EQMac.com

First, to avoid confusion, be sure to use the new URL (https://lp.soe.com/eqmac/live/) and remove the "EverQuest Mac Test" app from /Users/username/Applications if it exists.

There is no longer any reason to have more than one copy cluttering up your hard drive. Be sure and copy over any custom UI's you have loaded into test first.

Next, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Next, remove any files that have "running" in the name in the preference folder (IE: EverQuest Mac.running.accountname) by using:

Finally from within a terminal window use the following command to prevent all reading and writing to the preferences folder.


Ta-Da! You can now launch as many copies as your computer can handle by just changing the account using the "Switch Account" drop down menu in the new launcher.

Note: you have to have launched EQ at least once before you can use this fix.

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I come back to you now, at the turn of the tilde~

Woot! Thanks a ton for figuring this out. This is perfect timing for me as I was just getting ready to attempt duo-boxing on my iMac, and after looking at some of the more tedious methods for doing this, it's nice that there's a more convenient solution.

I'll give this a try as soon as I get the chance - thanks again

I hear we're getting a new launchpad soon, do you think this will cause a problem with that?

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Crickett & Sprint

bijaz is the smartest man alive

This is somewhat off-topic, but seeing as how you need to use windowed mode to box (I did this by adding the windowedMode True thing to the ini, as I couldn't find any other way), does anyone happen to know how to use the displays picture settings, rather than the iMac itself? In fullscreen, the game seems to use my HDTV Gamma/brightness/etc settings, but in windowed mode it's so dark I can barely see anything, unless I crank the in-game gamma up really high.

In other words, is it necessary to change the brightness and whatnot through the iMac (and EQ client) itself when using windowed mode, or is there an option in OS X to use the displays settings instead? I guess it's really not a big deal either way, I was just curious. I still don't know much at all about OS X

Senvilan, I'm new to OS X myself and have been going into the display settings under system preferences, and changing the profile to one that is brighter. There is probably a better way to do it, but it does really help out a lot for playing in windowed mode.

So I did this and everything loads up just wonderfully...only thing is, in the second instance I open up (using Spaces) everything works but the left mouse button. I can type in the windows, I can turn using my right button, but I can't left click anything. Thoughts?

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Blackfell, Outrider of <Destiny>

Blackfell: do /mc i and click OK in the error dialog that pops up

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Sinnder, Enchanter of Destiny
Joshore, Druid of Destiny

Lets say I wanted to keep using Test... Would my terminal line be:

chmod 0000 ~/Library/Preferences/SOEWebInstaller/EverQuest\ Test\ Mac/

??

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Mukk the Smelly
Not so smelly alts: Slave Driver, Mach One, Mukks Muscles, Iason MD, Tele Porter

There is no reason to use test, test is same version as live right now... just remove it and move on.

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I'm reluctant to use Live, because it has NEVER worked for me. Not once. Haven't tried in a while, but I'd rather just continue using Test. (and not have to port ui files, etc over)

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Mukk the Smelly
Not so smelly alts: Slave Driver, Mach One, Mukks Muscles, Iason MD, Tele Porter

Delete the Everquest Mac, and rename Everquest Mac Test to Everquest Mac, switch the launcher to live. They are the exact same game files right now so if you are having trouble than it's something else.

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This didn't work for me. It caused the launcher to crash or eternally be "initializing."

Setting chmod to 0000 means noone has access to read or write to these files -- how can that work?

I changed the read/write permissions to read & write for myself, and "everyone" to "read only."

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You have to do it after you've previously logged in -- so it's created the files it needs to create. And you do it to the directory, not the files themselves. That means it can't create new Running files - which it knows something is running.

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Joshore, Druid of Destiny