It looks like this will be added to EQ in the next patch (or at least soon):
https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/i...-11-13.200777/
- Added the ability for EQ to set its affinity to all cores when starting up.
It looks like this will be added to EQ in the next patch (or at least soon):
https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/i...-11-13.200777/
- Added the ability for EQ to set its affinity to all cores when starting up.
Fanra - 125 Hobbit Druid Semper Brevis! W.E.T.S.U. "Donkey, you have the right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity." - Shrek
awesome.
It made it to the patch! I have not had a chance to test yet...
"Added the ability for EQ to set its affinity to all cores when starting up. This can be done by modifying the eqclient.ini value for the instance to -1. For example, to set your second instance of EQ to run on all cores add "CPUAffinity1=-1" to the [Defaults] section of eqclient.ini. Note: if this causes problems for you, please report the issue in /bug and change the CPUAffinity value back to the value it was before you changed it."
In the raid we have Jesus in robes who can shoot lightening bolts out of his eyes and summon sharks with freakin lazer beams compared to Lluke who barely can walk and chew gum but can throw a dagger or two and splash the raid. Lluke is waiting patiently on the wait list while the raid engages. The raid engages and multiple times through the event Jesus pulls aggro resulting in mob resets, raid wipes, and or fails to stop DPSing when requested. Now, Jesus is decimating the rest of the guild DPS wise; his sharks are pew pewing anything and everything but due to resets, the event has not been beaten. The RLs decide that even though Jesus is God's gift to humanity and in this case DPS, he can't control his aggro and ultimately a considerable cause of failure so they decide to replace Jesus with Lluke. Lluke comes in, does his 10 DPS, and after 30 mins the raid wins. - Vtull
Yeah, I thought I had made a post about that and how to do it, but it got lost somehow. The forum software did save it somewhere and I just found it.Originally Posted by Clawinya
Here it is:
For those who wish to take advantage of the new way to use all cores outlined in today's patch message:
- Go to your EverQuest folder (make sure EQ is not running when you do this).
- Find the file "eqclient.ini" (note that depending on your Windows settings, it may be listed as just "eqclient").
- Open the file by double clicking on it, that should open it in Notepad or WordPad.
- Look for the line "CPUAffinity0=0".
- Change it to "CPUAffinity0=-1".
- Close Notepad / WordPad, choosing to save the file when asked.
If you multi box, you can also look for and change "CPUAffinity1=0" to "CPUAffinity1=-1". Also look for other CPUAffinityx lines and change them.
Fanra - 125 Hobbit Druid Semper Brevis! W.E.T.S.U.
Are people seeing an improvement with this change ?
seeing as i used to manualy set the cores every time i started eq i'd say not me j/k
Are people seeing an improvement with this change ?
but yeah running it with all cores its alittle more stable for me atleast
Definitely! Zoning and loading times are night and day difference. Since I didn't make the changes for multi boxing (I assumed it was the same procedure, but Fanra has the fix) I can tell the difference from loading times for the primary box (with both cores active) and the second and/or third boxes (Just core 0 running) and its just under twice as fast. You can verify this yourself with a number of free programs. I used CoreTemp to monitor the load on each core while switching between the first instance of EQ vs. the second. Windows 8's task manager unfortunately merged the cpu performance graphs into one, making it difficult to see what each core is doing.
In the raid we have Jesus in robes who can shoot lightening bolts out of his eyes and summon sharks with freakin lazer beams compared to Lluke who barely can walk and chew gum but can throw a dagger or two and splash the raid. Lluke is waiting patiently on the wait list while the raid engages. The raid engages and multiple times through the event Jesus pulls aggro resulting in mob resets, raid wipes, and or fails to stop DPSing when requested. Now, Jesus is decimating the rest of the guild DPS wise; his sharks are pew pewing anything and everything but due to resets, the event has not been beaten. The RLs decide that even though Jesus is God's gift to humanity and in this case DPS, he can't control his aggro and ultimately a considerable cause of failure so they decide to replace Jesus with Lluke. Lluke comes in, does his 10 DPS, and after 30 mins the raid wins. - Vtull
I'm not noticing much difference, but then again I don't have much trouble running EQ in any case.
Fanra - 125 Hobbit Druid Semper Brevis! W.E.T.S.U.
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