I am glad your game works to your desired standards, the issue you describe is not given a clear cause. deleting the ini does create a new file when the patcher checks the games assets. There are MANY settings within this file and several can cause poor performance issues. also, EQ is incredibly CPU intensive (as compared to more modern titles) and while newer GPU's have much more power (ie. clockrates, memory, bandwidth to name a few) they also run DX9 (c) via emulation. I have several systems which have had their performance decreased after a patch or just "suddenly", and only my Xeon (8 core 16 thread) had issues with CPUAffinity0=-1 (Xeon was corrected by manually assigning CPU1=1 , CPU2=2 etc) and not assigning to Hyperthread (Virtual cores) . Indeed, i agree that Dev's should be informed and provided as much information as relevant in order to allow them to identify and fix (quite possibly with a patch). there are simply too many settings and other unknowns/untested variables. the nVidia 10x0' series have had issues for some time, and there have been a couple fixes, also pointed out are HW shaders and of course CPU Affinity. while the deleting/renaming of eqclient.ini may provide you with satisfactory game play as opposed to your previous ini, the differences between the 2 files has not been tested to determine the actual cause. Correlation is not causation. Also, the Term "lag" as in poor network performance? lost packets? or is this being used to describe low frame rate? from a troubleshooting point of view, with the goal of identifying the cause and providing a solution, deleting and re-patching is not a fix. it is a...wait for it...a patch (sorry could not resist) chances are the issues will likely arise again ,not to mention not everyone will be comfortable editing or deleting said file. hence, providing Dev's with as much information as possible, and posting in Test or Live bugs/updates section. i may have missed this info, but are you playing Live (if so which server) or Test Server?
The patching does not "update" eqclient.ini. That file is partially created by external game settings then fills out the remaining/missing information once the game is actually lauched.. After that changes are made if Alt O or via chat channel command line /log on/off, etcs. Another issue might be where EQ is installed, default location or custom location. Not going into details but the system can be pulling information from the default location then the "virtual" location that the system copies files to and run the game from there. It used to be bad when Vista came out, but things have improved but issues like this has not been complete eliminated. Issues arise usually when the player alters game files (eqclient.ini) manually in the default folder but it does not get copied over to the virtual folder or it causes corruption, or it only works for a short time. When the game has to be patched (you are always running the patcher, aka Launchpad ), even if one file is updated. Suggestion, if installed in default location, MOVE the EQ folder from the "Program Files" or Program Files (x86) folder. Locate the exe for the Launchpad.exe in the new location, right click and send to Desktop as shortcut. Also, if admin permissions are not set properly for the shortcut that can also have issues, it various from player to player, dependent on how they setup their OS. Just to add, another thing to consider is that one of the eqclient.ini files has a formatting and EQ is not able to read all the command lines, or if there is a read only setting on one of the files.
My everquest folder in is main drive as it should be. This is clearly a eqclient.ini issue with something causing a memory leak. While i dont have the time to find the issue myself as there is a lot variables and quite frankly i just dont get paid to do their job for them. They wanna sub contract me once again ill find the issue but as of right now its not my problem. Ive narrowed down the problem to make their job easier its matter of them going in and seeing what setting is actually causing this problem. But as stated above there is a lot of things to cross check for a average player to take many hours out his day and go setting by setting till problem is found. That is a company thing imo...
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It's not any one setting that is causing you guys problems. It's a combination of settings being turned up/on that causes your EQ windows to use more resources. Things like mipmapping, clip planes, shaders, etc will all eat more resources when EQ is in the background (unless max background fps is set to 1). As an example, in Geko's .ini files posted above, in the "broken" client, mipmapping is turned on, all shaders are on, and both FPS and maxbackground fps is set to 150. In the "RoF" client, mipmapping has been turned off, shaders are off, and both fps and maxbackground fps is set to 100. One of the particle settings has also been changed to a different value (likely self instead of all). You could squeeze out even more CPU savings by cranking your background fps to 20. I'd also probably re-enable the shaders. There's probably a few more settings that are set to "low," but that was what I caught on a cursory glance. Another thing that can affect performance is the way your CPU affinity is set. Each newly opened client writes a new cpuaffinity line to the config file. If this value is -1, that client will use all cores. If it is set to a number between 0-X, it will use that core and that core only. This can produce different results depending on what kind of processor you have, how many clients you are running, and what else you are doing on the system. Setting your terrain/memory modes to their lowest settings, turning far clip and actor clip down, and changing particle densities are all going to have impacts on performance as well. Examples: "Low" Settings, FPS/BGFPS 60/20: "Low" settings, but with Just FPS/BGFPS turned to max (150): You could tweak your CPU usage up and down further by adjusting clip planes, actor clip planes, turning things on and off, etc. tl;dr If you want to box a bunch of clients, the default EQ config that gets pushed to a clean EQ install is going to tax your system. You need to turn all the settings down to not murder your CPU.
