Running MQ and using the latest offsets. Everything loads OK but I get a secondary cursor in the middle of the screen that seems to be screwing up all /click commands.
Anybody else have this ?
I am running Win2K. Anybody else running Win2K and not having this problem ?
Anybody who knows how MQ actually works any clues as to what might be causing it ?
Fippy.
Please Answer: Odd cusor problem
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Re: Please Answer: Odd cusor problem
OMFG!! Tell me you are not trying to RUN Eq and Macro on a $hitty W2K platform!!Fippy wrote:I am running Win2K. Anybody else running Win2K and not having this problem ?
Run, not walk to your nearest File-Crack Download site and get WinXP Professional. I bet half if not all of your problems will be solved by that one simple (and necessary) act!
W2K is over and never should be the OS platform for intense graphic and sound games. Especially one that was a KLUDGE to begin with, such as EQ. It was only meant to operate on Win95/98 platforms. The graphics are much smoother, and the old-fashioned MIDI sound files will not sound like they are being generated through rusty bed-springs.
Verant only recently got it to even RUN on XP, with all their DX8.1 and endless .DLL enhancements. And even now, that still is barely acceptable.
And pulllleeease, don't respond and say something lame as, "But EQ works fine on W2K." NO IT DOES NOT! If you think so, you haven't seen EQ on Win98, the way it was /meant/ to be played.
Last edited by PlayPal on Fri Aug 09, 2002 2:10 pm, edited 2 times in total.
That is probably because you are trying to run a (uggh) *legit* copy of XP. hahaha. Get some cracked .ISO file copy of WinXP off a web file-sucker site, such as Kazaa, and your XP registration problems will go away.L124RD wrote:Salutations,
win98 was definately the peak of windows, best windows os imho... xp is ok i guess... only thing i like about it is it hasn't crashed yet... but when i put in a new mb? it wants me to re-register?!? *cry*
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cyberglitch
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I would recomend getting a cracked version like PlayPal said. But I do suggest actually purchasing software. I did go out and purchse XP Pro, but when it came time to install I used a cracked version. I've seen to amny companies/people get busted and know better and always have my MS certificate handy 
Hey PlayPal.
I use Win2k with EQ without sound cause the DX8 dll sux and doesn't handle sound as well as graphics, and to reduce the amount of work my box has to perform so i can enjoy my sessions of EQ without Graphics Lag, Without Rusty Bedspring sound, Without crashes to desktop for no apparent reason, without memory conflicts, or windows popping up over EQ telling me ther was an error..
See, i play EQ on my Win2k box without a single complaint, not a single problem, and actually i am quite pleased with it.
But, since you have that "i know it all, cause i do" sort of post above this, i felt the need to respond to it as a win2k user.
And i play it on a legit OS, so i can only get busted for hacking other stuff =)
I use Win2k with EQ without sound cause the DX8 dll sux and doesn't handle sound as well as graphics, and to reduce the amount of work my box has to perform so i can enjoy my sessions of EQ without Graphics Lag, Without Rusty Bedspring sound, Without crashes to desktop for no apparent reason, without memory conflicts, or windows popping up over EQ telling me ther was an error..
See, i play EQ on my Win2k box without a single complaint, not a single problem, and actually i am quite pleased with it.
But, since you have that "i know it all, cause i do" sort of post above this, i felt the need to respond to it as a win2k user.
And i play it on a legit OS, so i can only get busted for hacking other stuff =)
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Downgrade your EQ Game Box to WinME or even Win98 SE2. You will NEVER go back to Win2000 for EQ again. Promise.Java wrote:and actually i am quite pleased with it.
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Then you WOULD be able to enjoy EQ WITH all the graphics turned up and the Sound and Music running, and not have to Kludge your setup just to run it. Cause Win 9.x is what EQ was written for. Yes, the original coding is that old. And they cannot kludge it well enough to work with any newer OS. No matter how many patches they release. Even Verant admits this.
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I started playing EQ when it came out, on a 98 machine, skipped WinME, because it sucked, upgraded to 2k shortly after it came out, have always played with 100% of the graphics and sound (except music, who the heck wants to listen to THAT) and never had a problem. And I was/am running it on medioce machine, nothing spectacular. Newest machine running 2k, 1.7 gig, 512 ram, geforce 4, forget which.
Older machine, still running EQ with all graphics on, win2k, 1 gig, 1 gig of ram (have no place else to put it...) geforce 3. Oldest machine, runs a good half of the luclin models, 2k, 256 ram, p2 333.
Never have to reboot my systems either, unlike with 9x, which if I didn't reboot every couple days, a week at the most, crashed.
Older machine, still running EQ with all graphics on, win2k, 1 gig, 1 gig of ram (have no place else to put it...) geforce 3. Oldest machine, runs a good half of the luclin models, 2k, 256 ram, p2 333.
Never have to reboot my systems either, unlike with 9x, which if I didn't reboot every couple days, a week at the most, crashed.
Yeah but XP is more DX and game friendly than 2k... 2k is still partially made of the NT mentality, where directx3 was fine for 3 years going ...
Eitherway, 2000's stability rocked 98SE and features rocked NT, and XPs additional stability and feature set make it, IMHO better than 2k
either way i think 2ksp3 is the last service pack so no more updates..
time to use XP anyhow.. or windows.net ;p
Eitherway, 2000's stability rocked 98SE and features rocked NT, and XPs additional stability and feature set make it, IMHO better than 2k
either way i think 2ksp3 is the last service pack so no more updates..
time to use XP anyhow.. or windows.net ;p