Sorry, I know I probably shouldn't post this question here, but, I'm getting too frustrated and this is my last stop.
I purchased EQ2 last night, and after I installed and downloaded the patch I went to make my character. The game promptly locked up on me. Since then I have spent about 8 hours total trying to get the game to work and have had no success.
I have an AMD athlon xp 2700+
512 DDR ram
a Geforce FX 5950 ultra video card with 256 RAM and the most up to date drivers.
DirectX 9.0c
I am running on a router, and with the info I have given the SOE tech support people, they say the problem is my internet connection. I was using a Microsoft MN500 router, but that wasn't on the supported router list on the tech support webpage, so after about 5 hours of trying to get things working, I went and bought a D-link DI624, which is supposed to be compatible.
I did everything I could but I am still not able to play, the only other thing I can figure is I don't have the port settings correct, or there is some other hardware conflict going on somewhere.
My roommate seems to have no trouble at all with playing on the game, and we share a connection, so that also leads me to believe its not necessarily the internet connection that is the problem.
If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it, thanks in advance.