active window swapping without my consent?

[Freska]

Hello,

I usually play in windowed mode, and I frequently lose control of my character as if Everquest makes the outlandish assumption that I wanted to alt+tab...(my character starts spinning, frame rates drop as if I switched to another window)

Has anyone exerienced this and/or know a workaround? I've mentioned this in-game and was pointed towards that old WinEQ? program... Suggestions?

Thank you,

[Agatha]

eqwindows is pretty much the only way to play EQ, your client will run a whole lot smoother.

[Freska]

Thanks for the suggestion, Agatha~

Do you have an offsite link that I could follow?

[Agatha]

http://www.lavishsoft.com/

you need to register an account on their site as it requires you to log in when you start the program.

[Freska]

Oh, thanks!

So, my guess is that you are talking about WinEQ 2(lite version)? I must try this when I get home...

[Malevz]

Good suggestion, might have to try that too. Nothing like being in the middle of something, or pvping, and you click out of window or drag your window halfway across the house.

[iiNGloriouS]

Originally Posted by Freska [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh, thanks!

So, my guess is that you are talking about WinEQ 2(lite version)? I must try this when I get home...

Yeah the lite version. WinEQ is the shit, can actually use resolutions all the way up to 1920, plus it doesn't do the bug you are talking about, my personal bane was the prevention of alt+tabbing.

[Freska]

Well, downloaded the WinEQ the other day - it was real easy to setup...!

However, I'm still dealing with a rather gamebreaking issue... very frequently, whenever I attempt to right-click to look around or steer my character, my cursor fails to disappear and enter into the 'look mode'.

Thoughts or solutions?

Thank you!

[Kergan]

Sounds like your window is losing focus. What does the cursor look like after it fails to register the mouse look click? Windows style or in-game style?

Anything blinking on your taskbar when this happens? I had a server once that kept hosing up because it had a printer attached and it kept popping up this message saying one of the trays was out of paper, and would pop to the front and hose things up.

[Freska]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sounds like your window is losing focus. What does the cursor look like after it fails to register the mouse look click? Windows style or in-game style?

Anything blinking on your taskbar when this happens? I had a server once that kept hosing up because it had a printer attached and it kept popping up this message saying one of the trays was out of paper, and would pop to the front and hose things up.

Kergan, great diagnoses of my initial issue - but, I'm no longer have trouble with my EQ window losing focus. The cursor maintains the in-game style the whole time... it never reverts to the Windows style as if my active

Other symptoms of this new issue include:

-not being able to reliably hold right click on items to 'inspect' - this is especially aggravating when attempting to loot a corpse, and all I want to do is inspect the item before looting it... but I end up looting it instead!

-not being able to 'mouse turn' without a sudden interruption of the 'mouse look' function of holding right-lick.

At all times, my EQ window maintains focus.

Thanks!