchecked all of the McAfee components and the firewall at startup, restarted, right-clicked on the EQ2 icon and selected the Run as administrator option and the Launchpad actually started downloading additional content before even giving me the option to enter my log-in name and password. Now I am downloading game patches.</p><p>Thank you much!</p>