Everquest on Windows 2000 Server?

[Wizzard005]

Anyone know if myseq and EQ will run on Windows 2k Server?

[Douglas]

It runs fine on my Windows Server 2003 Enterprise. Of course, I had to enable Direct3d acceleration, as it is disabled by default. Good Luck.

[Wizzard005]

blah I have to get 2003 soon :) Thanks!

[Dedpoet]

Sligthly off topic, but is there a trick to get .NET installed on Win2k? I have installed it with no problem at all on 4 different XP machines with no issues at all. Last night I tried to install it on a 2k machine at work from Windows Update and it would just hang forever with 0% left in the install. I tried multiple times, I tried pulling the file straight from the download site instead of Windows Update, and had the same problem. Curious, I tried it on 2 other Win2k machines with the exact same result. All 3 machines are completely up to date with all critical patches from MS.

Is there some combination of updates that does or does not work with this? 2 of the boxes are identical hardware, but the other is completely different. There are not separate downloads for 2k and XP, so I have no idea what was going on. This isn't a big deal really, I just wanted to check something from work and wanted to load it up real quick. The moment is gone, it's just curiosity now.

[pooz]

It runs fine on my Win2k Advanced Server.

I didn't have any problems installing .NET on either of them.

I would suggest NOT trying to get the .NET framework from WindowsUpdate and instead get it from...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/netdevframework.asp

WindowsUpdate = NOT reliable

[Dedpoet]

Yeah, I tried from there. That link points you to the same link as download.microsoft.com gives you. Same result. The only requirement I see is IE 6 SP1, which I have. I would have dismissed it if it didn't happen on 3 different machines. Something is causing the install to hang, but with no error message, I'm clueless.

[Wizzard005]

hehe its Microsoft at its best hehe