EQ Beta Patcher and normal patcher

Pest Control · Post by **Pest Control** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:00 pm

Is there any way for me to load up BetaEverQuest patcher while normal is running without it capturing me doing that so it doesn't tell me it is incompatible with this version of EQ and then boot me off that instance?

I would like to be on both servers at the same time.

I have placed the beta patcher in a seperate folder, ran it there, and let it download all the files to that folder.

Post by **Lax** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:09 pm

Really dont know, I've never been in an EQ beta

Is the patcher executable different or is everything basically the same?

Pest Control · Post by **Pest Control** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:16 pm

It has a different picture on it. Before I made a seperate folder it would repatch a bunch of files including the eqgame and dll.

It got so annoying each time I went to the regular game and back to beta that I asked in beta if you could have a way to not have it patch both every time. I was told someone made a seperate folder.
I made a eqbeta folder within the root and it downloaded all files when ran from it.

WinEQ still sees me loading the beta program while in-game on a regular server and pops up the incompatible error box. If I click ok it boots me out of the beta game.

Post by **Lax** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:18 pm

Oh. So what you're saying is *EQPLAYNICE* is giving you the message. You can disable EQPlayNice and be able to play both.

Pest Control · Post by **Pest Control** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:05 am

but that defeats the purpose. I wanted to play with it on one and load up beta normally.

Post by **Lax** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:03 am

Well, from your posts it wasnt obvious that you were asking that, and it also wasnt obvious that you were getting the EQPlayNice message (I thought it was the game server rejecting the client or something). Anyway, I updated the EQPlayNice DLL for you such that if the version is incompatible, it will give the message box, but continue as though EQPlayNice was never loaded.

Aala · Post by **Aala** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:55 am

Ah, that's nice, means we won't have to do anything special on patch days.

meisenst · Post by **meisenst** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:32 pm

Lax, the Beta EQ patcher is "BetaEverQuest.EXE". Could we get the option to use that instead of TestEverQuest.EXE? Maybe instead of a toggle for Test, make it a selection of Live, Test, Beta?

meisenst · Post by **meisenst** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:32 pm

Oops, I forgot -- beta uses testeqgame.exe to run the game itself.