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Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.24 03:07:00 - [1] I've had a number of requests for this, so here it is: this will solve the "black screen on bootup" problem that some people get after installing a test server build alongside TQ, amongst other problems. Mods, any chance of a sticky? If anyone wants to add some pretty pictures alongside my installation instructions, I'd appreciate it. Likewise, if anyone would mind editing this to work on Vista, which stores data in slightly different directories, please do so and I'll include it in this post. First off, the .bat (XP version): Originally by: Windows XP .bat @echo off REM Some pathnames set EVEPATH=%CD% set RAMPATH=%EVEPATH%\cache set PROFPATH=%EVEPATH%\UserProfile REM the only reason for this variable is to combat word-wrap on eve-o. set SETDIR=Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\settings @echo "Creating infrastructure under '%PROFPATH%'" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\My Documents" IF NOT EXIST "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\History.txt" ( @echo "Copying over old files and settings..." REM Copy over old data from USERPROFILE xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%USERPROFILE%\%SETDIR%" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" REM Copy over old data from local Cache, if extant xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%EVEPATH%\cache\settings" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" @echo "Done!" ) REM Don't worry, USERPROFILE isn't getting set outside of this process. set USERPROFILE=%PROFPATH% "%EVEPATH%\eve.exe" /end /LUA:OFF So, easy way to do this, first. (Note to the experienced users: I'm assuming they don't have file extensions shown; that's why we're doing this the roundabout way.) Open up Notepad, paste all that in. Save it into your Eve directory as "eve.txt". Now, on the start menu, hit Run. In the box, type "cmd" and hit enter. At the command prompt, navigate to your Eve directory using the "cd" command. If you haven't changed it, this will work: cd C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve Then rename the .txt file to .bat: rename eve.txt eve.bat Open an Explorer window in the current directory: start . (Note the ".", preceded by a space.) Click the "X" in the corner of the command prompt window to close it. Now just right-click-drag that .bat file and create a shortcut on your desktop, or your start menu, or wherever you typically run Eve from. Use the new shortcut to run Eve, and everything should work! If you want to make it a bit more fancy, create the shortcut as before, but then right-click the shortcut and choose Properties. Click "change icon"; it'll tell you the .bat file doesn't have any icons and offer up some default ones. In the box at the top, type: C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve\eve.exe and hit enter. The Eve icon will appear. Select it and hit OK. Now your shortcut has the proper icon! If you need to clear it, your cache is now back under C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve\cache. Your "settings" directory, which you typically do NOT want to clear, is now in C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\settings. Good thing you don't really want to clear that very often, eh? To make it work on a new Eve install (for example, a test server install), just copy the .bat file to the new Eve directory and make a fresh shortcut to it. I'd strongly suggest renaming it so you can keep track of which one starts out of which directory! --P Moved to Known Issues and Workarounds from EVE General Discussion -Rauth Kivaro ([email protected]) Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.24 03:08:00 - [2] -reserved for XP version, RAMDisk version (once I finish removing all the cruft from mine), etc., etc.- Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.24 18:12:00 - [3] Really, no responses, guys? I thought this was needed, judging by the number of people ***ing on IRC. Oh, well. --P Kosh*: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.*
Inuyasha507 Caldari Chaos Monkeys	Posted - 2007.06.24 19:30:00 - [4] do u have one of those for vista yet????
Kindakrof Caldari Cruor Frater Coalition of Carebear Killers	Posted - 2007.06.25 00:22:00 - [5] THANXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX OMG --- --- ---
Methylphenidate	Posted - 2007.06.25 01:13:00 - [6] the batch runs and it is in the correct directory however nothing happens now. The cmd flashes up for about a frame then dissapears and eve doesn't start... any ideas?
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.25 01:52:00 - [7] Originally by: Methylphenidate the batch runs and it is in the correct directory however nothing happens now. The cmd flashes up for about a frame then dissapears and eve doesn't start... any ideas? Hmm, okay. Can you run it in a command window (start->run, "cmd", "cd c:\Program Files\CCP\Eve" (or whatever your Eve directory is), then run it by typing "eve.bat") and tell me what it says? --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.25 01:53:00 - [8] Originally by: Inuyasha507 do u have one of those for vista yet???? Nope, but if you can tell me the folder structure under which CCP stores the Eve application data, I can create one pretty easily. --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Methylphenidate	Posted - 2007.06.25 02:13:00 - [9] Edited by: Methylphenidate on 25/06/2007 02:13:02 Originally by: Pilk Hmm, okay. Can you run it in a command window (start->run, "cmd", "cd c:\Program Files\CCP\Eve" (or whatever your Eve directory is), then run it by typing "eve.bat") and tell me what it says? --P I just prints the contents of the batch file, the same as the text that you first posted...
