Right ive read other tutorials and help guides on how to get started but im slightly confuesed as to what applies to me. I want to start playing Dark age of camelot on this server. Ive got all the discs of dark age of camelot that i need and i have installed them. Now what ?
Thanks for the help

If you already have installed DAoC just follow the instructions here, i.e.

1. Download DOLLoader177+
2. Unzip into your DAoC directory.
3. Edit the last line of connect.bat.
4. Double-click connect.bat to play.

I just tried to start the connect.bat with this script:

@echo off
rem ***************************************************************************
rem *
rem * The commandline of the launcher is the following
rem * DOLLoader {Path to game.dll or tgame.dll} {ip_address} {port} [1 for 1.74+ clients] {username} {password}
rem *
rem * {Path to game.dll or tgame.dll} <- Set to the file you want to execute eg. D:\camelot\game.dll
rem * {ip_address} <- Set to the ip address where you want to connect
rem * [1 for 1.74+ clients] <- Put a 1 here if you use 1.74+ client version
rem * {port} <- Set to the port where you want to connect
rem * {username} <- Set to your username
rem * {password} <- Set to your password
rem *
rem * Example for a 1.74+ client:
rem * DOLLoader game.dll 127.0.0.1 10300 1 testuser testpassword
rem *
rem * Example for a 1.73 or lower client:
rem * DOLLoader game.dll 127.0.0.1 10300 testuser testpassword
rem ***************************************************************************
DOLLoader game.dll 89.238.64.166 10300 20 ****** ******


It starts, loads and just when it's about to get done, the game crashes...

Anything I've done wrong?

PS: I use version 1.87

Thanks.

I'm afraid that "My game crashes -- please help me!" isn't very descriptive...

First of all I'd change the last line in your connect.bat from

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DOLLoader game.dll 89.238.64.166 10300 20 ****** ******

to

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DOLLoader game.dll 89.238.64.166 10300 1 ****** ******

since 1.87 > 1.74.

If that doesn't help -- how about some information on your system (such as operating system, graphics adapter, etc.)? Do you have the latest version of DirectX installed? Did you try to update your graphics driver? Did you try to run an update via camelot.exe with the Do complete file-check option enabled? Which add-on (such as Trials of Atlantis, Catacombs, Darkness Rising, Labyrinth of the Minotaurs) are you playing with, anyway? Does the same error occur with other launchers (such as DAoC Portal or Uthgard launcher)? Any useful information in the game logs (such as error.log or debug.log)?

the path to your game.dll is missing, and the " "

for example

DOLLoader "C:\daoc\game.dll" 89.238.64.166 10300 20 ****** ******

Don't need the full path if the game.dll is one folder above the dolloader!

Game crashes ? Are there any errors ?

Maybe you should do an update by clicking the camelot.exe and marking "do a full filescan" (something similar).

Greetings Banjo

Murax wrote:the path to your game.dll is missing, and the " "

No, this information isn't mandatory. It's actually designed to work without it as well. Also, if his problem was connected to a path problem he wouldn't be able to start the game in the first place.

However, this isn't the case:

Zcrubby wrote:It starts, loads and just when it's about to get done, the game crashes...

And @Banjo:

Banjo wrote:Game crashes ? Are there any errors ?

Maybe you should do an update by clicking the camelot.exe and marking "do a full filescan" (something similar).

Aren't these exactly my words? Repeating it doesn't make it wrong but it's not very helpful either.

It seems that using Uthgard Launcher and updating Darkness Rising seems to have done the trick, thank you very much=)