I'm having some trouble with THF. I had this game loaded and playing fine, for a few weeks, until one day recently it just took a dump on me by not allowing me to log in. Being a computer dumbass all I could think off was to re-check all the areas I had changed at start up. Everything was as it should've been but still I couldn't login in. So I deleted everything. Deleted the shortcuts. Deleted the TGF folder. End of story.
However, I wanted to play THF, so:
1) I reinstalled the UF client from the THF website
2) I installed the THF downloader, even tho it must've already been in the UF files because it asked to over write the files. I did so. I then made a shortcut and placed on desktop
3) I made a shortcut of the eqgame.exe file and added patchme in properties, with a space before the word patchme, per the instructions. moved the shortcut to desktop
4) opened the eqhost file and edited it to just the following:
[login server]
Host=login.eqemulator.net:5999
5) per the instructions, I double clicked on my THFdownloader icon on the desktop and got the message:
Invalid Folder: Cannot find eqgame.exe
6) So I double clicked on the eqgame.exe icon I had put on the desktop and on numerous tries getting error messages, about passwords and soe eq (whatever the hell that was about) I finally got past the login screen and made it to the character select screen, Only to find 1999 style characters. NOT what I had been previously playing.
So, after all that, something is obviously still wrong and I am clueless as to what the problem is. At this point I'm about to just say F it and give up on THF. If anyone has any clues or tips or ideas as to what I am doing wrong, please respond. I'd appreciate the help.
Since I had THF up and running fine once, proving I am not a total dumbass, I really am frustrated that all of a sudden nothing works correctly, when as far as I know, I'm doing all the correct things to get up and running.
Thanks.
EDIT:
Important and probably relevant, after logging into game with the 1999 graphics, I clicked on options > display, clicked on full screen button, and the screen freezes. Waiting does nothing and the cursor just spins in a circle forever until I force a shutdown. So not sure what that deal is either. Just saying.