Question - Help Getting Started (1 Viewer)

[Bosko]

I apologize in advance for being a noob. Ive been searching old forums for hours trying to get a basic learners guide to using macroquest, to see what ive done wrong.I however cant figure out how to get it started. Ive unzipped it into a folder, and run the program. its currently active on my minitaskbar. so i know its working. However, when mq2 is running, i cannot normally open my everquest game. i have to run the launcher as the administrator. When i log into EQ, i have no MQ2 window with which to interact with. its as if im logging in normally.
What am i doing wrong?

 

[Maskoi]

Hi,
It is a little confusing. SOE added some spyware to detect MQ2 in the launcher so MQ2 does not let it run. You need fully patch EQ then set it up to bypass the launcher.

Using Patchme command to bypass the SOE Launcher

1. Use the Launcher to make sure your EverQuest is fully Patched.
2. Shut down EQ and the Launcher.
3. Create a shortcut of your eqgame.exe from your EverQuest folder. Right click on your eqgame.exe and Select Send To > Desktop (create shortcut)
4. Right click the shortcut and select properties
5. In the Target window type patchme. 1 space, 1 word after the eqgame.exe" (See Example 1)
6. Hit Apply the OK

Example 1



If your EverQuest folder was located in Program Files it would look like this

"C:\Program Files\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme

Example of goldmund's post to login into a specific account IE bob

"C:\Program Files\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme  /login:bob

Hope that clears things up for you

 

[Bosko]

wow. i didnt expect to get help anywhere near that quickly. you guys are on the ball. A+ worth the 6 bucks a month.

 

[Bosko]

totally worked too. first try. kudos

 

[Maskoi]

I should have written this guide a few months ago. I started but left it. I am finishing it up for our help section. Thanks for the kick in the butt to get it done.

 

[Bosko]

Pardon my imposition. I was attempting to set up mq2 on my Laptop so it could share some of the burden of boxing. I followed the same instructions, patched eq fully, used the same eqgame.exe shortcut, added in patchme. Every time i click on the shortcut it says "Run Everquest.exe" it would seem the shortcut should be exactly the same as the other one i made.. but this one isnt working. any idea why? or should i just wipe it and retry

 

[Maskoi]

What version of windows?

 

[Bosko]

using windows 7 on the laptop

 

[Joedungca]

there are 2 different ways as to use patchme depending on what win 7 u got "WIND BLAH BAL patchme" and win7 "Patchme" try changing it up