Game closes with no error when dual-boxing

[Lisail]

<p>Title says it all; I have two accounts that I run on occasion and I cannot dual box since reinstalling EQ last month.  I have the new patcher, and installed the game to my Asus via a link at everquest2.com - so I assume I have the streaming version?  I'm not entirely sure however, I can't seem to find any option for a full download, or anything that says it is streaming; it just says its up to date.</p><p>Here's how it goes:</p><p>I open the launcher, launch the first game, load into the character, minimize, switch the account via the launcher, load the second game, load in the character, and all seems fine for about two minutes;</p><p>Then, if I try to zone, or if I hit the 2 minute mark before I try to zone, one of the games closes without so much as an error or anything.  Just poof, gone, like it wasn't even open.</p><p>I've also tried loading game 1, minimize, close launcher, start new launcher, load game 2, and get the same problem.</p><p>How do I successfully dual-box?  Didn't have this problem before, but then again previously we had the old launcher.</p>

[Felshades]

<p>Guildie has this same issue. It's happened a couple of times to me too. I zone, and it tries to log me in to the game server but its using cached data from the wrong account. Says login failed boots me out.</p>

[Frankinfooter]

<p>I'm having the same issue and it looks like the new launcher keeps the username in a file which is used during the next zone.  I've copyed the entire EQ2 install to a new location and this seems to keep this from happening but alot of the time I forget since we have been able to use the same install director for so long and it happen all the time.</p><p>Can we please get someone at SOE to check this out and provide a solution?</p><p>Tarkin</p>

[Felshades]

<p>It only happens to me occasionally. I havent figured out what triggers it either. *Usually* the account I log in first zones first, but sometimes they zone seperately to different zones, such as at the end of the session when I Odessey myself on the Inquisitor, and call to guild hall on the Berserker(I lag less in Neriak than I do having two characters in a T2 hall with like 900 items).</p><p>I found I don't outright disconnect randomly outside zoning if I tab between the two clients occasionally, but the D/C on zoning is kind of annoying.</p><p>I honestly can't even see why they would need to verify login information upon zoning. Just seems to be an unnecessary pain in the rear.</p>

[Banedon_Toran]

<cite>Felshades wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I honestly can't even see why they would need to verify login information upon zoning. Just seems to be an unnecessary pain in the rear.</p></blockquote> When zoning you are actually being passed from server to server, what we think of as being a 'server' e.g. Antonia Bayle would be better called a 'game world', since game worlds are actually a collection of real physical servers over which all the zones are split and additional physical servers which collectively hold all the 'instances' (instanced dungeons, homes, guild halls) sometimes for more than one 'game world'. So when you zone you are actually being logged out of one physical server and logged back into another. As regards dual-boxing issues, I only experience an issue when the launchpad decides to disappear after several minutes at which point I have to run the EverQuest2.exe file in order to load up additional accounts. Re-running the launchpad and logging into an account will cause any existing running accounts to close.

[Frankinfooter]

<p>Well maybe that is my issue I just use the same launcher and switch accounts and hit play.  The launcher should not be connected to the eq2 application in any way.  I'll try and run two version of the memory leeking launcher and see what happens.</p><p>I would rather not have two eq2 directories on my HD that need to be updated.</p><p>Tarkin</p>

[Banedon_Toran]

<cite>Frankinfooter wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Well maybe that is my issue I just use the same launcher and switch accounts and hit play.  The launcher should not be connected to the eq2 application in any way.  I'll try and run two version of the memory leeking launcher and see what happens.</p><p>I would rather not have two eq2 directories on my HD that need to be updated.</p><p>Tarkin</p></blockquote> No, no, that's what you want to avoid. Run the launcher, start as many accounts as you want BUT as soon as the launchpad does it's annoying thing of 'disappearing' you need to avoid running the launcher again and just run the main game app direct. Apparently there are some data files that the multiple eq2's have to share, when you re-run the launchpad it re-clears these files.

[Sleap]

<p>I have the same issue, but doesn't happen nearly as often as it does to you. I seem to have more issues 2 boxing with the new launchpad than i did with the Station Launcher. On a diff note, can we please get actual update notes on the new launcher and a list of our characters so we can log directly to them instead of going to character select first?</p>

[Frankinfooter]

<p>Please enlight me on how to run the application without running the launcher.  Seems like we need someone from SoE to fix this issue as it never been a problem in the passed.</p><p>Tarkin</p>

[Lisail]

<p>I still haven't found a solution to this.  It's frequent and it's a real PITA, I can't successfully run two accounts at all without constantly logging them back in.</p><p>I really don't want to have to make a copy of the EQ2 directory just to dual-box.  That is what you said you did that worked, right?  I'm not a very tech savvy person, so.. All I'd have to do if I did choose to try to use that method as a workaround is copy the entire EQ2 game folder and move it to another spot, so that there are two of them?  Then use the launcher from EQ2 game folder #1, then EQ2 game folder #2?</p><p>And I agree - would be nice to see our characters on the launcher again and be able to go straight into the game instead of character select.</p><p>Any other ideas on how I can dual-box without crashing all the time?  Remember I'm not very technical, so you'll have to explain what to do if it involves moving any folders or changing any files.  <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Lisail]

