Possible Way To Run EQ Better On Your Computer

[Fanra]

It made it to the patch! I have not had a chance to test yet...

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.

Here it is:



For those who wish to take advantage of the new way to use all cores outlined in today's patch message:

1. Go to your EverQuest folder (make sure EQ is not running when you do this).
2. Find the file "eqclient.ini" (note that depending on your Windows settings, it may be listed as just "eqclient").
3. Open the file by double clicking on it, that should open it in Notepad or WordPad.
4. Look for the line "CPUAffinity0=0".
5. Change it to "CPUAffinity0=-1".
6. 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.

[Denlar]

Are people seeing an improvement with this change ?

[Malacath]

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
but yeah running it with all cores its alittle more stable for me atleast

[Clawinya]

Are people seeing an improvement with this change ?

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.

[Fanra]

I'm not noticing much difference, but then again I don't have much trouble running EQ in any case.

[Clawinya]

Fanra, my laptop is older, but has been upgrading along the years. It started as an Asus G51vx-rx05, but now sits with 8gbs ram, a t9600, and a 120gb SSD. It SHOULD have run EQ faster than it did prior to the patch, but it actually ran slower after I switched processors. At any rate, I am glad they pushed for the change, it has really made a noticeable difference.

[Neenia]

So in my eqclient.ini file, it had CPUaffinity0=0, CPUaffinity1=1, CPUaffinity2=2.. etc up to 4. Does this mean that it was only trying to run EQ in a portion of the core? I changed all of them to -1 and immediately saw improvement in log in speed, and in eliminated boxing lag.

[Clawinya]

So in my eqclient.ini file, it had CPUaffinity0=0, CPUaffinity1=1, CPUaffinity2=2.. etc up to 4. Does this mean that it was only trying to run EQ in a portion of the core? I changed all of them to -1 and immediately saw improvement in log in speed, and in eliminated boxing lag.

I am going out on a limb here and assuming you have a quad core processor. My eqclient.ini folder only contained CPUaffinity0 and CPUaffinity1 (Core 0 and Core 1 = Dual Core). I would assume yours should look like CPUaffinity0, CPUaffinity1, CPUaffinity2, CPUaffinity3 if you indeed have a quad core, as this is what it would look like in task manager pre windows 8.

Likely you will find as many "CPUaffinity" lines in the ini file as you have physical processor cores. Numbering starts at 0 and ends at the number of cores minus 1.