Welcome to the world of EverQuest®, a real 3-D massively multi-player fantasy role-playing game. Prepare to enter an enormous virtual environment – an entire world with its own diverse species, economic systems, alliances, and politics. Choose from a variety of races and classes, and begin your quest in any number of cities or villages throughout several continents. From there, equip yourself for adventure, seek allies and knowledge, and head out into a rich world of dungeons, towers, crypts, evil abbeys -- anything conceivable -- even planes and realities beyond your imagination. Learn skills, earn experience, acquire treasure and equipment, meet friends and encounter enemies. A multitude of quests and adventures await, but you choose your role, you define your destiny. But whether you make yourself a noble human knight, a vicious dark elf thief, a greedy dwarven merchant, or whatever suits your desire, remember one thing
An RPG designed from the ground up to be a massively online game. The world of EverQuest was created to support over 1,000 players simultaneously per server.
Choose from 12 races and 14 classes, including dwarves, ogres, trolls, rangers, wizards, and rogues.
Over 40 unique skills and innate abilities.
Thousands of items to earn and collect, both magical and mundane, including artifacts of great power.
Three enormous continents to explore, as well as other dimensions and planes.
Adventuring alone is supported, and forming parties to complete quests encouraged.
Each class and race has strengths and weaknesses, and the stronger groups will be those who balance their parties and work as a team.
Hundreds of spells to learn, with five separate magic-using classes. Also, weapons can be enchanted to cast spells themselves.
Player killing (Pkilling) is controlled such that those who wish to engage in it may do so, however those who do not are completely immune.
Real 3D environment, with multiple camera views. Switch from exploring in first person to any number of top down views to facilitate tactical combat.
Beautiful SVGA (640x480) 16 bit color scenery, with adventure zones including indoor dungeons, arctic tundra, vast deserts, and even completely underwater environments.
Truly polygonal characters, both players and NPC’s – no sprites here.
Optimized for the latest graphic accelerator technology with Direct 3D support.
System Requirements
Original Release of EverQuest
Required:
Windows 95/98
Pentium 166+
32MB RAM
Direct3D or Glide compliant accelerator with 4MB RAM
500MB Hard drive space
28.8k+ internet connection
Windows compatible sound card
Mouse, Keyboard
Recommended:
Pentium 200+
64MB RAM
Ruins of Kunark Expansion
Required:
Windows 95/98/00
Pentium 200
64MB RAM
Direct3D or Glide compliant accelerator card with 8MB RAM
600MB Hard drive space
28.8k+ internet connection
DirectX compatible sound card
2X CD-ROM
Recommended:
Pentium II 266
128MB RAM
Scars of Velious Expansion
Required:
· Windows 95/98/00
· Pentium 200
· 64MB RAM
· Direct3D or Glide compliant accelerator card with 8MB RAM
· DirectX 7.0a compatible sound card
· 28.8k+ Internet connection
· 2X speed CD-ROM
· 600MB Hard drive space
Recommended:
Pentium II 350 or greater
128MB RAM
Direct3D or Glide compliant accelerator card with 16MB RAM
4X speed CD-RO
DirectX 7.0a or Higher Required
EverQuest now requires that clients have DirectX 7.0a or higher installed.
To determine what version of DirectX is currently installed on your system:
Click on start.
Go up to the run box.
In the Run window, type DXDIAG than hit ok. This will launch the DirectX diagnostics tool.
Your version of DirectX will be listed at the bottom of System Information. Version 7.0a is listed as "DirectX 7.0 (4.07.00.0716)"
At this time we do not recommend downloading Direct X 8.0 available at http://www.microsoft.com/directx. Though we are currently unaware of any problems related to this new version of DirectX, we have not completed our testing and cannot as of yet guarantee compatibility with EverQuest. If you have already installed version 8.0, you will probably want to see if EverQuest runs prior to attempting an uninstall.
Please do the following prior to playing EverQuest. It is very important that your drivers are installed in the order indicated to avoid potential problems:
Go to the website for your 3D accelerator. There are a number of different manufacturers, and it is preferred that you visit the website for the manufacturer of your card. You can at your option go to the chipset manufacturer site. Most will be able to use either www.3dfx.com (for Voodoo cards) or www.nvidia.com (for TNT/GeForce cards). Download and install the latest drivers for your card and operating system. See our Video FAQ (http://everquest.station.sony.com/support/audio_video/general_video_troubleshooting.jsp) for more details.
Go to the website for your sound card manufacturer and do the same. If you do not know what brand of sound card you have, you can right-click on "My Computer", go to properties, click on "Device Manager", and open "Sound, Video, and Game Controllers". If you use an SBLive sound card, you can run "LiveUpdate" from the Windows Control Panel off of your start menu. View our Sound FAQ (http://everquest.station.sony.com/support/audio_video/general_audio_troubleshooting.jsp) for driver locations and more details.
If you experience any issues of this type, please do the following:
Run DXDIAG.EXE from your Start menu (click start, run, then type dxdiag.exe)
Click the "Save all Information" button at the bottom of the program window.
Save the file as dxdiag.txt
Email that file to eqmail@verant.com along with a complete description of your problem, any text from any error messages that are presented, and a phone number that you can be reached at if you are willing to assist our test department over the phone.
Also, if you experience a crash to the desktop while running EverQuest, please email your dbg.txt file from your EverQuest directory to the email address above
If you are still having problems after visiting this support section, you can contact our Technical Support Department through an email via our online form.
