Hey guys,

Still having issues with EQ2 and Vista.

I installed everquest 2 and went through about an hour of downloading. When it completes I see the message "Update Complete" but the play button does not show. Instead it is a grayed out box that says "Updating" or something. There is text below it that says "Download" but when I click on it it just does a 2 second download and says "Update Complete" again. I have contacted the Tech Support for SOE and they were no help. I tried running the everquest file from the everquest 2 folder and i get a message that says "xul.dll was not found, reinstalling the application may fix the problem." I have reinstalled this game 2 times now. What the heck is going on? Please, someone help me. Lol. I am getting desperate. I just want to play :)

Thanks.

right click on the eq2 shortcut and run as admin

I'm already doing that. I am in Windows XP compatability mode, running as admin. I set the privileges to all users who access this computer (me) to have full access to the files in the sony and everquest 2 folders. I am out of options...

Anyone have any ideas of how to sidestep this? I am fresh out of ideas. This really sucks too because I am really looking forward to playing this game.

If you are sure its done patching, just run the everquest2.exe file in your everquest 2 folder, and it will bypass the whole launch pad.

I have had to do this with SWG and EQ2. Something about SOE and vista. I had to do a different tweak with each one. But I ended up doing some google and yahoo searches for "Star wars galaxies on vista" or "Everquest 2 on vista" you should come upon a thread that tells you the exact settings. With EQ2 there was something different I had to do. It's strange though, because GW CoH and EVE have given me no problems. That being said, once I got past this, SWG and EQ2 are running just fine. The official channels are no help, you have to find a discussion thread.

Are you running behind a firewall, or router? I had a similar problem as yours where I had to run as administrator AND open up certain ports on my router.

http://help.station.sony.com

answer ID = 12293

I hope that helps,

Chris

Im not running Vista, so this might not work for you, but I had the same problem too.  I installed the game fresh and when it finished updating, I wasn't able to click on the "play" button-  in fact, I don't even think it was there.  All I did was close the launchpad down and reload.  When the pad came back up, the play button was an option.

Considering its been a few days since you had this problem, you might have remedied it by now, hopefully.