[draogan]

I haven't played live since 2002, so I'm hardly an expert -- but certainly PC runspeed with respect to mob runspeed doesn't seem to be messed up. I can outrun normal speed mobs with strafe running, or with normal running and jumping using hilly terrain. That's the same as I remember from live, if not actually slightly better (I don't think strafe running was as reliable on live, or at least I don't remember it being so).

That said, haven't tried any "specific" spots like the water in Cab. Though as others have pointed out, EQ is notorious for having messed up game mechanics due to player-side problems.

As a sidenote, I have to turn my maxfps down to ~40 in P99 to avoid crashing (some error with my video card I have yet to figure out). Try turning down your framerate and see if there's a difference? EQLive used to be buggy (esp w/ regard to horses) that lower framerates would run faster.