Maybe it is just me but is anyone else in a patch loop with the latest version of EQPlayNice?
Could you look into this when you get a minute Lax? Had to end process the patcher.
Thanks.
HanzO
EQPlayNice sits in a patch cycle
Moderator: Lavish Software Team
That seems to be the issue. It has been happening for me as well.
I have WinEQ and EQPlayNice load on boot simply from having shortcuts in the "startup" menu in the start menu.
When EQPlayNice goes to patch, it gets stuck in a loop on EQPlayNice.exe, Lavish.dll, and I think EQPlayNice.dat. Things will continue to just hang in that loop as it attempts to update those files but cant. I thought it was a bug but your explination of WinEQ's integration spells it out for me.
It tries to update those files but cant, why? WinEQ is running. When I exit out of WinEQ, the patcher will then proceed to finish clean as WinEQ isn't holding onto those files and it can actually "update" them. But as long as WinEQ is open with EQPN integration, the EQPN patcher will be unable to patch and just hang in a loop.
So unless people turn OFF EQPN integration within WinEQ, EQPN will never be able to patch itself with WinEQ running in the tray.
A minor nuisence at the moment, not quite sure how you want to approach a "Fix" for it.
-Venthos
I have WinEQ and EQPlayNice load on boot simply from having shortcuts in the "startup" menu in the start menu.
When EQPlayNice goes to patch, it gets stuck in a loop on EQPlayNice.exe, Lavish.dll, and I think EQPlayNice.dat. Things will continue to just hang in that loop as it attempts to update those files but cant. I thought it was a bug but your explination of WinEQ's integration spells it out for me.
It tries to update those files but cant, why? WinEQ is running. When I exit out of WinEQ, the patcher will then proceed to finish clean as WinEQ isn't holding onto those files and it can actually "update" them. But as long as WinEQ is open with EQPN integration, the EQPN patcher will be unable to patch and just hang in a loop.
So unless people turn OFF EQPN integration within WinEQ, EQPN will never be able to patch itself with WinEQ running in the tray.
A minor nuisence at the moment, not quite sure how you want to approach a "Fix" for it.
-Venthos
Ahhh, that does explain it. Any time both WinEQ.exe and EQPlayNice.exe are both running, one of the two will not be able to patch Lavish.dll and will enter a patching loop. It's not necessarily that it's integrating, just that whichever ended up loading Lavish.dll first is going to have the file locked until both programs are closed. I will come up with something this week. At least it's only when Lavish.dll is patched, so it's not very common that you'll end up with this loop.