RoF2 Client

[Alulien]

Hey all,

Trying to get RoF2 setup cuz I'm stuck in the past trying to use UF. Anyway, I'm unable to login successfully to any of my characters using the new client. I'm following the setup instructions:

Get the RoF2 client from THF
Extract to \everquest_rof2_THF
Run THFDownloader
Connect to the game

I make it past character select but the loading bar goes to what looks like 99% and then the window just flat closes. No error, no popup, nothing. I checked out the contents of dbg.txt in the /Logs directory but to untrained eyes that looks fine. Sky.txt mentions the below, but seems to be innocuous:

2022-10-25 22:42:01 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorMap-eviltree-0]
2022-10-25 22:42:01 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorMap-xorb-0]
2022-10-25 22:42:01 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorMap-grelleth-0]
2022-10-25 22:42:01 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorSet-grelleth0]

Any help would be much appreciated, I'm scratching my head big time!

[mrhorrn]

My Go-To for all client issues is to delete / rename the eqclient.ini file and it let it auto-regenerate.
When you downloaded ROF2, did you copy across this file to try and keep your settings? Try deleting / renaming and reloading the game, see if it works when it generates a new file.

[Alulien]

Weird! I didn't copy the ini. I figured I'd just start fresh and make sure I'm taking advantage of the new client feature-set. BUT... deleting and letting the patcher fix it actually did the trick! You're all over with good ideas! Now I just need to get MQ compiled/find a mirror and see if I can figure out my other weird issues. Thanks mrhorrn!!

[mrhorrn]

Haha, welcome

There are lots of issues with the client, most commonly changing clients or even changing computers but keeping the same client, and the fix is always "delete and rebuild" - it's become as much a meme as "turn it off and on again" - but that's because it works.

This thread has a post by one of the devs here so it should be a trusty download and a working build. I dont remember where i got mine, but this looks semi-familiar
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viewtopic.php?f=124&t=14476&p=85065&hilit=MQ2+download#p85065

"If you need an RoF2 version of MQ2 then you can download from here, just select RoF2 and classic build: http://mqemulator.net/downloads.php. All your macros can just be copied over from UF mq2 and they should all work fine."

[Alulien]

Woooow. Way to make it even harder for me to focus on work today haha… I just had to check before I started this morning and now it’s THF on the mind. Thanks again (for real though)!!

[Alulien]

Reporting back in the hopes that someone in the future will benefit. Downloaded the ROF2 Legacy MQEmu Classic build... and froze at character select. The culprit:

mq2casttimer=mq2casttimer

Removed from macroquest.ini and works like a charm, but then right before login I was getting a weird tooltip display error. The culprit:

mq2itemdisplay=mq2itemdisplay

[ItemDisplay]
LootButton=1
LucyButton=1

And now everything is looking good. I need to debug my macros because they're not working like they used to, but I can cast item buffs from bags again... just like before. Thanks for all your help!