Dzillon
Dalayan Master
You may have noticed I'm more active in the technical support section than before. Of course my patcher still doesn't work, but I guess it's not that a big deal since I'm regularily using PatchFiles direct download and downloading the spells_us.txt or something - correct me if I'm wrong, cause it could be the reason to many other problems.
First I got a 2800+, GF4200, 1gb ram, DSL shared connetion (Netgear router, never been a problem for EQ), EQPN, EQW 2.35a, regular UI, I often dual client on separate hard drives (not partitions)...and no setting changed since preSoD nor since SoD, except the Datarate I changed from 8 to 7 or 9 without any benefit. It worked very well, but I noticed several matters that I didn't expercience before-I think- september 16th patch :
-Client crashes are the most annoying, they happen often, not only when I dual client, and for no reason (sometimes I'm running, last time I was opening a bag when in front of the second client, sometimes nothing..) ;
-Freezes is the newest, happened twice so far : once in Oggok, as soon as I opened the ingame map, the game began to slow down like crazy and I couldnt do anything without a delay of like 5 seconds-it wasn"t lag, more like huge slowdown- I thought the map was the problem because when I managed to close it the game ran ok again, and when I opened it again the game definitely froze and eventually crashed. But I also had the problem 10mn ago, when I just gated into Newport, without opening the map or anything, I couldn't write normally, and it led to crash client eventually. And last time I was in NP, it was during the Prophet event 12 hours ago, with lots of people in the zone and no slowdown whatsoever.
-LD's, or more often huge packet loss, of course happen often, at least more often than before, mainly when I dual client, and it hits one client only. But I think this is here to stay, I'm not the only one.
Just wanted to share my recent problems, if more people have noticed similar weird things maybe we could find a common source and solve one or more matters.
Thanks by advance
First I got a 2800+, GF4200, 1gb ram, DSL shared connetion (Netgear router, never been a problem for EQ), EQPN, EQW 2.35a, regular UI, I often dual client on separate hard drives (not partitions)...and no setting changed since preSoD nor since SoD, except the Datarate I changed from 8 to 7 or 9 without any benefit. It worked very well, but I noticed several matters that I didn't expercience before-I think- september 16th patch :
-Client crashes are the most annoying, they happen often, not only when I dual client, and for no reason (sometimes I'm running, last time I was opening a bag when in front of the second client, sometimes nothing..) ;
-Freezes is the newest, happened twice so far : once in Oggok, as soon as I opened the ingame map, the game began to slow down like crazy and I couldnt do anything without a delay of like 5 seconds-it wasn"t lag, more like huge slowdown- I thought the map was the problem because when I managed to close it the game ran ok again, and when I opened it again the game definitely froze and eventually crashed. But I also had the problem 10mn ago, when I just gated into Newport, without opening the map or anything, I couldn't write normally, and it led to crash client eventually. And last time I was in NP, it was during the Prophet event 12 hours ago, with lots of people in the zone and no slowdown whatsoever.
-LD's, or more often huge packet loss, of course happen often, at least more often than before, mainly when I dual client, and it hits one client only. But I think this is here to stay, I'm not the only one.
Just wanted to share my recent problems, if more people have noticed similar weird things maybe we could find a common source and solve one or more matters.
Thanks by advance