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Rampage

12-07-2011, 06:13 PM

I've been subbed to EQ2 before, and I THOUGHT the conversion to free-to-play was supposed to go smoothly. I just now started up EQ2, and after doing that scanning and replicating thing, it opened up this new gheylooking launcher. I mean if minimalist is your thing, cool, but I happen to hate it. Mostly I couldn't care less though, because normally I figure I'll only have to look at it's ugliness for a min before I can play the game. Except... I've just spent 10 minutes tring to find the 'play' button. I see two games that try to install themselves when I click em, but Everquest 2 listed anywhere. Used to be I could launch the game directly by clicking it and that worked just fine (and was easier on my eyes). What's wrong SOE, ever hear of the phrase, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"?

Ahlana

12-07-2011, 06:28 PM

<cite>Rampage wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've been subbed to EQ2 before, and I THOUGHT the conversion to free-to-play was supposed to go smoothly. I just now started up EQ2, and after doing that scanning and replicating thing, it opened up this new gheylooking launcher. I mean if minimalist is your thing, cool, but I happen to hate it. Mostly I couldn't care less though, because normally I figure I'll only have to look at it's ugliness for a min before I can play the game. Except... I've just spent 10 minutes tring to find the 'play' button. I see two games that try to install themselves when I click em, but Everquest 2 listed anywhere. Used to be I could launch the game directly by clicking it and that worked just fine (and was easier on my eyes). What's wrong SOE, ever hear of the phrase, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"?</blockquote> there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)

Nrgy

12-07-2011, 06:33 PM

<cite>Ahlana wrote:</cite><blockquote>there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)</blockquote>The Pointing part is, IMO, the most important part. If you have EQ2 installed and do not point it to the correct directory, it WILL reinstall the full game including all 14+ gig of downloads.I did not have to restart my machine, but I DID have to run the launcher as administrator.

Ahlana

12-07-2011, 06:35 PM

<cite>Nrgy wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Ahlana wrote:</cite><blockquote>there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)</blockquote>The Pointing part is, IMO, the most important part. If you have EQ2 installed and do not point it to the correct directory, it WILL reinstall the full game including all 14+ gig of downloads.I did not have to restart my machine, but I DID have to run the launcher as administrator.</blockquote>My wife had to restart her machine.. as she uses EQ2 so much the old launcher was cached and each time she fired up the LP4 it would still start that tiny blue one.Installing and then restarting cleared the cache for her and problem solved. Besides it wouldn't hurt if nothing else.

Rampage

12-07-2011, 06:50 PM

<cite>Ahlana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Rampage wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've been subbed to EQ2 before, and I THOUGHT the conversion to free-to-play was supposed to go smoothly. I just now started up EQ2, and after doing that scanning and replicating thing, it opened up this new gheylooking launcher. I mean if minimalist is your thing, cool, but I happen to hate it. Mostly I couldn't care less though, because normally I figure I'll only have to look at it's ugliness for a min before I can play the game. Except... I've just spent 10 minutes tring to find the 'play' button. I see two games that try to install themselves when I click em, but Everquest 2 listed anywhere. Used to be I could launch the game directly by clicking it and that worked just fine (and was easier on my eyes). What's wrong SOE, ever hear of the phrase, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"?</blockquote> there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)</blockquote>Thanks for the reply.This *kind of* worked. I installed in my EQ2 directory, and restart, and the launcher is no longer that hideous blue stopwatch-looking thing, however it's not downloading/updating nor is there a 'play' button.Edit: Does it matter that my EQ2 install is not on C Drive? Currently have it partitioned and using D drive for all games.

BowB4Me

12-07-2011, 06:52 PM

<cite>Ahlana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Rampage wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've been subbed to EQ2 before, and I THOUGHT the conversion to free-to-play was supposed to go smoothly. I just now started up EQ2, and after doing that scanning and replicating thing, it opened up this new gheylooking launcher. I mean if minimalist is your thing, cool, but I happen to hate it. Mostly I couldn't care less though, because normally I figure I'll only have to look at it's ugliness for a min before I can play the game. Except... I've just spent 10 minutes tring to find the 'play' button. I see two games that try to install themselves when I click em, but Everquest 2 listed anywhere. Used to be I could launch the game directly by clicking it and that worked just fine (and was easier on my eyes). What's wrong SOE, ever hear of the phrase, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"?</blockquote> there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)</blockquote>How??? THe pointing bit not the restarting <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Rampage

12-07-2011, 06:55 PM

<cite>BowB4Me wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Ahlana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Rampage wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've been subbed to EQ2 before, and I THOUGHT the conversion to free-to-play was supposed to go smoothly. I just now started up EQ2, and after doing that scanning and replicating thing, it opened up this new gheylooking launcher. I mean if minimalist is your thing, cool, but I happen to hate it. Mostly I couldn't care less though, because normally I figure I'll only have to look at it's ugliness for a min before I can play the game. Except... I've just spent 10 minutes tring to find the 'play' button. I see two games that try to install themselves when I click em, but Everquest 2 listed anywhere. Used to be I could launch the game directly by clicking it and that worked just fine (and was easier on my eyes). What's wrong SOE, ever hear of the phrase, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"?</blockquote> there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)</blockquote>How??? THe pointing bit not the restarting <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Hit install, then the "..." to choose location.

Nrgy

12-07-2011, 07:16 PM

<cite>BowB4Me wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Ahlana wrote:</cite><blockquote>there is a bug and the game downloading the wrong launcherDOwnload and install this <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD Launchpad 4 Full Download</a>While pointing it to your current install location.. Then restart your computer (the last part is important)</blockquote>How??? THe pointing bit not the restarting <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>When you download the launcher .. and run it .. it will ask if you want to (full install, Repair, Uninstall) if you have EQ2 installed already then choose Full Install and point to where you have it installed already. You need to click down to and including the actuall Everquest II directory. At which point the installer will see the Everquest II files and "Verify" them and upgrade (patch) the ones it needs to. Otherwise, it will attempt to install an entire fressh full load.Restarting never hurt anything, especially in windows environments, but certainly could hurt if not done. Always restart at least twice before calling customer service. Its the first thing they will ask you to do anyway :/

fricky101

12-08-2011, 02:53 AM

I managed to get game to run and update yesterday. every time i turned PC off i had to run through the install when i started pc up again.Thought i would try the install link above, i know what location game is in. Its now showing updating over 2000 files and shows i need 13,125 mb. I checked open game directory and its correct.I hope it just updates a few files and then zooms through rest. Im on a very slow net and so far only installed 24mb which is 0.2% lol.At min creating music/combat files. hope these are new since yesterday.