<p><cite>Banedon_Toran wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>As regards dual-boxing issues, I only experience an issue when the launchpad decides to disappear after several minutes at which point I have to run the EverQuest2.exe file in order to load up additional accounts. Re-running the launchpad and logging into an account will cause any existing running accounts to close. </blockquote><p>Thought I would also add I have *not* experienced this, luckily.  Maybe that's because my games refuse to stay open long enough for me to give the launchpad time to dissapear.  <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Question, though - How do you run the client from the folder?  EverQuest2.exe, I mean.  I tried that as a workaround the other day and it just gave me some error saying I had to run the game from the launcpad.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>As long as you are fully patched you can bypass the LaunchPad by running the Everquest2.exe file directly.  Due to differing installation paths in the past, be absolutely certain you are in the right folder.  The best way to do this is to right-click the EQII game icon you use to access the game and select Open File Location (XP users will need to hit Properties first, then Open File Location from the Properties window).</p><p>This will not work for our players using the Streaming LaunchPad if it is still pre-loading the game assets.</p><p>As an aside, still gettin back in to workmode (been on vacation!) so if I missed any outstanding questions please remind me! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Felshades]

<p><cite>Banedon_Toran wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><cite>Frankinfooter wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Well maybe that is my issue I just use the same launcher and switch accounts and hit play.  The launcher should not be connected to the eq2 application in any way.  I'll try and run two version of the memory leeking launcher and see what happens.</p><p>I would rather not have two eq2 directories on my HD that need to be updated.</p><p>Tarkin</p></blockquote> No, no, that's what you want to avoid. Run the launcher, start as many accounts as you want BUT as soon as the launchpad does it's annoying thing of 'disappearing' you need to avoid running the launcher again and just run the main game app direct. Apparently there are some data files that the multiple eq2's have to share, when you re-run the launchpad it re-clears these files.</blockquote><p>I open the launcher, log one account in, then switch, log the other in, then close it.</p><p>Ive never once had my launchpad "disappear" without me closing it.</p>

[Lisail]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>As long as you are fully patched you can bypass the LaunchPad by running the Everquest2.exe file directly.  Due to differing installation paths in the past, be absolutely certain you are in the right folder.  The best way to do this is to right-click the EQII game icon you use to access the game and select Open File Location (XP users will need to hit Properties first, then Open File Location from the Properties window).</p><p>This will not work for our players using the Streaming LaunchPad if it is still pre-loading the game assets.</p><p>As an aside, still gettin back in to workmode (been on vacation!) so if I missed any outstanding questions please remind me! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Welcome back (:.  My question still remains, however; what am I doing wrong, or how do I prevent my game from closing without an error when I run two of them?</p><p>I tried doing the whole "bypass the launchpad" thing and I get a popup error that says, "Everquest II has detected an unrecoverable error and must shut down.  <verify> G:liveeq2gameClientsrcClientApp.cpp (4055):  No game assets found.  Please launch the game from the patcher.  00418985 01084c1c."  This leads me to the next question:  Am I not fully patched?  Or still streaming or something?  (Excuse me for not being tech savvy, I'm sorry if my question makes no sense, haha).  I made absolutely certain I was in the right folder and did what you said by right-clicking the EQII game icon and opening file location, then selected Everquest2.exe and got the error.</p><p>To reiterate: 1).  Bypass doesn't work for me: why?  Is there something I need to do to ensure I am downlaoded fully and stop the error given when I try to launch everquest2.exe?</p><p>2).  If not the above, then will copying the entire folder and making another directory, and then launching from either directory seperately work and prevent one of my two running accounts from crashing?</p><p>I'd really rather be able to just do like other people and run the launcher, launch a game, switch accounts on the same launcher after I've loaded game #1, switch to acct. #2, and then launch it.  However as I said I crash minutes after loading up the second game when I do it this way, and cannot seem to load game #2 by bypassing the launchpad.</p><p>Last little note; I run windows 7.  Not sure if that makes a difference with anything or not.</p>

[Lisail]

<p>Still having this problem.  Can't dual box at all, which makes my second account useless almost.  Any additional help?  The post just above has my questions/comments.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p>Multibox with little problems, but then I have a seperate install directroy and launchpad for each instance</p><p>d:soeeq2eq2_1</p><p>d:soeeq2eq2_2</p><p>d:soeeq2eq2_3</p><p>each directroy has it's own install of launchpad</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Creating a 2nd folder may help alleviate the issue but I personally 5 box with a single installation without issues so it doesn't address what may be causing the problem to begin with.   Many people have no issues multiboxing either way, single install or multiple.</p><p>We're still working on trying to reproduce many of these behaviors but if time allows multiple installs won't hurt it any.</p>