Something isnt right

[postmoderntease0]

I had the exact same problem on my computer. I had a modicum of help when I set the affinity to core 1, but it barely made a huge difference. It got the worst for me when more of the ground or wall textures in any particular zone were occupying my monitor. I had simply resigned myself to never being able to kite (Druid), when one day AVG started running a system scan while I was playing. My game immediately sped up to normal speeds in the exact same areas and camera angles that were causing me to be 'snared.'

I know it sounds insane but I swear it's true. To test it, I cancelled the scan and it immediately went back to the snare-run effect. I then manually started the scan-- voila, my run speed increased.

I thought AVG might be the root cause of the problem, so I went in and manually disabled component states one by one to no avail. None of them being disabled fixed anything. I then entirely uninstalled AVG (I was running 8.5 at the time and thought it might be my version since 9.0 came out), restarted, and the problem persisted-- snared running. Obviously AVG wasn't the cause (and therefore the solution) since it wasn't installed at this point.

I then downloaded/ installed AVG 9, started up EQ: snared running. I opened up the AVG shell applet, manually began a system scan with all options enabled at 'automatic' speed-- bam, my snared running immediately disappeared.

I'm running an intel dual-core laptop with Vista Home Premium, and I wonder if it may be an ACPI setting that's auto-tuning things in ways that don't affect desktops. My computer, although it is a laptop, is *more* than capable of running this game, and I use an extra laptop cooler to ensure it's got plenty of cooling.

Anyway, I just start an AVG scan whenever I'm in game now. The rest of my computer runs a little slowly, like if I want to alt+tab and look something up on the net, but it's more than functional.

My belief is that AVG uses up enough processor that windows relegates it to a separate core, so it has enough processor to do its job. In order to accomplish this, windows then switches some component services that EQ requires over to the same core as EQ, since they were likely running on a different core or a combination of the two (whence the speed up/ slow down effect).

In conclusion, here are my solution steps, if you want to try them:

1. Install AVG free 8.5 or higher (lower may work but these are my only confirmed instances)

2. Set EQ to the correct core affinity in the shortcut (without quotes)- "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 1 c:\progra~1\sony\everquest\eqgame.exe patchme"

3. Open up the AVG shell program and manually begin a system scan at 'automatic' speed, with all options enabled

4. Run EQ from shortcut.

It might not work for you, but it's worth a shot if you've exhausted all other options. Please let us know the results if you (or anyone else) tries this!

[Nedala]

Im playing on a dual core Laptop too i also had some runspeed issued but not as bad as you describe yours.


This fixed it for me:

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1. Right-click the program icon on your desktop or the shortcut on the Start menu for the program you want to run, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Compatibility tab, and change the compatibility settings for your program.

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I played about 5 hours after i did the above change, and i didnt notice any further runspeed issues. Seemed to work.

I also tried wineq2 but this made my runspeed issues totally worse, so i kicked it off my laptop fast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Nomura]

Thank you so much for all the advice. But I still cant seem to do anything to fix it.

I tried c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 1 c:\progra~1\sony\everquest\eqgame.exe patchme" and double-checked the typing. But now when I load EQ, I can an Error, and I am unable to even play. It says;

Error in your GUIXML files. Check UIErrors.text

I have no idea what that could possibly mean.

Secondly, I also tried to set the compatibility, which I had thought I tried before and in fact I have. But for some reason "Compatability modes cannot be set on this program because it is part of this version of Windows." ;/

Please tell me I am just being stupid and did something wrong ;P

[Nedala]

I just told what fixed it for me, im really sorry i cant tell you more im not really experienced in stuff like that, and i know nothing about vista.

Maybe you should just install XP again seems like vista/win7 make a lot of problems [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Thorjorkill]

I've had similiar problems in the past. For some reason this ONLY works fullscreen for me.

First thing I would do is set EQ back to its defaults. 640x480, the whole nine yards.

Then back the horse up. Undo everything you have tried. Everything.

When sitting at the character select screen, hit CTRL+ALT+ESC and bring up task manager. Go to processes tab. Find eqgame.exe, right click it, set affinity...

1) Click on the checkmark <all processors> and it should uncheck everything
2) check CPU 1 only
3) hit ok
4) close task manager
5) ALT-TAB back to EQ and then if not fullscreen, hit ALT+ENTER

Tada!

[Nomura]

I have just encountered an even worse problem: I cant even start the game.


I tried c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 1 c:\progra~1\sony\everquest\eqgame.exe patchme" and double-checked the typing. I fixed the pathing a little, so the cmd prompt at least starts, but then it says that the location cant be found or some BS like that which doesn't make sense.

Anyway, so I just gave and decided I would go back to how I played before, snared lag and all.

I went back to this page: http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...akka=PlayGuide

so that I could reset the path for the Target, under my EQ shortcut Properties. However, it doesn't work. I don't know what I am doing wrong, every time I type it in, or paste it in, case sensitive, etc. I get this message:

The name C:\Program specified in the Target box are not valid. Please check the name and file again.

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[postmoderntease0]

I've noticed there are two postings of yours now where there's an extra " mark at the end of patchme. Make quintouple-sure there are *no* quote marks whatsoever if you use:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 1 C:\progra~1\Sony\EverQuest\eqgame.exe patchme

Also make sure you're *not* typing it in the "Start in" field. I've done that a few times.

If you're trying to test my AVG fix (which, by the way, I've confirmed works when you set it to a 'slow' scan, not only on the 'automatic' setting), you can just delete the eq shortcut and recreate it using the the same steps they have you do in the installation guide for eq emulator. After the game is opened, use the task manager to set the affinity, and that will accomplish the same thing for you. The shortcut mod just makes it so you don't have to use task manager every time you open EQ to set the processor affinity.

If you're doing this on a laptop, I will bet you anything that's why not many others have the same problems-- laptops have different ACPI (power regulation) settings than desktops, even if they have the same 'specs' on paper. This means the voltage for the cores is regulated differently for a laptop than it is for a desktop. I use a laptop, and that's the only logical reason why running an AVG scan is fixing my problem. It obviously has nothing to do with available system resources, or else an AVG scan would just make the problem worse. It's got to be a problem with how the computer thinks it's best to allocate those resources.

If you're running a desktop with these problems, it may have to do with voltage settings in the bios, so compare those against the required voltages listed by your CPU manufacturer.

I can't recall if you've done it but also be quintouple sure you've installed the AMD dual core optimizier thing. If necessary, uninstall it, restart, reinstall it, then restart again (I had to do this for it to work properly on my fiancee's computer).

Let us know what's up! I would love to know if the AVG fix works for someone else!