Major Slowdown for scripts on a brand new PC : EverQuest 2 Premium Discussions

I just purchased a brand new, high end PC (Intel 3.2, 2mb Ram, etc, etc) and I installed XUnleashed.

I just tried running my EQ2Harvesterv01.00 script and I am having major performance problems. It is taking as long as 6-10 secs to do a mobdb update, whereas on my other PC's, it takes about 1 sec.

Is there something I need to do to fix this?

Thanks!

Try this: Press CTRL-ALT-DEL , go to processess tab, Righ-Click EverQuest2.exe and choose (dont know the correct english word here , help me someone, but its something like this) Chose CPU, UN-check CPU 0 and let CPU 1 remain checked.

If screen turns black, do it again but UN-check CPU 1 instead of CPU 0.

That should resolve the slowdown of the scripts. You probably run them on an AMD machine earlier, they do not have this problem.

Hope that works for ya.

//benrangel

ya you need to set it to single processor affinity for systems with hyperthreading

Well I am running on an AMD machine and I am having the same issue. SUPER slow script execution.

I have he following .. maybe there is a known issue with something

AMD64 3000+
4 Gig RAM
ATI 9600 Pro , 128 Meg RAM card


maybe a video card issue ???

AMD64 also have 'hyperthreading', have you even tried to do the above solution?

no its these new processors that prentend like they are two proccessors. i'll walk you through the perminate solution it sense im boored


1) download Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 4.1


2) follow program instructions to install it


3) open up compatibility administrator (it should have made a new folder of shortcuts in all programs menu)

4) click the new (database) button at the top

5) highlight the newly created DB and change the name to something like EQ2db

6) click Fix button at the top

7) enter in EQ2 for the name and SOE for vendor and then find your EQ2.exe

8) make sure none is selected in OS modes and click next

9) scroll down to "SingleProcAffinity" and check it and click next

10) it should generate a report automaticly, if not tell it to auto generate then click finish

11) now click save and follow the steps to save it somewhere

12) now right click on your new EQ2db database and select install

13) you might have to reboot now for it to start working but it should be a more perminate fix than the task manager trick

To answer the first question, yes I looked at solution for intel processors, but there is no option to select CPU when I right click the EQ process in Task Manager.

I will try the other suggestion that starts with downloading the microsoft compatibility toolkit

Thanks for the replys

Jimbo

wow bit- thats a very helpful post. Nice.

Don't know if you have the answer to this or not, but is this an EQ2 specific issue, or is it an XU one? I ask because, with all the talk from SOE prior to launch about how future proof EQ2 was, saying that there wasn't a system in production that could run EQ2 at max settings, its suprising that they don't support hyperthreading or muti procs. Not really suprising- this is SOE, after all, but still...

You should take out 2 gigs and run on just 2 gigs of RAM rather then 4, 4 would slow it down. Having idle ram is not good. It would be better if you just used 2 and you lag more at all because you only need 2 for any processess including EQ2

Diso- Not true about the extreme setting, you need like an AMD FX 2 nvidea 7800 gtx and 2 gigs of ram. that will run it smoothly on extreme. Qeynos Harbor might have a tad bit of lag but just an itsy bit

i'm not really sure what is happening here as far as how scripts interact with the game while its switching between two proccessors. but i can say that i had to use this fix for FFXI. so its either an XU problem or alot of game developers are are neglecting this. you should notice windowed mode working much better after applying singleProcAffinity. now having windows open on top of eq2 wont make the game shutter ie combat stats mini-monitor should work after the fix above