Methylphenidate	Posted - 2007.06.25 03:16:00 - [10] Got it fixed, thanks for the help. :)
3rdoffive Siorai Iontach	Posted - 2007.06.25 04:30:00 - [11] Edited by: 3rdoffive on 25/06/2007 04:31:56 i have vista...i did it all and put it in the right directory, however i have a different problem...the program will run, to the intro screen (REVII) it will sit there for a little while and then stop running, as in the program ends. by the way, i tried a number of things to get this to go away...uninstall-reinstall, deletion and re-downloading the client, even system recovery to a point before this happened. none of it worked
Miter	Posted - 2007.06.25 04:58:00 - [12] Well, thanks! The title of the thread didn't seem to be related to anything I was having trouble with.... but once I found the thread, it's exactly what I need to counteract the boneheaded decision of CCP to muck unnecessarily with the data file movement. Thanks to you, I can now log back into eve. Btw, one of your placeholders is listed as being for 'XP version' which you have already provided... should probably be 'Vista version'
Miter	Posted - 2007.06.25 05:09:00 - [13] Edited by: Miter on 25/06/2007 05:08:08 A posted a link to this thread from the Patch Issue Tracking thread
Constantinee Caldari Omerta Syndicate Exuro Mortis	Posted - 2007.06.25 05:13:00 - [14] hey. this isent working for me man and to be quite frank im about to throw my damn computer out of my window then ask ccp to buy me a new one for the greif they are causing right now :). so this is what happens first i get the black screen then t be sure i uninstall then reinstall eve and get ri dof all settings folders and sisi folder. still black screen of doom. now i do as you say but get something weird . my cmd does this. the hell is this? so ok i try and go around it i to a comp search for cmd. one pops up in my sp files folder ok i click. i go to the adress for the eve folder as it says above andjust get nothing after that. so i manually go to eve folder and rename it eve.bat. still nothing do the iconing stuff and still i am screwed. so my question is this....WTF AM I DOING WRONG AND HOW CAN I FIX MY DAMN CMD!? oh and again thank you ccp for making my eve experience wonderful :) Omerta Syndicate
Inuyasha507 Caldari Chaos Monkeys	Posted - 2007.06.25 06:56:00 - [15] Originally by: Pilk Originally by: Inuyasha507 do u have one of those for vista yet???? Nope, but if you can tell me the folder structure under which CCP stores the Eve application data, I can create one pretty easily. --P its the same as XP (C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE)i think, but the capture and chatlog folders are stored in the documents folder
Lukas Rox Torchwood Industries	Posted - 2007.06.25 07:23:00 - [16] Edited by: Lukas Rox on 25/06/2007 07:27:59 Quote: now i do as you say but get something weird . my cmd does this. the hell is this? I've seen this kind of errors on a PC infected with Win32.Tenga It's an actual virus - not a worm - that modifies exe files to contain virus copies. Some EXE files wont run properly when infected. The error might also indicate some corruption in your system files leading DOS VM to a crash. Scan the system with some AV software just to be sure. --- Visit in game for nice items links http://eve.interkam.pl/eveships
XLord Amarr De Valken BV Sylph Alliance	Posted - 2007.06.25 07:52:00 - [17] i did everything you said above but when i try to start eve i get the first nice pic of rev. II and then it should show me the screen where it was black but no i dont get the screen at all:S help what did i do wrong:P
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.25 12:47:00 - [18] Originally by: XLord i did everything you said above but when i try to start eve i get the first nice pic of rev. II and then it should show me the screen where it was black but no i dont get the screen at all:S help what did i do wrong:P Are you running it with the .bat, or did you accidentally make a shortcut to the .exe? --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.25 12:51:00 - [19] Originally by: Inuyasha507 Originally by: Pilk Originally by: Inuyasha507 do u have one of those for vista yet???? Nope, but if you can tell me the folder structure under which CCP stores the Eve application data, I can create one pretty easily. --P its the same as XP (C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE)i think, but the capture and chatlog folders are stored in the documents folder I'm told the Application Data folder has a different name, at least. Something like "AppData", perhaps? Open a command prompt and type this: dir /s /b /ad Eve And tell me what you get. --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.25 12:58:00 - [20] Originally by: Constantinee EDIT Ok i fixed it i just deleted the eve directory in the local settings. if there is anyway you can show me how to fix that cmd issue so i can do what you shjow for the future please eve mail me. thx const Sounds like you have a nasty little virus, TBH. Grab any of a half-dozen free anti-virus programs (I recommend Clam-Win, which is free and open-source) and see if you get any hits. --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
J3ST3R Gallente Dark Light Inc	Posted - 2007.06.25 14:57:00 - [21] I have the same problem as Methylphenidate can you post what the resolution of this problem was please.
