Very bad lag while 2 Boxing

Trashfiash · Post by **Trashfiash** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:34 am

I have not tried to 2box since DoD was released till today (play EQ1 btw). But I open and run WinEQ 2.0 everyday even when not boxing. It seems to be using much more ram than it ever has before. Iv'e read the MB on this ram problem but seems like patches have fixed all the ones I seen. When I 2Box now it lags so bad it isn't even playable.

I hope I haven't missed the fix on the MB some where. Thank in advance for your help.

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: 1296/2303MB
Page File: 2427/3304MB
Virtual Memory: 1921/2047MB (Extended: 0MB)
CPU 1: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ @ 1531MHz
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 (0,0,1024,768) (1024x768) PRIMARY
Sound: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
DirectX: 4.09.00.0904
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180
WinEQ: 2.12

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:\Program Files\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: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2.dll
Module 23: C:\WINDOWS\Lavish.dll
Module 24: C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
Module 25: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-EQ.dll
Module 26: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSIMG32.dll
Module 27: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D9.dll
Module 28: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D8.dll
Module 29: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-DI8.dll
Module 30: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock.dll
Module 31: C:\WINDOWS\system32\hnetcfg.dll
Module 32: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wshtcpip.dll
Module 33: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll
Module 34: C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll
Module 35: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll
Module 36: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll
Module 37: C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
Module 38: C:\Program Files\WinEQ2\EQPlayNice.dll
Module 39: C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL
Module 40: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll
Module 41: C:\Program Files\Everquest\EQGraphicsDX9.DLL
Module 42: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll
Module 43: C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll
Module 44: C:\Program Files\Everquest\dpvs.dll
Module 45: C:\WINDOWS\system32\usp10.dll
Module 46: C:\WINDOWS\system32\HID.DLL
Module 47: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.DLL
Module 48: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll
Module 49: C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
Module 50: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
Module 51: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll
Module 52: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssmp3.asi
Module 53: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssvoice.asi
Module 54: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssa3d.m3d
Module 55: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssds3d.m3d
Module 56: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssdx7.m3d
Module 57: C:\Program Files\Everquest\msseax.m3d
Module 58: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssrsx.m3d
Module 59: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll
Module 60: C:\Program Files\Everquest\msssoft.m3d
Module 61: C:\Program Files\Everquest\mssdsp.flt
Module 62: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv
Module 63: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv
Module 64: C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll
Module 65: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.DLL
Module 66: C:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll

Direct3D9:
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Driver: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE/nv4_disp.dll/6/14/10/7189
Adapter Display Mode: 1024x768 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
Game Display Mode: 1024x768 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
Current Adapter: 0
Available Texture Memory: 379MB
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 1: WinEQ 2.0 Default Profile
EQ Path: C:\Program Files\Everquest
EQClient.ini: .\eqclient.ini
Patch: ON Test Server: OFF Locale: us
Video Adapter: Application Controlled
Luclin models: 7 (+35 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)
Calculated minimum RAM: 378MB (BASE+95MB)
Level of Detail: 1
MaxFPS: 60
Additional setting: HardwareTnL=TRUE
Additional setting: VertexShaders=0
Additional setting: 20PixelShaders=0
Additional setting: 1xPixelShaders=0

EQPlayNice:
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EQ Version: eqgame.exe Oct 10 2005 17:02:52
Foreground
Mode: FPS Limiter
Max FPS: 40
Rendering: 1/1
Background
Mode: CPU Limiter
Max FPS: 30
Rendering: 1/30

Trashfiash · Post by **Trashfiash** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:38 am

System RAM Available is around 1328/2303MB (58%), Drops down to about 28%ish when I try to 2box. Before I used to run in the high70's low 80's running just one acct. Hope that helped some.

Trashfiash · Post by **Trashfiash** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:12 am

Any suggestions for this Lax ?

Post by **Lax** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:20 am

Unfortunately no, everything in your information looks pretty normal. The only thing I would suggest doing differently is setting EQ's own FPS limiter to 100 since you're using EQPlayNice, but I'm not sure that would make much of a difference.

As far as RAM usage, from what I hear EQ recently takes up a bunch of extra memory right away, but then frees it up. You should check the task manager to see how much memory EQ is actually using. If you think this is a WinEQ problem, you should try running without WinEQ and doing the same things you normally do and see if it behaves differently

N1hilist · Post by **N1hilist** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:14 pm

Lax wrote:As far as RAM usage, from what I hear EQ recently takes up a bunch of extra memory right away, but then frees it up.

I can confirm this as well. Dual boxing on my system at startup takes about 90% of my physical ram. After being in the game for about 10 minutes it drops down to 70%