Cannot get launchpad.exe to work under Vista 32bit!

[bladecast]

<p>I see no technical help forum listed so im asking here.</p><p>I just reinstalled Everquest 2 on my pc which has Vista Home Premium 32bit edition on it.</p><p>Launchpad tries to update and then promptly crashes after downloading E2Module.dll.</p><p>I've set adminstrator on the executable but it still doesnt work.</p><p>I thought EQ2 was fully compatible with Vista?</p><p>Anyway,,, can someone help please as im feeling like ive just dropped 8quid down the bog! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" />(</p><p>PS. Apologies for the lost of blank lines in this post, but IE7 seems to be doing it automatically and i cant remove them :/</p>

[bladecast]

<p>Solved this problem.</p><p> Had to turn off UAC in vista.</p><p>At least the launchpad works now...... for how long, and if the game will patch up to latest is content for another post maybe!?</p><p>SOE needs to resolve Vista issues ASAP! I might be willing to turn off UAC and fiddle with compatibility options, but there are lots that simply wont tolerate an application not working correctly.</p>

[Illyakuran]

<p>I think it's more of a Vista problem than a SOE problem.</p><p>Vista views the patching as bad since it is modifying a file in the Programs directory and kills the download. It should prompt you asking if you are really sure you want to do that like it does for most things if UAC is turned on.</p><p>Otherwise EQ2 runs fine on my Vista machine once I turned off UAC. Ok, it runs as well as anything else does in Vista.</p>

[Hexen575]

If you don't what to turn off the UAC(and who wouldn't?), you can also turn on Admin Rights(as you did) and then set it to XP SP2 compatability mode. This is how I got it to work in the beginning(I wanted the UAC on at frist, now I disspise it).

[bladecast]

<cite>Hexen575 wrote:</cite><blockquote>If you don't what to turn off the UAC(and who wouldn't?), you can also turn on Admin Rights(as you did) and then set it to XP SP2 compatability mode. This is how I got it to work in the beginning(I wanted the UAC on at frist, now I disspise it).</blockquote>I tried both of those things, they didnt work. the only thing that did work for me was disabling UAC.What i dont understand is why Vanguard works perfectly with no need for anything altered at all.

[willnotuse]

<cite>bladecaster wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Hexen575 wrote:</cite><blockquote>If you don't what to turn off the UAC(and who wouldn't?), you can also turn on Admin Rights(as you did) and then set it to XP SP2 compatability mode. This is how I got it to work in the beginning(I wanted the UAC on at frist, now I disspise it).</blockquote>I tried both of those things, they didnt work. the only thing that did work for me was disabling UAC.What i dont understand is why Vanguard works perfectly with no need for anything altered at all.</blockquote>Vanguard is a much newer game.  Written during the time that they would have had access to pre-release and beta versions of Vista.  EverQuest II had no such advantage.Another option you have is to install EverQuest II into something other than it's default install directory.  For example: "C:gameseverquest II" or "D:SonyEverquest II"

[Wingrider01]

<cite>willnotuse wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>bladecaster wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Hexen575 wrote:</cite><blockquote>If you don't what to turn off the UAC(and who wouldn't?), you can also turn on Admin Rights(as you did) and then set it to XP SP2 compatability mode. This is how I got it to work in the beginning(I wanted the UAC on at frist, now I disspise it).</blockquote>I tried both of those things, they didnt work. the only thing that did work for me was disabling UAC.What i dont understand is why Vanguard works perfectly with no need for anything altered at all.</blockquote>Vanguard is a much newer game.  Written during the time that they would have had access to pre-release and beta versions of Vista.  EverQuest II had no such advantage.Another option you have is to install EverQuest II into something other than it's default install directory.  For example: "C:gameseverquest II" or "D:SonyEverquest II"</blockquote>it still uses the same patcher though, all the SOE games utilize the same pather with the exception of Matrix Online

[bladecast]

<cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>willnotuse wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>bladecaster wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Hexen575 wrote:</cite><blockquote>If you don't what to turn off the UAC(and who wouldn't?), you can also turn on Admin Rights(as you did) and then set it to XP SP2 compatability mode. This is how I got it to work in the beginning(I wanted the UAC on at frist, now I disspise it).</blockquote>I tried both of those things, they didnt work. the only thing that did work for me was disabling UAC.What i dont understand is why Vanguard works perfectly with no need for anything altered at all.</blockquote>Vanguard is a much newer game.  Written during the time that they would have had access to pre-release and beta versions of Vista.  EverQuest II had no such advantage.Another option you have is to install EverQuest II into something other than it's default install directory.  For example: "C:gameseverquest II" or "D:SonyEverquest II"</blockquote>it still uses the same patcher though, all the SOE games utilize the same pather with the exception of Matrix Online</blockquote><p>Exactly, its the patcher that crashes or did at least before disabling UAC, which is bizarre when it works with SWG, Vanguard etc without needing UAC disabling and all the other tweaks.</p>

[Magustian]

Personally I give up. Iv tried for 2 days, got no tech help from Sony and iv had this problem all 4 times iv played this game. Im done with SoE. Maybe in the past it was worth my time to monkey around with their games(just to find out that the games were still unbalanced and crap), but now we have WoW, City of Heroes, DAoC and so many other options with Tabula Rasa, Conan etc etc all on the way. Its just not worth it with so many options to waste my time on a game that even the developers refuse to support.