In order to offer some objective testing to the community, and because I believe we each can make a difference for the better when we contribute back to the community. I did a bit of file comparison and testing. My relevant system information (not the latest hardware, but no slouch either): CPU: AMD FX-8350 MB: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 RAM: 16GB (2 x G Skill F3-1866C8-8GTX 8GB) GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G - 416.16 drivers * Nvidia Manage 3D Settings Program Settings for EverQuest (eqgame.exe) ** Anisotropic filtering: 16x ** Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting ** Antialiasing - Setting: 4x ** Antialiasing - Transparency: 8x (supersample) ** Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance ** Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: On ** Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Clamp ** Texture filtering - Quality: High quality ** Texture filtering -Trilinear optimization: On ** Threaded optimization: On Monitors: 2 @ 1920x1080 C: drive: Samsung 840 PRO SSD - 128GB OS: Windows 10 Pro - 1809 EQ install directory: C:\Games\DBG\Everquest (avoids UAC issues with C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files(x86) ) Server: Erollisi Marr UI: Savok Vert Note: I play in windowed mode to ALT-Tab between chars. 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OtherMisses=0 SpellDamage=0 RandomMine=0 PCSpells=0 NPCSpells=0 CriticalMelee=0 CriticalSpells=0 PetHits=0 PetMisses=0 DamageShields=0 FocusEffects=1 PetSpells=0 ItemSpeech=0 Strikethrough=0 Stun=0 SwarmPetDeath=0 FellowshipChat=0 MercenaryMessages=0 Achievements=0 PvPMessages=0 RandomOthers=0 RandomGroupRaid=0 EnvironmentalDamage=0 EventMessages=0 BadWord=1 BardSongs=0 BardSongsOnPets=0 Spam=1 SpellNameInCast=0 OverwriteDetrimental=0 OverwriteBeneficial=0 CantUseCommand=0 CombatAbilityReuse=0 AAAbilityReuse=0 ProcBeginCasting=1 DestroyedItems=0 AurasYou=0 AurasOther=0 HealsYou=0 HealsOther=0 DoTYours=0 DoTOther=0 DirectDamageOther=0 The Defaults section contains the values we are interested in. Helpful links with relevant explanation of these values: http://everquest.fanra.info/wiki/Graphics_and_performance_settings_guide https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/performance-settings-everquest.4304/ For one I'm pretty sure 14pixelshaders and 1xpixelshaders are no longer used variables, won't hurt anything if they are there, but nonetheless useless. If your GPU supports these you want them on (anything made in the last 10+ years should): vertexshaders=TRUE 20pixelshaders=TRUE For as many instances of the client as you are going to run, you want entries like this. CPUAffinity0=-1 CPUAffinity1=-1 CPUAffinity2=-1 CPUAffinity3=-1 CPUAffinity4=-1 CPUAffinity5=-1 CPUAffinity6=-1 CPUAffinity7=-1 Bloom=0 ; Bloom lighting leave it off for performance MipMapping=TRUE; uses more memory, but reduces overhead if enabled. MultiPassLighting=0 ; Use Advanced Lighting, leave off for performance PostEffects=1 ; you will miss a lot of gameplay effects if off; leave it on Shadows=0 ; not in either of yours but have this set to 0/FALSE, it's very CPU intensive ShowDynamicLights=FALSE ; item lighting best off aka /dynamic off ShowGrass=0 ; less for the GPU to do off StreamItemTextures=1 ; saves on memory enabled TerrainTextureQuality=3 TextureQuality=1 ; not really sure on these two TextureCache=FALSE ; old not used in newer zones UseD3DTextureCompression=FALSE ; set to TRUE to save memory at expense of some blurring vsync=FALSE ; set to TRUE to try to lock FPS to display rate FPS in various locations with *MY* EQclient.ini measured with FRAPS: ~100: PoK staring at a wall (51 chars in zone) ~48: PoK looking toward GL entrance standing near Tierna Morganna on the hill (5-6 chars in view) (51 chars in zone) 13-19 initially, settles down to 19-20: GL looking at the mosh pit behind the throne (/shownames 0 or 4) (71 chars in zone) 82-84: GL if I look straight up at the sky, and only have sky in view (71 chars in zone) 123-125: GL smashed up against the gate to Sunrise Hills (71 chars in zone) FPS in various locations with "ROF Eqclient.ini": 0-1: Nigh unplayable, how this works for either of you is a mystery to me. FPS in various locations with "Broken Eqclient.ini": ~10: GL looking at the mosh pit behind the throne (/shownames 0 or 4) (86 chars in zone) otherwise FPS was similar to above. It would be cool if others would provide their hardware configs and FPS they get in various locations. *HINT* *HINT* I used this tool to compare the above two EQclient.ini's http://inidiff.sheersky.com/ After looking over the differences between each file eqclient.ini's "Broken Eqclient.ini" or "ROF Eqclient.ini" neither one of them are configured in a sensible way i.e. with recommendable settings, or at least with an apparent understanding of trade-offs.
