How To Install - 2025 Edition

[Nasheed]

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

4GB patch
Allows 32-bit applications to use 4GB of RAM instead of only 2GB.
[LIST=1][*]Unzip 4gb_patch.zip[*]Run 4gb_patch.exe, select eqgame.exe in “C:\Apps\EQP99”.

After installing the 4gb patch i logged in and out of 4 different accounts and 30+ chars and then played the game all day and did not crash once, without it i crash every other logout. I also tested it on the qeynos zoneline and zoned in and out of north qeynos 20+ times not a single crash.

The 4gb patch makes my game beyond stable, if i remove it i crash on qeynos zone 50/50 and every other logout.

I have a rtx 3070 GPU and a ryzen 7 3700x CPU incase that matters. I also have dgvoodoo with custom texture packs installed and i run the game in compatibility mode.

[Ekco]

noticeable improvement for me as well, rtx 3060 ryzen 5 9600X

windows 11 didn't like the midi driver apparently, i had to reinstall it today

and haven't installed 4gb patch or midi driver in linux yet, i was crashing a lot switching characters there so i assume lowering it to 4gig vram will fix that because i had it set to the highest possible in Lutris iirc

[roguep1999]

bump

[Enanon]

wow i didnt do anything of this, lets check how it goes! thanks for the effor!

[Blap]

didnt know about 4Go patch, thanks ! this is a very usefull thread

[BadNewsBear]

Can you please post the install portion again? I followed the instructions step by step in the current wiki guide and for some reason the Launch Titanium keeps giving me the error message "windows cannot find eqgame"

[charleski]

To use Everquest with a utility that forces borderless windows (I use SmartContextMenu), go to DirectX tab of dgVoodoocpl and make sure 'Disable Alt-Enter to toggle screen state' is checked.

In nvidiaProfileInspector, make sure antialiasing is turned OFF in the Everquest profile. Otherwise text will be unacceptably blurry.

[Delfofthebla]

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

To use Everquest with a utility that forces borderless windows (I use SmartContextMenu), go to DirectX tab of dgVoodoocpl and make sure 'Disable Alt-Enter to toggle screen state' is checked.

In nvidiaProfileInspector, make sure antialiasing is turned OFF in the Everquest profile. Otherwise text will be unacceptably blurry.

How did you manage to fix the issue with borderless windowed where your mouse clicks are "offset" by small amounts? It makes interacting with the UI absolutely horrendous for me. If I use WinEQ2 instead of dgVoodoo it doesn't have this problem, but then I crash like crazy. And they don't work together, so ideally I'd just find a way to fix this on the dgVoodoo side.

[charleski]

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

How did you manage to fix the issue with borderless windowed where your mouse clicks are "offset" by small amounts? It makes interacting with the UI absolutely horrendous for me. If I use WinEQ2 instead of dgVoodoo it doesn't have this problem, but then I crash like crazy. And they don't work together, so ideally I'd just find a way to fix this on the dgVoodoo side.

The following only applies to SmartContextMenu, other utilities may differ. When it makes the window borderless it actually shifts the graphic display up and expands it below to compensate for the border. The fix is to resize the window after setting it to borderless. I resize to 1920x1160 which allows the task bar to appear below without overlapping the game window (and set the same size for the game in eqclient.ini). You can specify a custom window size in SCM that will show up in the ‘Resize Window’ menu by editing <user name>/appData/Roaming/SmartContextMenu/1.7.0/smartcontextmenu.xml

[Delfofthebla]

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

The following only applies to SmartContextMenu, other utilities may differ. When it makes the window borderless it actually shifts the graphic display up and expands it below to compensate for the border. The fix is to resize the window after setting it to borderless. I resize to 1920x1160 which allows the task bar to appear below without overlapping the game window (and set the same size for the game in eqclient.ini). You can specify a custom window size in SCM that will show up in the ‘Resize Window’ menu by editing <user name>/appData/Roaming/SmartContextMenu/1.7.0/smartcontextmenu.xml

Ah, so it isn't a true borderless window. Since the "borderless" resolution does not differ from the actual windowed resolution, it probably doesn't generate the issue. Damn.

I tried SmartContextMenu (along with every other borderless tool under the sun) and I was unable to fix the issue when going for a true borderless experience.