World Not Found - March 1, 2009

[Siskiyou]

<p>OK, it is approaching 3am on Sunday, March 1st and it says Venekor is not found. Chose the character select screen one time and it asked me to make a new character!!!! (none of my current are listed) Network status reports no problems...</p><p>HELLO, IS ANYONE THERE?</p><p>I'm sure there are a couple folks beside myself who are more than a little concerned...</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Siskiyou@Venekor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>OK, it is approaching 3am on Sunday, March 1st and it says Venekor is not found. Chose the character select screen one time and it asked me to make a new character!!!! (none of my current are listed) Network status reports no problems...</p><p>HELLO, IS ANYONE THERE?</p><p>I'm sure there are a couple folks beside myself who are more than a little concerned...</p></blockquote><p>Curious - are you selecting form the drop down bar on the launcheer or are you selecting PLAY?</p>

[Siskiyou]

<p>Selelcting from drop down - tried several different characters.  Goes into loading then get little window (the one that usually says 'log in server #1 or whatever) flashes really quick with "Venekor not found" then hangs at the usual message of loggin server # but it never get's past #1</p><p>if I select no character from the drop down, that part that usually takes you to the character select/creation screen it shows no characters and asks if I want to make one</p><p>If I go in through the "back door" (ie. using the Everquest2 application) I get the same results.</p><p>I've been using the same program for months, it has not been moved and the only updates have been Sony's.  If there are no other problems, then I will do a file repair (should have done that before posting this - sorry)</p>

[Siskiyou]

<p>OK, ran file check - same problem</p><p>Reboot machine and tried again - same problem</p><p>You are telling me that nobody else on Venekor is having this problem?</p><p>Sigh</p><p>So what do I do?</p>

[Siskiyou]

<p>OK, went through my eq2 directory and tried all the applications - for some reason the EQ2 application worked this time (as opposed to the "Play the Fay" one which was older. It is kinda odd, as they both use the other files, and I did try the Everquest2 application on it's own as well (which normally will work too)</p><p>Wish I could figure out why silling Vista will allow me to put "run as administrator" on all the applications except EQ2.exe... if I rename it to something like EQ22.exe then I can - perhaps they have something against the name or the number of letters in the name?</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Siskiyou@Venekor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>OK, went through my eq2 directory and tried all the applications - for some reason the EQ2 application worked this time (as opposed to the "Play the Fay" one which was older. It is kinda odd, as they both use the other files, and I did try the Everquest2 application on it's own as well (which normally will work too)</p><p>Wish I could figure out why silling Vista will allow me to put "run as administrator" on all the applications except EQ2.exe... if I rename it to something like EQ22.exe then I can - perhaps they have something against the name or the number of letters in the name?</p></blockquote><p>It sounds like a firewall is blocking the game file, then.  Open up the exception list for your firewall and remove Everquest2.exe and EQ2.exe from the list.  The next time you start the game it will give you the 'allow or deny' message.  Select allow and that should let you start the game.</p>