WinEQ 2.05 Pro issues

[Taekwondo]

OK, I thoroughly enjoyed 1.38, it was by far the best multi-windowed utility I have used, even with the minor issues it had. 2.05 however, is still giving me some heartburn. I waited quite a while after the beta for it to attempt to use it (since I had some serious issues with loading games etc. during beta) but now, while I can actually get EQ to come up, my framerate is absolutely terrible. I have tried shutting down all unnecessary background stuff, rebooting, reloading, re-patching, running WinEQ 1.38 first even. Nothing seems to help. I would go back to WinEQ 1.38 but it seems to be having the same type of issues now, I have been running EQPlayNice with the SOE-based multi-window EQ session and I don't seem to have many problems, but I would really prefer to be able to use WinEQ 2.05. Here's my SysInfo.txt:

WinEQ 2 System Information
System:
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Windows Version: Microsoft Windows XP/Service Pack 2/2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158
System Physical RAM: 607/1023MB
Page File: 1402/1696MB
Virtual Memory: 1110/2047MB (Extended: 0MB)
CPU 1: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ @ 2131MHz
Video 1: \\.\DISPLAY1/NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Video 2: \\.\DISPLAY2/NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Video 3: \\.\DISPLAYV1/NetMeeting driver
Video 4: \\.\DISPLAYV2/RDPDD Chained DD
Monitor 1: \\.\DISPLAY1 (0,0,1024,768) (1024x768) PRIMARY
Sound: Emu10Kx Audio [A000]
DirectX: 4.09.00.0904
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180
WinEQ: 2.05

Loaded Modules:
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Module 0: C:\Program Files\EverQuest\eqgame.exe
Module 1: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
Module 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
Module 3: C:\Program Files\EverQuest\mss32.dll
Module 4: C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
Module 5: C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
Module 6: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll
Module 7: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
Module 8: C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
Module 9: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll
Module 10: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
Module 11: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
Module 12: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll
Module 13: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DINPUT8.dll
Module 14: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.dll
Module 15: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
Module 16: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
Module 17: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
Module 18: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2180_x-ww_a84f1ff9\comctl32.dll
Module 19: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll
Module 20: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2.dll
Module 21: C:\WINDOWS\Lavish.dll
Module 22: C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
Module 23: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-EQ.dll
Module 24: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSIMG32.dll
Module 25: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D9.dll
Module 26: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D8.dll
Module 27: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-DI8.dll
Module 28: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock.dll
Module 29: C:\WINDOWS\system32\hnetcfg.dll
Module 30: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wshtcpip.dll
Module 31: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll
Module 32: C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll
Module 33: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll
Module 34: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll
Module 35: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\EQPlayNice.dll
Module 36: C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL
Module 37: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll
Module 38: C:\Program Files\EverQuest\EQGraphicsDX9.DLL
Module 39: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll
Module 40: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll
Module 41: C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
Module 42: C:\Program Files\EverQuest\dpvs.dll
Module 43: C:\PROGRA~1\PANICW~1\POP-UP~1\XAHook.dll
Module 44: C:\WINDOWS\system32\HID.DLL
Module 45: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.DLL
Module 46: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll
Module 47: C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
Module 48: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
Module 49: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll
Module 50: C:\WINDOWS\system32\usp10.dll
Module 51: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll
Module 52: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv
Module 53: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv
Module 54: C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll
Module 55: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.DLL
Module 56: C:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll
Module 57: C:\Program Files\EverQuest\eqmain.dll

Direct3D9:
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Driver: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600/nv4_disp.dll/6/14/10/6177
Adapter Display Mode: 1024x768 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
Game Display Mode: 1024x768 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Current Adapter: 0

Direct3D8:
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Adapter Display Mode: 0x0 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Game Display Mode: 0x0 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Current Adapter: 0

DirectInput8:
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EverQuest:
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Profile 1: WinEQ 2.0 Default Profile
EQ Path: C:\Program Files\EverQuest
EQClient.ini: .\eqclient.ini
Patch: OFF Test Server: OFF Locale: us
Video Adapter: Primary
Luclin models: 29 (+145 min RAM)
Texture Compression: ON (+0 min RAM)
MipMapping: ON (+4 min RAM)
Sound: ON (+22 min RAM)
Dynamic Lighting: ON (+4 min RAM)
Texture Caching: ON (+0 min RAM)
Texture Quality: MEDIUM (+30 min RAM)
Sky: COMPLEX (+10 min RAM)
Calculated minimum RAM: 498MB (BASE+215MB)
Level of Detail: 1
MaxFPS: 100
Additional setting: VertexShaders=TRUE
Additional setting: 20PixelShaders=0
Additional setting: 1xPixelShaders=TRUE

EQPlayNice:
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EQ Version: eqgame.exe Oct 11 2004 15:21:50
Foreground
Mode: FPS Limiter
Max FPS: 40
Rendering: 1/1
Background
Mode: CPU Limiter
Max FPS: 30
Rendering: 1/30

Thanks for any help!

~Taekwondo

[Lax]

Hmmm.. the only things I can think of as far as horrible framerate are a) drivers, and b) omens of war (people turn off vertex shaders in OOW to reduce lag, but of course with NVIDIA you need them on or EQ crashes).

Here's my suggestions, perhaps I can come up with more if necessary
1) Your drivers are version 61.77, and NVIDIA put out new drivers last month that are version 66.93 (now forceware instead of detonator). See if those help you
2) I do see that your EQ settings are pretty close to maximum. Have you tried lowering them to see if that helps?
3) If you get this lag issue even when single boxing, try running the Inner Space alpha. See if you have the same lag issue using that.
4) WinEQ detects your sound as Emu10Kx. From what I can gather, this may actually be an Audigy card? Mine have always shown up as Audigy (it could be another Emu10Kx-based card of course). Have you tried disabling sound? Is there an upddated driver you can use?