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Help! Vista will not let me install eq2Follow
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Having major issues trying to download game keeps going back to same files if anyone can help me im me at mar_beth@live.com
Try stopping and restarting the patcher/launcher. Then it will pick up where it left off. If that doesn't work, stop the patching process, go to your SOE/EverQuest2/ directory and find the file its stuck on. Delete it and restart the patcher.
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Also make sure that you're running the installer/launcher "As Administrator".
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Edited, Apr 26th 2009 12:21pm by kynalynn
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Edited, Apr 26th 2009 12:21pm by kynalynn
If none of this helps, try turning off any 3rd party virus protection software and firewalls such as Internet Security Prison or McAfee Security Asylum temporarily during the patching process. Still having issues, plug your computer directly in to your cable or dsl modem and by pass any router you might have setup.
Having been one of those suckers that has used Vista before I can tell you what the problem is.
You need to right click on the launch icon and select run as admin.
That is one of the reasons I went back to windows XP
I go tired of having to go threw an extra step or more to get games installed and launched
You need to right click on the launch icon and select run as admin.
That is one of the reasons I went back to windows XP
I go tired of having to go threw an extra step or more to get games installed and launched
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update!!!!
been at this over a hour so far most of my files are showing up, but still have long way to go says 26 minutes left but according to patch notes missing many files.
been at this over a hour so far most of my files are showing up, but still have long way to go says 26 minutes left but according to patch notes missing many files.
Keep at it, some of the patches are going to be going back to previous files and updating them as you progress, also what you may thing are the same files my just have the same starting information with different info being shown thats to long to be seen in the area that it displays in.
Even if your installing from the newests box set you are still going to have a lot of patche data and update data to install.
A suggestion, make sure to run a full file scan after you finish installing just to make sure that everyting is set up right. It will take a little more time but may just catch any problems in your install.
And please, reboot when all is said and done.
Its just good policy to do so after a massive install, cleans out the no longer needed temp information in your ram and will make it play a little smother on that system hog vista
Even if your installing from the newests box set you are still going to have a lot of patche data and update data to install.
A suggestion, make sure to run a full file scan after you finish installing just to make sure that everyting is set up right. It will take a little more time but may just catch any problems in your install.
And please, reboot when all is said and done.
Its just good policy to do so after a massive install, cleans out the no longer needed temp information in your ram and will make it play a little smother on that system hog vista
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Instead of having to right click and choose "Run as Admin", you can go into the properties of the file you are using, and go to the compatibility tab. Near the bottom you will find a check box to always run the file as an administrator. EQ2 does require to be ran as an adminstrator for it to properly update any and all files. Just another step backwards in the so-called progress of things.
After advice I got on this site, I just went and switched off the UAC part of Vista. I no longer bother with the whole administrator thing at all, it made life a lot easier. (Vista actually blocked EQII for about two weeks before I got that fixed)
You can find it under configuration screen, then User Accounts icon. It should give an option to turn the UAC on or off.
You can find it under configuration screen, then User Accounts icon. It should give an option to turn the UAC on or off.
I find disabling UAC helps significantly too.
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I agree. UAC is a good idea, taken to extremes.
Should have been called Universally Annoying Content.
Should have been called Universally Annoying Content.
Zieveraar wrote:
After advice I got on this site, I just went and switched off the UAC part of Vista. I no longer bother with the whole administrator thing at all, it made life a lot easier. (Vista actually blocked EQII for about two weeks before I got that fixed)
You can find it under configuration screen, then User Accounts icon. It should give an option to turn the UAC on or off.
You can find it under configuration screen, then User Accounts icon. It should give an option to turn the UAC on or off.
I agree, when I got my new pc with Vista, it was Long after I had Eq2 installed that I found out how to turn off UAC. For some reason even right clicking "run as admin" never seemed to work past the patching. I'm pretty sure I didnt even have a launch button.
UAC is the devil.
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
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It is reasons like this that I went back to Windows XP after using vista for a while
Just isnt gamer freindly in my opinion, to many built in apps that have no real use that choke up system resorces and to much hardware it wont work with
Just isnt gamer freindly in my opinion, to many built in apps that have no real use that choke up system resorces and to much hardware it wont work with
Switch off UAC, set the launcher to run as Administrator, and my new Vista x64 system runs fine.
it's a shame that the UAC hasn't got an option to remember that you are OK with certain apps running, especially after you've just double-clicked an icon to make it run. Windows 7 should be better apparently... (late summer/early autumn release?)
it's a shame that the UAC hasn't got an option to remember that you are OK with certain apps running, especially after you've just double-clicked an icon to make it run. Windows 7 should be better apparently... (late summer/early autumn release?)
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