Ok, i won't ask the world of you.
I picked this all up yesterday, got my WinServ2k3 out and installed, my MSQL 05 enterprise running. Comp name is HOMESERV, SQL instance is SQLSERV.
I've come across several problems, such as the services starting (except session) and then stopping, which i fixed by replacing the 127.0.0.1 in all config files i could find mentioning DB to HOMESERV\SQLSERV...that got it to connect.
I had to modify the batch installation files, as the original ones didnt work for me, simply because i changed the instance name during installation without thinking about it...took me a while but then i changed all batches connecting to the db. Following is what the command in shaiya_db_restore.bat was changed to...
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osql -S HOMESERV\SQLSERV -E -i temp.sql
After that, it worked great on imports. (note: ALL the .bat's using osql in the first place have to be changed to this for this method to work fully.)
Anyways, i finally get the server up and running, run the version checking and nprotect mods, so its up and working fine. I go to log in with my hex'd client (to change all the ip's to my 127 and remove the email/smtp server, funny thing...when i edit it, it comes up with an OSK? anyone else see that or is that just somethin funky i did? it still works...either way) to my server, it logs me in goes thru server and force choices. I get to the toon screen and i make a new toon (well its already there now so i just select one of them and go). This is the part where i can't seem to solve the problem myself...it goes to the loading screen (like when you are loading the map...) but then almost immediately pops up this box saying "game data load error!!!". Ive run searches on google and on epvp, but the only thread that came up on here mentioned redownloading the us shaiya client and then the euroshaiya patches...which im not dealing with euroshaiya. I did notice something similar on a forum (RGZN i believe) that mentioned it, and a quick fix was to copy a clean ep3 data.saf and data.sah to the 'D:\SHAIYA_SERVER\SERVER\ShaiyaServerPatch\Server\ GameMain\PS_Game' folder. I did, i tried both ep3 (using an installer dated feb 10, 09...from what i understand that was pre-ep4 so i figured it would work.) and fully updated ep4 files, to no avail. The same thing happens whether i use an EP3 or EP4 hex'd game.exe when both are hex'd the same...(not sure the difference?)
I searched for *.log in my 'SERVER' folder, and this is out of the only file that was modified at the time i tried it, in the "D:\SHAIYA_SERVER\SERVER\PSM_Client\Bin\Log\PS_GAM E__system.log__20091211_132703.log" file.
There was only the one line at the specific time, the previous lines were almost 20minutes prior.
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2009-12-11 14:46:18 discon client: ( 7, 10054) T=000:00:00:000, RC=4,RCS=0, RB=46,RBS=1, SC=20,SCS=0, SB=430,SBS=9
Not sure if that line is any help whatsoever, it means nothing to me...i cant even guess what it means.
Any ideas or maybe links to some post i mightve missed?
(need more info? just let me know what u need.)