Patcher updated L1 to the ancient Station LaunchPad :(

[Te'ana]

<p>I was hoping for something better, like the newest launcher <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>It appears I can play Infantry and Cosmic Rift, and get a refund for something or another. ROFLOL</p><p>And to add to the confusion, the EQ2X launcher seems fine, although it downloaded 40.1 MB of something.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Lateana@The Bazaar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I was hoping for something better, like the newest launcher <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>It appears I can play Infantry and Cosmic Rift, and get a refund for something or another. ROFLOL</p><p>And to add to the confusion, the EQ2X launcher seems fine, although it downloaded 40.1 MB of something.</p></blockquote><p>Download our latest LaunchPad here, <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=509747">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=509747</a></p><p>Get the Full assets install and direct it to Install a New Copy over your existing EQII folder.</p>

[Te'ana]

<p>KK, have done so and it seems to work. Now the EQ2X stuff dissappeared, but that is fine I guess. Now I just need to see all my character slots. It looks like I lost five of them and I didn't even have a toon on EQ2X <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  If they are not back by the time I get home from giving a final tonight I will petition it.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Lateana@The Bazaar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>KK, have done so and it seems to work. Now the EQ2X stuff dissappeared, but that is fine I guess. Now I just need to see all my character slots. It looks like I lost five of them and I didn't even have a toon on EQ2X <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" />  If they are not back by the time I get home from giving a final tonight I will petition it.</p></blockquote><p>I'll be here all night so you may as well just PM me as our GM's wont be able to address the issue, just the tech/billing department <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Silresa2]

<p>Go into your add/remove programs (or just 'Programs' if you're on Vista/7) and you should be able to find Station Launcher or Station LaunchPad or similar there.</p><p>When I FIRST updated to the new launcher, it launched the really old launchpad launcher that is hugely out of date and has the old games. I deleted the files but it still did. I then removed both entries from my program list and then it worked fine - maybe try that.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Silresa2 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Go into your add/remove programs (or just 'Programs' if you're on Vista/7) and you should be able to find Station Launcher or Station LaunchPad or similar there.</p><p>When I FIRST updated to the new launcher, it launched the really old launchpad launcher that is hugely out of date and has the old games. I deleted the files but it still did. I then removed both entries from my program list and then it worked fine - maybe try that.</p></blockquote><p>Sounds like a shortcut issue more than anything but I'm trying to reproduce.</p>

[Silresa2]

<p>I thought the same, but strangely I had literally deleted both Station Launcher and Launchpad directories. When I launched the 'launchpad' from within the EQ2 directory that the installer-created shortcut made it launched the old launchpad.. It wasn't until I uninstalled both that it cleaned itself up.</p><p>It was weird for sure, just throwing it out there in case others have old stuff lying around causing weird problems like I did. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>   </p>

[beasteven2]

<p>i just have to say, needing to re-run the game installer just to get the updatd launcher to work seems rediculous.  a new launcher should not have caused this much confusion/frustration.  4 hours later, still waiting ot hear from 'live chat' i think i have it resolved - at least i have the new launcher 'downloading'</p>

[Therendil]

<p>Cleaning out old stuff is essential to avoid high weirdness. This is especially true with shortcuts. This is one reason I run the registry repair tool in CCleaner - it finds broken and orphan shortcuts, as well as leftover registry entries that point nowhere.</p><p>TSR has also posted good advice about doing global searches of hard drives to find and remove odd EQ bits you didn't realize you had. It is especially important to find and nuke eq2.exe everywhere. Trying to launch with that is almost certain to bring the 'wristwatch' back from the dead.</p>