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07-19-2004, 04:39 AM

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I also downloaded the Launchpad installer Sony has - and altered the startup string to ["C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\LaunchPad\LaunchPad.exe" /game:everquest] (without the brackets) and behold, Launchpad downloaded EQ skins and started up for EverQuest

and it only took 5 minutes - then I was in Norrath. SWEET

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07-19-2004, 09:06 AM	#17
Yelara A Shissar Defiler Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: ayonae ro Posts: 198	Yes, I admit it. The infirmaties of old age are no fun. When reading the posts yesterday I had my old glasses on and I missed the punctuation in the command line. So I was leaving out the colon :P Typed the correct syntax this morning and voila, Houston we have liftoff Fully updated and ready to run in about 5 minutes __________________ Je t'aime encore, Roguette

07-19-2004, 10:30 AM	#18
Dravenlee A Ghoul Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 18	I am still lost in where to find and edit any of this. The main problem I am having is that I have my EQ directory set on the F drive, not the C, but it won't let me install the launchpad to the F drive for one, and then I can not figure out how to direct it to the F drive to start up the programs, so unless someone can give a bit more detail on how to get this thing started, then I am gonna leave it alone until it goes live...heh... Happy hunting to you all, and Godspeed. __________________ Dravenlee O'Barr Necromancer of the 65th level of Knowledge "My dreams are a reality that I can't hold on to, and reality is a dream that refuses to let me go."

07-19-2004, 01:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dravenlee

I am still lost in where to find and edit any of this. The main problem I am having is that I have my EQ directory set on the F drive, not the C, but it won't let me install the launchpad to the F drive for one, and then I can not figure out how to direct it to the F drive to start up the programs, so unless someone can give a bit more detail on how to get this thing started, then I am gonna leave it alone until it goes live...heh... Happy hunting to you all, and Godspeed.

after installing Launchpad make a shortcut to it on your desktop

then right click on it and select Properties

and on the target line you will see "C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\Launchpad\LaunchPad.exe"

ADD /game:everquest to the end to get

"C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\Launchpad\LaunchPad.exe" /game:everquest

and then run the short cut.

should work then.

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07-19-2004, 02:21 PM	#20
Dravenlee A Ghoul Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 18	Thank you Kudane....will try it as soon as I kill this Goranga!

07-19-2004, 02:37 PM	#21
Minalcar Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 107	Where does a person get the launchpad to try it? Do we log onto the Testserver and run it or is there a download from EQlive's website? Minalcar

07-19-2004, 03:05 PM	#22
Gugaz_Lyono A Ghoul Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 12	I know this may be a lil "outta line" but... Has anyone tried to use EQW to run the new Launchpad?

07-19-2004, 04:35 PM	#23
mortis42 eqmods.mortis42.net Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: Rodcet Nife Posts: 552	Hi guys. I never 'installed' EverQuest on this computer. I just copied over a backup of my EverQuest folder. There are no registry entries. I did a search of the registry just to be sure. The launchpad patcher does nto give me an option to point it to my EQ folder. How did you folks get this to work for a directory besides "..\Sony\EverQuest" ? __________________ My EQUI Blog Grazzt Takish`Hiz - Human Monk ~ Tzion - Dark Elf Cleric ~ Kitashi - Vah Shir Rogue ~ Cabre - Iksar Beastlord ~ Frazzt - Froglok Wizard

07-19-2004, 04:40 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Minalcar

Where does a person get the launchpad to try it? Do we log onto the Testserver and run it or is there a download from EQlive's website?

Minalcar

http://launchpad.station.sony.com/

07-19-2004, 05:59 PM	#25
Minalcar Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 107	Thank you kindly Mortis. Minalcar

07-19-2004, 07:11 PM	#26
oakfn A Hill Giant Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 38	launcher hi so do i download launchpad to my eq folder? ok got to work but it starts patching and makes another eq folder so i than have eq in my pc twice,any thoughts Thanks for any help Eqfn Last edited by oakfn : 07-19-2004 at 08:16 PM. Reason: adding things

07-19-2004, 09:30 PM	#27
Cutanea A Treant Join Date: Feb 2004 Server: Karana Posts: 29	Is there really anything better from the old start up? I mean what exactly does this do that the current one does not? (sorry for the newbie question) Cutanea __________________

07-20-2004, 02:35 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cutanea

Is there really anything better from the old start up? I mean what exactly does this do that the current one does not? (sorry for the newbie question)

Cutanea

It allows more information to be passed to the end user. IE the patch-message can be read while the patcher is going, it also allows SOE to do some work on the backend. SWG, Planetside, EQ2 and I think all the freebie games use Launchpad as its core. EQ was just behind in not using it.

/bow

07-20-2004, 11:25 PM

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For the record, I finally was able to get this to ask me for the location of my EQ directories.

I had to remove the following Registry keys:

Code:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr  entVersion\App Paths\eqgame.exe]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr  entVersion\App Paths\everquest.exe]

Then when I ran launchpad again, I recieved a pop-up dialog asking me where my EverQuest directory was.

If you dont want to go into your registry to delete these keys, you can use the attached file.

Attached Files

eq_reg.zip (304 Bytes, 15 views)

07-23-2004, 04:26 PM	#30
A_Nolan A Snow Griffin Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 54	/camp desktop with launchpad is it just me or does /camp desktop take all of you back to server screen when you use launchpad __________________ Yurek http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=442656 http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...tml?char=276165 WWJD (read the book and find out john 3:16)