I've used Win EQ 2.0 for a while now to play EQ1. I recently took about 5 months off. When I came back I reactivated my Win EQ 2.0 and started playing. My problem is that it does not seem to be helping keep my memory use down, it's like EQ Playnice isn't working. I have 1 1/4 gigs of ram, when I start EQ I have about 760 free. After starting EQ it drops to about 100 free. My system is exactly the same as it used to be but before when running EQ1 with Win EQ 2.0 I would have 300-450 megs free, I could run 2 accounts with no trouble. I don't know wheteher the problem is in my Win EQ 2.0 or if Sony just has changed EQ to use more memory. I even downloaded a new copy of Win EQ and installed it but no change, I also updated Win XP to SP2 because that was recommended but still no help. Attached is the info text. Any help is greatly appreciated, thx.
WinEQ 2 System Information
System:
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Windows Version: Microsoft Windows XP/Service Pack 2/2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
System Physical RAM: 555/1279MB
Page File: 1857/2413MB
Virtual Memory: 1147/2047MB (Extended: 0MB)
CPU 1: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ @ 2000MHz
CPU Affinity Mask: 1
Video 1: \\.\DISPLAY1/NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE
Video 2: \\.\DISPLAYV1/NetMeeting driver
Video 3: \\.\DISPLAYV2/RDPDD Chained DD
Monitor 1: \\.\DISPLAY1 (0,0,1280,1024) (1280x1024) PRIMARY
Sound: C-Media Wave Device
DirectX: 4.09.00.0904
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180
WinEQ: 2.13
Loaded Modules:
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Module 0: D:\Games\EverQuest\eqgame.exe
Module 1: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
Module 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
Module 3: D:\Games\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: D:\Games\EverQuest\DSETUP.dll
Module 16: C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
Module 17: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
Module 18: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
Module 19: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
Module 20: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2180_x-ww_a84f1ff9\comctl32.dll
Module 21: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll
Module 22: D:\Games\WinEQ2\WinEQ2.dll
Module 23: C:\WINDOWS\Lavish.dll
Module 24: C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
Module 25: D:\Games\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-EQ.dll
Module 26: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSIMG32.dll
Module 27: D:\Games\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D9.dll
Module 28: D:\Games\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D8.dll
Module 29: D:\Games\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-DI8.dll
Module 30: C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktopNetwork1.dll
Module 31: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
Module 32: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock.dll
Module 33: C:\WINDOWS\system32\hnetcfg.dll
Module 34: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wshtcpip.dll
Module 35: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll
Module 36: C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll
Module 37: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll
Module 38: C:\Program Files\NewDotNet\newdotnet6_98.dll
Module 39: C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
Module 40: C:\WINDOWS\system32\urlmon.dll
Module 41: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll
Module 42: C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
Module 43: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
Module 44: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.dll
Module 45: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MPR.dll
Module 46: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll
Module 47: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll
Module 48: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll
Module 49: C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
Module 50: D:\Games\WinEQ2\EQPlayNice.dll
Module 51: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll
Module 52: C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL
Module 53: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll
Module 54: D:\Games\EverQuest\EQGraphicsDX9.DLL
Module 55: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll
Module 56: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll
Module 57: D:\Games\EverQuest\dpvs.dll
Module 58: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mslbui.dll
Module 59: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Amhooker.dll
Module 60: C:\Program Files\Netropa\Multimedia Keyboard\nhkdll.dll
Module 61: C:\WINDOWS\system32\usp10.dll
Module 62: C:\WINDOWS\system32\HID.DLL
Module 63: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Apphelp.dll
Module 64: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll
Module 65: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv
Module 66: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv
Module 67: C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll
Module 68: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.DLL
Module 69: C:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll
Module 70: D:\Games\EverQuest\eqmain.dll
Direct3D9:
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Driver: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE/nv4_disp.dll/6/14/10/8195
Adapter Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
Game Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN (Windowed)
Current Adapter: 0
Available Texture Memory: 293MB
Direct3D8:
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Adapter Display Mode: 0x0 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Game Display Mode: 0x0 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN
Current Adapter: 0
Available Texture Memory: (not currently available)
DirectInput8:
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EverQuest:
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Profile 2: Zaxus
EQ Path: D:\Games\EverQuest
EQClient.ini: .\eqclient.ini
Patch: ON Test Server: OFF Locale: us
Video Adapter: Application Controlled
Luclin models: 29 (+145 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: 494MB (BASE+211MB)
Level of Detail: 1
MaxFPS: 100
Additional setting: HardwareTnL=TRUE
Additional setting: VertexShaders=1
Additional setting: 20PixelShaders=1
Additional setting: 1xPixelShaders=1
EQPlayNice:
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EQ Version: eqgame.exe Dec 14 2005 18:09:20
Foreground
Mode: FPS Limiter
Max FPS: 40
Rendering: 1/1
Background
Mode: CPU Limiter
Max FPS: 30
Rendering: 1/30
Memory trouble
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Memory trouble
Zaxus
Paladin of Light and Truth
Officer of Shifted Reality
Druzzil Ro
Paladin of Light and Truth
Officer of Shifted Reality
Druzzil Ro
EQPlayNice and WinEQ 2 do not decrease the amount of RAM EQ sessions use. EQPlayNice decreases CPU usage, which in turn MAY decrease RAM usage but is not the intended purpose or design.
So about the memory usage. You have about 1280MB of RAM, and sysinfo.txt suggests that you are going to use at least 500MB per session just to launch the game past character select. This number can easily be 600MB after zoning in and walking around.
The bottom line is, if you want to launch two EQs with those settings, you have to start with at least twice that requirement before launching EQ. If you only have 760MB free before launching EQ, you just plain wont be able to run two without performance drops, because you'll drain that RAM to 0.
My suggestion is to tweak the settings listed in your paste that increase the RAM usage
So about the memory usage. You have about 1280MB of RAM, and sysinfo.txt suggests that you are going to use at least 500MB per session just to launch the game past character select. This number can easily be 600MB after zoning in and walking around.
The bottom line is, if you want to launch two EQs with those settings, you have to start with at least twice that requirement before launching EQ. If you only have 760MB free before launching EQ, you just plain wont be able to run two without performance drops, because you'll drain that RAM to 0.
My suggestion is to tweak the settings listed in your paste that increase the RAM usage
You can drop some of the worthless luclin models, set sky to normal, and drop texture quality to low.Luclin models: 29 (+145 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: 494MB (BASE+211MB)
KK, thank you for the prompt response, I misunderstood what EQ playnice did. I'll explore further on what to do because I used to easily "2box" with this system. Something has changed, possibly I have background services running that I didn't used to.
Zaxus
Paladin of Light and Truth
Officer of Shifted Reality
Druzzil Ro
Paladin of Light and Truth
Officer of Shifted Reality
Druzzil Ro
Well, assuming you installed 1 or more EQ expansions to be up to date, that's all that needed to happen to increase the memory requirements of EQ (this actually comes up a lot, people will say "i didnt change anything on my system but since coming back from eq 1 year ago i cant 2 box" or after installing the new expansion they cant even launch the 2nd session because it says not enough video memory, etc). Or you may consider closing some of the 500MB of programs you also have open