Slow Unplayableness

[Seducio]

Hey all,

I've been playing the game for over a year and a half with very little technical issues.

Lately, P1999 has become unplayable for me as everything in the game including my character moves at a snails pace w/ lots of warping.

I think this is a setting issue, but can't track down what it is that I may accidently have changed.

I'm running a Core2Duo processor on a U330 Lenovo Laptop with 2GB of memory and searches are telling me I may have an processor affinity problem, but like I said I haven't had this problem at all in the first year and a half I played. Only in the last couple of days has it been this unplayable.

One thing that may help to diagnose this issue is that the slowness happens even at character select screen. It takes my toons there a LONG time to even swing their weapon.

Any thoughts on where to begin fixing this issue would be really appreciated.

[Honest]

I had this same issue on my laptop. Played several months with no issues then it just started happening. It appeared as if I were running under water. I tried doing all the different affinity settings and couldn't figure out how to fix. What eventually did it for me was going into power options and setting processor to 50%. At least it worked for me.

[fishingme]

Oh lenova laptops XD I had the same problem (i got a bunch of lenovo and ibm laptops). What had worked for me was having youtube playlist on my browser running. Also, what had worked was putting EQ on a thumb drive/external hard drive.

[Seducio]

The youtube suggestion worked. Just opened a video in firefox while playing and everything is back to normal speed.

I don't know why.... never needed to do it before.

For now it's a good bandaid since I don't know what the problem is.

[fishingme]

The youtube suggestion worked. Just opened a video in firefox while playing and everything is back to normal speed.

I don't know why.... never needed to do it before.

For now it's a good bandaid since I don't know what the problem is.

I never figured it out, didn't really care because I listen to my youtube playlist all the time

[Hailto]

Sounds like something is causing your processor to throttle down, most likely something in your power settings.

[fishingme]

Sounds like something is causing your processor to throttle down, most likely something in your power settings.

Not sure if that would work for him. I switched all the power settings on my laptop and never had any difference

[Seducio]

^ This.

The power settings aren't affecting anything that I can tell... Although I do have a suspicion that a faulty battery may be at play. I haven't changed out the battery since purchasing the laptop in Fall of '09 and it doesn't retain a charge for more than 10 min now.

Nonetheless, even though I haven't figured out the exact problem other than like an earlier post said simply "my real problem is I have a Lenovo." Other manufacturers don't seem to be having this processor throttling problem.

On the other hand for now the youtube bandaid is better than buying a whole new system.

Thanks, fishingme for your help and thanks to the others for your suggestions as well.

[joppykid]

Does your graphics card need an update? I had this same issue and that fixed it for me.

[Peekae]

If using a laptop also check your heat . The thermal paste getting old/ dust buildup can cause otherwise fine laptops do start to overheat as time goes on

[Variant]

I have recently run across this issue as well. It is clearly not connected to the laptop vendor, I have a couple of HP laptops that were affected. By the looks of it, the client is confused about the CPU clock speed.
I have not determined the exact cause of the issue, but I have determined that replacing the eqclient.ini file will resolve the problem on my systems. My first laptop was repaired by a complete re-installation (after deleting the
/Program Files/Sony/Everquest folder completely) of the titanium client. Using a little backtracking got me to the eqclient.ini file, and I can either swap in the new file and see the problem, or swap in the old one and play normally.
If I get ambitious later, I may try to track down exactly what is going wrong, but for now, here is my working eqclient.ini, if you have the problem and want to try swapping it in. Good luck, and good hunting.

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[Bamzal Sherbet]

paste the broken one too, i will diffmerge and show the differences

[Variant]

Note, though, that I had done some changes that ended up going into this file in an effort to find this problem, so there may be some unrelated diffs :-( . Apologies for that. On a trip atm, so I don't have access to my Linux system, so appreciate the diff - thanks!

