If you are having the same problem I am having it will download one file of the patch and then try to download the next one and either you will get a internet connection lost message or IO message, here is what you do ---

1) cancel download (just click cancel so you can resume it)

2) find the first file that was downloaded, then look at the file that was downloaded after the first one, you need to delete that one from your everquest directory.

2) resume the download, you might have to click cancel and resume the download a few times until it starts downloading, it will download the file then start on the second and mess up again

3) click cancel and find the file that it messed up on the download and delete it

I hope this helps some of you out who are having the same problem as I am having, hopefully I will be able to download each file over a long period of time =(

Oh well take care

Bartleby Windtalker
Druid of the 31st Season
The Rathe

Checking for new files.....sorry there isnt any and your sonyed!

I'm getting those evil IO errors too, anyone know what they are and what to do about it? I've deleted the files that are giving the error and rerun the patch, still the same problem.

error 1017:cannot login to the eq server

you may need to rerun the update patch.
repeatedly seeing this message indicates a loss of connectivity to the patch server this is usually temporary. I get this after i sigh on and choose a server(zallon). so close but so far no luck any suggestions? i'm dying here!

well don't this suck i my screen just says

pleas wait !!! this blows

what does it mean if i dont have the proper access privaleges?

Anyone else getting the "Local I/O file error" as well in the patch process?

Why haven’t they set up patch Mirrors with the popular EQ Sites ????????????

Is getting stuck on the windows patcher part normal? or is there something i can do to fix it

You can pick your friends
and you can pick your nose
and you can also pick to
kick sony's ***!
March on!

Pigfoot,
Badly dressed cleric

Was Verant right in forcing people to get better hardware to run the new game?

My stance is that it really has nothing to do with Verant. The current state of the gaming industry calls for improved graphics, graphical effects and sounds. Everquest has to stay competitive with what the newer games are offering in order to stay alive. Great gameplay and innovation can only go so far.

Also, compared to some of the current games out there, EQ's new requirements really aren't half bad. Anybody ever try playing Black and White, Hitman: Codename 47, or any other decently complex game that came out within the last year? (Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a monster-PC-requiring game that I forgot to mention but made headlines with how much computing power was necessary to run it and how incredibly buggy it was when it shipped).

In the end, Verant had no choice in beefing up EQ's graphics engine. It was either upgrade or die. I'm sure we've all seen the awesome screen shots comming from games like Worlds of Warcraft and Star Wars Online.

Besides, $100 for a vid card, and $50 for RAM? Please, those are things you need in order to upgrade your old clunker anyway. Not to be elitist, but who the heck still runs anything less than a PII-500 with 128MB of RAM and a sub-par vid card and still seriously expect to run any game with half-decent graphics?

If you're a game player, you can't afford to stay behind on your hardware. Of course, anybody under 18, with no job really has no business replying to this post, since, honestly, you have no control over the hardware you've got (my heart goes out to you guys). However, those of us a little older, if we chose game playing as our hobby, we need to put in the money and the work (i.e. 12 hours camping the AC for JBoots).

Anyhow, that's my stance, and it's managed to kill some time for me while I try to get EQ to work. God, I'm really feeling withdrawal symptoms...I've bitten my nails down to the bone.

Verant is waiting for all our checks to clear ;)
grrr i wish patch was next week i could have played all day monday and most of tuesday :(

well at least i can look at the time iis cuz these post are coming in like hot cakes