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my character after aboout 45 minutes of play freezes and does not move at all but when pressing forward or backwards appears to glide over the game.. I usually have to log and relog the game to fix and again will happen.. I have an Nvidea 8600 duo core processor and 2 megs of ram... any suggestions.. I have un installed and reinstalled the game several times to rule out software issues.. any suggestions...

My first inclination is to say that 2 megs of ram won't get you very far :D

Now that I've had my fun, I know your problem. EQ doesn't like dual cores. Luckily, all is not lost. Follow my (hopefully) easy to understand directions, and your problems will cease.

1st, start up the EQ patcher. While the patcher is running, press ctrl+alt+del and open the task manager. switch to the processes tab, and look for the eq process. Typically, it's eqgame.exe or everquest.exe, depending on how your shortcut is set up. Right-click that process, and choose Set Affinity... Pick one core or the other (which one doesn't matter particularly.) ONce you've done that, start EQ. Camp out, then re-run the patcher, go back into task manager, and check that the affinity change stayed put. If it did, voila, you're golden.

Now, for the why. Everquest doesn't know dual cores. Dual core operating systems like to move processes back and forth between the cores to get the most use out of the available processor bandwidth. Unfortunately, when EQ gets swapped back and forth, it loses its synchronization with the video card drivers. Hence the screwy animations.

Bump again, cause I am tto stupid to find this easily.

Oh, man that would make it easier Thanks Elinda

Thanks for the help Elosia, my Duel-Core problem was that when my toon was in a group even with SOW only on my toon everyone would look like they were walking slow but would run off into the distance and they would have to wait for me to catch up.

Edited, Jul 22nd 2007 12:28pm by Tormentor