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Camera1-Change=1
Camera2-Distance=82.000000
Camera2-DirHeading=277.000000
Camera2-Heading=0.000000
Camera2-Pitch=0.000000
Camera2-Height=18.000000
Camera2-Zoom=90.000000
Camera2-Change=1
Realism=1
ClipPlane=18
FogScale=3.600000
MaxFPS=60
LODBias=10
MouseSensitivity=7
Anonymous=0
Trade=2
GuildInvites=1
Sky=1
ParticleDensity=3
LoD=1
SameResolution=1
PCNames=1
NPCNames=1
InverseMouse=0
LookSpring=0
MouseActive=1
Destroy=0
AANoConfirm=0
pointMerchantNoConfirm=0
MouseWheelZoom=1
MouseRightHanded=1
LoadScreenMode=1
Channel00=1
Channel01=1
Channel02=1
Channel03=1
Channel04=1
Channel05=1
BadWord=0
PCSpells=1
NPCSpells=0
BardSongs=1
CriticalSpells=0
CriticalMelee=0
SpellDamage=0
Channel06=1
Channel07=0
Channel08=1
Channel09=0
HideDamageShield=0
DotDamage=0
PetAttacks=0
PetMisses=1
FocusEffects=0
PetSpells=0
HealOverTimeSpells=0
ItemSpeech=0
Strikethrough=0
Stun=0
SwarmPetDeath=0
Ignore00=
Ignore01=
Ignore02=
Ignore03=
Ignore04=
Ignore05=
Ignore06=
Ignore07=
Ignore08=
Ignore09=
Ignore10=
Ignore11=
Ignore12=
Ignore13=
Ignore14=
Ignore15=
Ignore16=
Ignore17=
Ignore18=
Ignore19=
Friend00=
Friend01=
Friend02=
Friend03=
Friend04=
Friend05=
Friend06=
Friend07=
Friend08=
Friend09=
Friend10=
Friend11=
Friend12=
Friend13=
Friend14=
Friend15=
Friend16=
Friend17=
Friend18=
Friend19=
[VideoMode]
WindowedWidth=1024
WindowedHeight=768
Width=1024
Height=768
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0
WidthWindowed=1024
HeightWindowed=768
[News]
LastRead=4353C3FE
Automatic=0
[KeyMaps]
KEYMAPPING_CYCLENPCTARGETS_1=59
KEYMAPPING_TARGETNPC_2=0
KEYMAPPING_TARGETNPC_1=41
KEYMAPPING_PARTY1_1=0
KEYMAPPING_TARGETME_1=0

[Bamzal Sherbet]

The differences are listed below.
Left column is using the broken file.
Tabbed beside it is the value from the working file.

Ones listed as NA dont even exist in the working file. Which leads me to believe that the working file is from an earlier client (Not Titanium).

(NOTE: FALSE same as 0, and TRUE same as 1)

I have bolded the ones that I think may have an impact on your issue, but not sure...

