trouble with patcher

[HwnElf]

<p>After patching, the 'PLAY' button doesn't appear.  It stays as 'UPDATING' with the clickable 'Download' button below it.  Have clicked on the 'Download' button many times and and it shows 'Update Complete' each time, yet the 'UPDATING' button remains grey and it doesn't change to the 'PLAY' button.  The game was working fine the last time I logged in, which was a couple of days ago.  I am also running Windows XP Pro.  The patcher keeps downloading 'vivoxsdk.dll'.</p>

[TSR-TrevorG]

Locate that vivoxsdk.dll file under the main Everquest 2 folder, delete it and then try repatching.

[HealerMathi]

Same issue here....Beta patcher replied with something along the lines of:"The was a problem moving C:Program Filessonyeverquest IIUIfontszcal801b.ttf.fotplease try again and contact SOE is the problem persists blah blah"I located the file and when I tried to remove it, it simply told me the file is corrupted or unreadable and cannot be deleted.------------------------------------- Following up - Used <a href="http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unlocker</a> and had the files deleted upon reboot...rebooted and ran the patcher and I'm able to play now

[TheSpike2]

<p>I see a file called "lp_tmp_vivoxsdk.dll.4cd2a0_a3e8e91d.tmp" - that's the only thing containing "vivoxsdk.dll".  Deleting it doesn't help.  The system just keeps trying to download it, and appears not to succeed.</p>

[Balerius]

<cite>TheSpike2 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I see a file called "lp_tmp_vivoxsdk.dll.4cd2a0_a3e8e91d.tmp" - that's the only thing containing "vivoxsdk.dll".  Deleting it doesn't help.  The system just keeps trying to download it, and appears not to succeed.</p></blockquote><p>I had this identical same problem.  Here's the solution:</p><p>1) Delete the temp vivoxsdk file.</p><p>2) Open the file EverQuest2Patch.log (in main Everquest II directory) using Notepad.  From the edit menu "Find" using the search word "failed".  You will discover a line that reads something like: [22:50:13] Patcher: DownloadFileEx failed (41) on url=http://laeaberrpatch.everquest2.com:7010/patch/eq2/en/patch0/main/vivoxsdk.dll.gz</p><p>3) Copy the url noted above beginning with http.  Paste the url into your web browser and hit go.  You will be directed to the EQ2 fileserver and you will be prompted to save the file.  Save it somewhere on your computer (e.g, desktop).  The file is compressed; I used winrar to unzip it.  Save the unzipped file to your Everquest II main directory.</p><p>4) Restart EQ2 from the patcher.  Now the patch process won't hang on downloading vivixsdk.dll.  But it <b><i>will</i></b> hang on another file.  In fact, it will hang 4 more times on 3 or 4 separate files.  But that's OK.  You repeat steps 1-4 for each of those 3 or 4 files <i>one file at a time</i>.  (In other words, open EverQuest2Patch.log find the failed file url, download the file, unzip the file to the EQ2 directory, rerun patcher until it hangs again, reopen EverQuest2Patch.log, find the failed file url...rinse and repeat).  As I said, you only have to do this 3 or 4 more times: I think the last of the files that you have to do this for is called wrap_oal.dll.gz.</p><p>5)  After you've done the process above for the last of the problematic files, and you restart the EQ2 patcher process, the update process will continue as normal and finish normally with the "Play" button.</p>

[HwnElf]

<p>Downloaded the 'Station Launcher Beta' and tried using that.  After a couple retries for failed files, the download was finally complete and I am playing EQ2 as I write this....WOOT!</p><p>Thanks for all the suggestions and I hope this info helps others with the same problem.</p>