Clients:TAKP

The TAKP client is from the December 2002 (about 15 months and two expansions after the Trilogy Client was released) era and is based on the MAC client that was used for Macintosh players on the Mac-only Al'Kabor Server on EQ Live. This client supports all client features and expansions that were available at this month in the Planes of Power era. Other emulated servers use later era clients and may or may not remove some of the client's newer features to try and more closely mimic the classic experience (classic in the sense of an older era of EQ, not merely pre-Kunark).

Expansions Supported

1. The Ruins of Kunark
2. The Scars of Velious
3. The Shadows of Luclin
4. The Planes of Power

System Requirements

Required Specs

• Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
• Pentium II 400Mhz or greater
• 256 MB RAM
• 16 MB Direct3D compliant video card
• DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
• 28.8k (or faster) Internet connection
• 4X speed CD-ROM
• 450 MB+ hard drive space

Also Note: Although technically below the minimum specs, players with 128 MB of RAM will still be able to run Luclin by turning off the new character models.

Recommended Specs

• Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
• Pentium III or greater
• 512 MB of RAM
• 32 MB Direct3D compliant video card and hardware T&L (i.e. ATI Radeon or Nvidia GeForce 2 or greater)
• DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
• 56.6k (or faster) Internet connection
• 16X speed CD-ROM
• 1.5 GB+ hard drive space

Note: DirectX 8.1 or greater is required for Windows 98, XP, ME, and 2k.

Note: DirectX 8.1; Version 8.0a is listed as "DirectX 8.0a (4.08.01.0881)

Modifications

TAKP's supported client however has several modifications that were done to improve the user experience:

• A built-in frame rate limiter was put in to cap the frame rate. (clients this old did not have one)
• The client's aggressive CPU use was reduced so it will not needlessly over-utilize an entire CPU core.
• An Alt-Enter fullscreen feature was implemented to enable full screen mode.
• Missing environmental sound effects added.
• The recently surfaced Luclin zone music was added.

Download the client zip:

1. The supported windows client v2.1 (zipped, includes all files including v3.5.3.2c of the eqgame.dll already) is available here
2. Alternate TAKP v2.2 client package is available here - changelog on forums here - md5= 002741614acef667b9c70e55a5a766e0
   1. Additional download link: https://sahaquiel.us/quarm/TAKP2.2.zip - use this if you experience bandwidth download throttling error
3. FreeTheMouse v3.6.4 here

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