Johnny NESSUK	Posted - 2007.06.25 15:01:00 - [22] Thanks man. All sorted. I even re downloaded Eve before i found your fix. Good work. :)
XLord Amarr De Valken BV Sylph Alliance	Posted - 2007.06.25 17:10:00 - [23] Originally by: Pilk Originally by: XLord i did everything you said above but when i try to start eve i get the first nice pic of rev. II and then it should show me the screen where it was black but no i dont get the screen at all:S help what did i do wrong:P Are you running it with the .bat, or did you accidentally make a shortcut to the .exe? --P nop made the .bat and than tried it but all i get is nice start/load screen and then when it disapears i get nothing in return:S
Inuyasha507 Caldari Chaos Monkeys	Posted - 2007.06.25 17:33:00 - [24] ok i ran the green stuff and got this......C:\Users\Anthony\AppData\local\CCP\EVE then, C:\Users\Anthony\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\CCP\EVE and after that is, C:\Users\AnthonyDocuments\|EVE
JanSVK	Posted - 2007.06.25 17:52:00 - [25] Thank you for the fix.
Kyder	Posted - 2007.06.25 18:16:00 - [26] I'm still having no joy, beginning to gt annoyed about it to be honest, tried unistalling reinstalling, everything, clearing cache, trying your method, nothing.
J3ST3R Gallente Dark Light Inc	Posted - 2007.06.25 20:55:00 - [27] @echo off REM Some pathnames set EVEPATH=%CD% set RAMPATH=%EVEPATH%\cache set PROFPATH=%EVEPATH%\UserProfile REM the only reason for this variable is to combat word-wrap on eve-o.set SETDIR=Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\settings @echo "Creating infrastructure under '%PROFPATH%'" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\My Documents" IF NOT EXIST "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\History.txt" ( @echo "Copying over old files and settings..." REM Copy over old data from USERPROFILE xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%USERPROFILE%\%SETDIR%" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" REM Copy over old data from local Cache, if extant xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%EVEPATH%\cache\settings" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" @echo "Done!" ) REM Don't worry, USERPROFILE isn't getting set outside of this process. set USERPROFILE=%PROFPATH%" %EVEPATH%\eve.exe" /end /LUA:OFF Spaces missing from Pilk's post put them into my txt file then did the dat conversion and het presto back in eve
Inuyasha507 Caldari Chaos Monkeys	Posted - 2007.06.25 23:22:00 - [28] Originally by: J3ST3R @echo off REM Some pathnames set EVEPATH=%CD% set RAMPATH=%EVEPATH%\cache set PROFPATH=%EVEPATH%\UserProfile REM the only reason for this variable is to combat word-wrap on eve-o.set SETDIR=Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\settings @echo "Creating infrastructure under '%PROFPATH%'" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\My Documents" IF NOT EXIST "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\History.txt" ( @echo "Copying over old files and settings..." REM Copy over old data from USERPROFILE xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%USERPROFILE%\%SETDIR%" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" REM Copy over old data from local Cache, if extant xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%EVEPATH%\cache\settings" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" @echo "Done!" ) REM Don't worry, USERPROFILE isn't getting set outside of this process. set USERPROFILE=%PROFPATH%" %EVEPATH%\eve.exe" /end /LUA:OFF Spaces missing from Pilk's post put them into my txt file then did the dat conversion and het presto back in eve can u explain what that is for??
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.26 01:16:00 - [29] Originally by: J3ST3R @echo off REM Some pathnames set EVEPATH=%CD% set RAMPATH=%EVEPATH%\cache set PROFPATH=%EVEPATH%\UserProfile REM the only reason for this variable is to combat word-wrap on eve-o.set SETDIR=Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\settings @echo "Creating infrastructure under '%PROFPATH%'" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data" mkdir "%PROFPATH%\My Documents" IF NOT EXIST "%PROFPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\History.txt" ( @echo "Copying over old files and settings..." REM Copy over old data from USERPROFILE xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%USERPROFILE%\%SETDIR%" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" REM Copy over old data from local Cache, if extant xcopy /C /I /D /K /R /E /H /Y "%EVEPATH%\cache\settings" "%PROFPATH%\%SETDIR%" @echo "Done!" ) REM Don't worry, USERPROFILE isn't getting set outside of this process. set USERPROFILE=%PROFPATH%" %EVEPATH%\eve.exe" /end /LUA:OFF Spaces missing from Pilk's post put them into my txt file then did the dat conversion and het presto back in eve Where are spaces missing in my post, exactly? I want to correct it, but all seems to be in order. Also, you put "REM the only reason for this variable is to combat word-wrap on eve-o.set SETDIR=Local" all on one line. --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Pilk Axiom Empire	Posted - 2007.06.26 01:28:00 - [30] Originally by: J3ST3R I have the same problem as Methylphenidate can you post what the resolution of this problem was please. Does the file have a batch file icon () or a text file icon ()? --P Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

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