Broken Working
TextureQuality=2 1
VertexShaders=0 1
20PixelShaders=0 1
14PixelShaders=0 1
1xPixelShaders=0 1
InspectOthers=FALSE 1
ShowDynamicLights=FALSE 1
NetStat=TRUE 0
LoadSocialAnimations=FALSE 1
UseLuclinVahShirMale=FALSE 1
UseLuclinVahShirFemale=FALSE 1
UseLuclinElementals=FALSE 1
LoadArmor17=FALSE NA
LoadArmor18=FALSE NA
LoadArmor19=FALSE NA
LoadArmor20=FALSE NA
LoadArmor21=FALSE NA
LoadArmor22=FALSE NA
LoadArmor23=FALSE NA
ShowCreationHelp=FALSE NA
Gamma=20 11
WindowedModeXOffset=328 0
WindowedModeYOffset=65 0
AllLuclinPcModelsOff=FALSE NA
UseLuclinHumanMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinHumanFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinBarbarianMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinBarbarianFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinEruditeMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinEruditeFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinWoodElfMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinWoodElfFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinHighElfMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinHighElfFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinDarkElfMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinDarkElfFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinHalfElfMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinHalfElfFemale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinDwarfMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinDwarfFemale=FALSE NA
UseLuclinTrollMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinTrollFemale=FALSE NA
UseLuclinOgreMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinOgreFemale=FALSE NA
UseLuclinHalflingMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinHalflingFemale=FALSE NA
UseLuclinGnomeMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinGnomeFemale=FALSE NA
UseLuclinIksarMale=TRUE NA
UseLuclinIksarFemale=FALSE NA
LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=FALSE NA
SpellParticleDensity=0.250000 NA
SpellParticleNearClipPlane=2.000000 NA
SpellParticleCastFilter=2 NA
EnvironmentParticleDensity=0.250000 NA
EnvironmentParticleNearClipPlane=4.000000 NA
EnvironmentParticleCastFilter=24 NA
ActorParticleDensity=0.250000 NA
ActorParticleNearClipPlane=2.000000 NA
ActorParticleCastFilter=24 NA
AllowAutoDuck=0 NA
ScreenshotNumber=12 NA
CharCreateRotateOn=0 NA
SkyUpdateInterval=60000 NA
UseD3DTextureCompression=FALSE NA
MipMapping=FALSE NA
TextureCache=FALSE NA
ClipPlane=18 15
FogScale=3.600000 3
MaxFPS=60 100
MouseSensitivity=7 4
Anonymous=0 NA
Trade=2 NA
GuildInvites=1 NA
Sky=1 NA
ParticleDensity=3 NA
LoD=1 NA
SameResolution=1 NA
PCNames=1 NA
NPCNames=1 NA
InverseMouse=0 NA
LookSpring=0 NA
MouseActive=1 NA
Destroy=0 NA
AANoConfirm=0 NA
pointMerchantNoConfirm=0 NA
MouseWheelZoom=1 NA
MouseRightHanded=1 NA
LoadScreenMode=1 NA
Channel00=1 NA
Channel01=1 NA
Channel02=1 NA
Channel03=1 NA
Channel04=1 NA
Channel05=1 NA
BadWord=0 NA
PCSpells=1 NA
NPCSpells=0 NA
BardSongs=1 NA
CriticalSpells=0 NA
CriticalMelee=0 NA
SpellDamage=0 NA
Channel06=1 NA
Channel07=0 NA
Channel08=1 NA
Channel09=0 NA
HideDamageShield=0 NA
DotDamage=0 NA
PetAttacks=0 NA
PetMisses=1 NA
FocusEffects=0 NA
PetSpells=0 NA
HealOverTimeSpells=0 NA
ItemSpeech=0 NA
Strikethrough=0 NA
Stun=0 NA
SwarmPetDeath=0 NA
Ignore00= NA
Ignore01= NA
Ignore02= NA
Ignore03= NA
Ignore04= NA
Ignore05= NA
Ignore06= NA
Ignore07= NA
Ignore08= NA
Ignore09= NA
Ignore10= NA
Ignore11= NA
Ignore12= NA
Ignore13= NA
Ignore14= NA
Ignore15= NA
Ignore16= NA
Ignore17= NA
Ignore18= NA
Ignore19= NA
Friend00= NA
Friend01= NA
Friend02= NA
Friend03= NA
Friend04= NA
Friend05= NA
Friend06= NA
Friend07= NA
Friend08= NA
Friend09= NA
Friend10= NA
Friend11= NA
Friend12= NA
Friend13= NA
Friend14= NA
Friend15= NA
Friend16= NA
Friend17= NA
Friend18= NA
Friend19= NA
WindowedWidth=1024 1280
WindowedHeight=768 1024
Width=1024 1280
Height=768 1024
WidthWindowed=1024 NA
HeightWindowed=768 NA

[Variant]

So - first off, everything you see in the files I sent was from Titanium based clients that work with P1999. The trick is that a number of items will only appear if you go to the respective menus and fiddle with them. I suppose that otherwise, they are left unspecified in the .ini file and defaulted in the code some other way.

However, I found the value that you can adjust if you are having the problem that is the subject of this thread ... look for a line in the eqclient.ini file that specifies MaxFPS. I draw the line at testing to see which values will work and which won't - I want to play :-) . I can tell you that I got my system working properly (wrt the display speed) by setting:

MaxFPS=100

For some reason, I had 60 in there, and 60 apparently no longer works. There must have been a code change or such in one of the patches that caused issue with the way MaxFPS is used - some math bug would be my guess.

Bottom line, if you have the problem, go to eqclient.ini, set MaxFPS=100, and see if your problem goes away - and someone else please verify in the thread whether that solves their issue.

Good hunting!

[Bamzal Sherbet]

ah thats good to hear, glad i could help.

I had this same issue on my laptop. Played several months with no issues then it just started happening. It appeared as if I were running under water. I tried doing all the different affinity settings and couldn't figure out how to fix. What eventually did it for me was going into power options and setting processor to 50%. At least it worked for me.

see if the above fix also works for you