Windows Vista and SoD

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Xardon

Dalayan Beginner
I know a few people have asked, and since I now have a copy of Vista on my laptop and have seen some of the problems I can tell you that the SoD client works very well to run Shards, especially as a single box. I have seen problems, as reported, running dual client from a single machine.

Problem:

One box gets 50% CPU usage, the second box gets 25% CPU usage. This causes the first box to run very well, the second one to run very poorly and for the most part un-usable.

Current Workaround:

At this time I have only 1 work around, which I am going to test later tonight as a batch file, but what you do is bump the priority of your two eqgame.exe processes to Above Normal. This will balance them and they will both run efficiently and you can still switch between the boxes quickly. Doing this, however, will slow the rest of your applications down. Running a web browser will be very slow, chat programs, etc will not work very well at all. As a matter of fact, I highly recommend you just run only the two Shards boxes and nothing else.

The combination of the old client, plus the new architecture of Vista, cause the dual clienting to just ... not run as effectively. If I find another solution I will update this. I'm trying to find tweaks that will work without the use of additional software.

*note* eqplaynice works on standard desktops, but laptops cause the game to run in slow motion and do not run effectively. Power scheme modes in Vista don't have the same effect as 2000/XP did.
 
Just to add to this, I run SoD on a laptop with Vista as well. My laptop has a core 2 duo processor. Two boxing SoD runs smoothly out of the box for me. The only issue seems to be that the keypad will get stuck when alt-tabbing occasionally. Sometimes, it is just that the alt button gets locked and pressing alt once fixes the keyboard, other times, the game window will not respond to keyboard at all. The only way to fix the latter issue is to close and reopen SoD. I'm pretty sure this isn't a Vista specific issue though, as I recall this occuring back when I was running SoD on my desktop machine with XP.
 
same here. running it on a dual core and no issues at all. Not even the big graphic bug issue that usually comes with Dual cores.

Only problem is I cant run it at work lol ;)

PS: I prefer playing it on XP. XP just pwns more than Vista does
 
Yeah I am using the same laptop I had XP on and I never had any issues two boxing. Once I went to Vista, that's when I started to notice some issues. Single boxing though is actually much better than it was on XP, but if I two box, one runs great, the other is horrible, and I have to bump their priority in order for them to balance out.
 
I have recently starting boxing on a lab top with a dual core.. WOW what a difference in performance it has made.

Can't say much for Vista yet, other then everyone saying they hate it... thank goodness my Labtop is Windows Xp :)
 
Sorry to bump this older thread but I'm having a similar issue. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.0 ghz, 2 gigs of ram, 256 mb video card and I'm running Windows Vista. The first box I load runs very well but the second box is very slow. Graphically everything is fine but the second box is just plain slow. I can play them together but it definitely isn't a lot of fun.

I have tried setting both instances of eqgame.exe to above average and even high priority with no noticeable difference in performance. I even tried setting one instance of eqgame.exe to the first processor and the second instance of eqgame to the second processor. Again, no noticeable difference in performance. Is there a solution for this that I'm not finding?
 
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