slow motion in game

[fishingme]

Hey, so I have a non dual core laptop and whenever i try to play EQ off of the hard drive that's in it, it goes slow motion like the dual core issue problem. But here's the kicker, whenever i play it off of my external hard drive it's completely fine. I have tried using eqplaynice & wineq2 but neither has helped. Any suggestions other than another external hdd? XD

[cadiz]

That's strange, I'd think the external to be much slower. You should definitely try and rule that out as causal.

Check what speed your drive is operating at, if it's in PIO mode something is wrong with the driver or how the OS sees the drive itself, possibly registering it's capabilities incorrectly.

If it's showing "DMA" or "UDMA" then it's registering itself correctly and should be operating at normal speeds. You can find this by dicking around somewhere in device manager.

You can also test read/write speeds and the settings with something like HD Tune (http://www.hdtune.com/).

[fishingme]

Thanks for the reply, it's running in UDMA mode. I've tried logging in on two different laptops, IBM t42p and t60. Both have the same problem, one has windows xp install while the other has windows 7.

[fishingme]

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