Cant get past character select, sometimes.
 

Hi,

My game just randomly stopped working correctly. I can only log in sometimes, I can log in once and zone around OK but if I log off and try to log back in or to another character it wont work anymore. Logging in and getting to character select works 100% of the time for this account and others.

I attempted to fix my old install; redid V60 and dgvoodoo. Archived the Logs dir. Removed UI files and folder. I did a fresh install with same results of just using V60 files. I busted out WinEQ2, same results on old and new install directories. I updated my graphics driver, clean install. I removed my anti-virus and ensured Defender still had exclusion list with EQ folder for private/public domains. I ran the Options configuration for Everquest to reset settings. I changed the resolution window back to 800x600 for windowed and full screen in eqclient.ini.

I'm running eggame.exe with the standard "start eqgame patchme" at WinXP SP2 as well as a more advanced bat file for balancing which single core is used to help address CPU affinity further with "CPUAffinity0=-1" in eqclient.ini

@@ECHO OFF

REM This only works up to Minimum of 1 and Maximum of 8 Cores
REM It picks a random CPU core between 1 and the Maximum and runs Everquest on that CPU core

setlocal
SET _AppFolder=C:\EverQuest99
SET _AppName=EVERQUEST
SET _AppEXE=eqgame.exe
SET _AppParams=patchme
SET /a _MaxCPU=12
SET /a _rand=%RANDOM%*%_MaxCPU%/32768+1
SET _affinity=0x01
IF %_rand% EQU 2 SET _affinity=0x02
IF %_rand% EQU 3 SET _affinity=0x04
IF %_rand% EQU 4 SET _affinity=0x08
IF %_rand% EQU 5 SET _affinity=0x10
IF %_rand% EQU 6 SET _affinity=0x20
IF %_rand% EQU 7 SET _affinity=0x40
IF %_rand% EQU 8 SET _affinity=0x80

cmd.exe /c start "%_AppName%" /affinity %_affinity% "%_AppFolder%\%_AppEXE%" %_AppParams%
endlocal

The only thing that changed was my modem and router. I was playing 1/1/25 perfectly OK, I then was playing Rust from 1/2-1/5, I can back for the first time after the modem replacement 1/6 and encountered this nonsense.

Any further suggestions?

Playing on tethered connection, issue goes away 100%, leading back to ISP modem and router exchange.

Issue resolved.