New guy needs some help fastFollow

Ok i just got EQ2. I installed it and went to start it. I first downloaded some updates and it takes me to a screen. The manual says to click the creat character button located in the lower right hand corner however i can't find a button that says that anyplace on the screen. I tryed going into preferences and changing it to play while downloading but it doesnt do anything. Can someone please help me? how hard should this be?

Yes. I installed the game, clicked on the icon(it downloaded for about an hour), it takes me to a screen that has several options (Preferences, my accounts, chat, ect). I don't see a play button or a creat character button. It does have a character select unavailabl button ( Cus i don't have a character yet). I checked the paper that was with the game. It says after you start the game to just creat a charater and your off and running. I just don't get this. I will try other forums. The official one i registered for and can log in but when i try and post it tells me im not even thoe im logged in. It's just been a bad day so far. Thank you for the post. Can anyone help??

Yes it does. It is updating..it says the estimated time is 376 hours 30 some minutes. That can't be right can it??? I have dial up but that is 15 days of downloading. I set the pref button to play while downloading. does that do anything?

Thank you bodhisattva,

The time keeps going down fast it was 380hrs then down to 250hrs and now shows 57hrs. i hope it keeps this up. Thanks again for all your help.

Gerry53

yeah that timer for the download is always off. With dial up it will take a long time, but it's a once only time you have to deal with it. Welcome to Norrath.

Thank you all- I'm still sitting at 55 1/2 hrs to go. I have one big problem and that is my computer will reconnect on disconnects but the EQ2 downloader needs to be restarted when i disconnect. If i download tonight while i sleep and it disconnects on me ill loss all that download time. I guess ill just have to stay awake for the next 55 1/2 hours...lol wish me luck.

Gerry53

Making coffee now. T- 52hrs 18 min left.

wow trying to download it on dial up lol i could never do that due to the fact that im used to dsl/cable :P good luck and hope it installs correctly lol

thanks telilfalconeye for the info. I have been downloading now for about 17 1/2 hours and the progress bar shows i'm at around 52% done. I had to sleep next to the computer over night to start the download program. The puter disconnected three times. I just set volume all the way up so when it dised it woke me up. I got up at around 3am to see that the est-time was around 34 hours from the 49 i started with at 11pm. I was very happy to see 15 hours gone in a 4 hour spand. then i got up at 8am to see the dang thing went back up to 42 hours.

I will re-boot and see if that speeds things up a bit.

gerry53