For reference comparison of the Defaults section of the two provided eqclient.ini's. Code: Broken-EQ.ini GOOD-RoF-EQ.ini [Defaults] 14pixelshaders TRUE 0 1xpixelshaders TRUE 0 20pixelshaders TRUE 0 acceptkickrequests 1 actornewarmorfilter 24 actorparticlecastfilter 24 24 actorparticledensity 1 0 actorparticlenearclipplane 2 2 actorparticleopacity 1 1 allluclinpcmodelsoff 0 FALSE allowresize 1 1 alwaysontop 0 0 apvoptimizations TRUE TRUE attackonassist FALSE FALSE autoafkoff FALSE autoafkon 0 autojoinhelp 1 automercpassive FALSE charcreaterotateon 1 0 chatfontsize 3 3 chatlinespacing 0 0 claimmessagetimestamp 1538189945 combatmusic 0 TRUE cpuaffinity0 0 cpuaffinity1 1 cpuaffinity19 3 cpuaffinity2 2 cpuaffinity3 3 cpuaffinity4 4 cpuaffinity5 5 cpuaffinity6 6 cpuaffinity7 7 cpuaffinity8 0 cpuaffinity9 1 defaultchannel 8 8 defaultlanguage 0 detectwelcomefailure 0 disabletattoos FALSE FALSE disablewestbugfix 0 0 dopropertinting FALSE FALSE environmentparticlecastfilter 24 24 environmentparticledensity 1 0 environmentparticlenearclipplane 2 2 environmentparticleopacity 1 1 envsounds 0 gamma 11 11 graphicsmemorymode 1 0 graphicsmemorymodeswitch 1 1 hasviewedhotbarhelp1 1 hideafk 0 hideafkmercs 0 hideafkpets 0 hidealtadvwin 1 TRUE hidechatwin FALSE FALSE hidehotboxwin FALSE FALSE hidemainmenuwin FALSE FALSE hidepartywin FALSE FALSE hideplayerwin TRUE FALSE hidespellswin FALSE FALSE hidetargetwin 0 FALSE ignorenumlockstate FALSE inspectothers FALSE FALSE invwinlabels TRUE TRUE itemplacementshowoverlay TRUE lastcharsel 0 0 leftclicktargethelp 1 lineargammacontent 0 loadarmor17 FALSE loadarmor18 FALSE loadarmor19 FALSE loadarmor20 FALSE loadarmor21 FALSE loadarmor22 FALSE loadarmor23 FALSE loadsocialanimations FALSE TRUE loadveliousarmorswithluclin FALSE TRUE lockwindows FALSE FALSE log FALSE FALSE maximized 1 0 mipmapping TRUE FALSE mixahead 8 8 mousepointerspeedmod 0 0 multipasslighting FALSE FALSE music 0 0 netstat FALSE TRUE nonameapprove 1 posteffects FALSE randomcharacterselectmusic 1 restoredheight 480 696 restoredwidth 640 1270 restoredxoffset -2 -8 restoredyoffset 0 -12 screenshotnumber 11 38 serverfilter 0 0 showalarmwindow FALSE showcreationhelp 0 FALSE showdynamiclights TRUE TRUE showgrass TRUE 0 showinspectmessage TRUE TRUE shownameslevel 4 0 showspelleffects 1 0 showvoicenoticewindow FALSE skycubemapsize 0 skyupdateinterval 60000 sound 1 TRUE sound44k 0 0 soundvolume 0 5 speakertype 0 0 spellparticlecastfilter 24 1 spellparticledensity 0.5 0 spellparticlenearclipplane 2 2 spellparticleopacity 1 1 targetgroupbuff 1 0 terraintexturequality 0 texturecache TRUE FALSE texturequality 1 1 trackautoupdate 1 TRUE trackfiltertype 0 0 trackmercs TRUE trackpets TRUE trackplayers 1 TRUE tracksorttype NORMAL NORMAL usearrowcamera FALSE FALSE used3dtexturecompression TRUE FALSE uselitbatches TRUE TRUE useluclinbarbarianfemale 1 TRUE useluclinbarbarianmale 1 TRUE useluclindarkelffemale 1 TRUE useluclindarkelfmale 1 TRUE useluclindwarffemale 1 TRUE useluclindwarfmale 1 TRUE useluclinelementals TRUE TRUE useluclineruditefemale 1 TRUE useluclineruditemale 1 TRUE useluclingnomefemale 1 TRUE useluclingnomemale 1 TRUE useluclinhalfelffemale 1 TRUE useluclinhalfelfmale 1 TRUE useluclinhalflingfemale 1 TRUE useluclinhalflingmale 1 TRUE useluclinhighelffemale 1 TRUE useluclinhighelfmale 1 TRUE useluclinhumanfemale 1 TRUE useluclinhumanmale 1 TRUE uselucliniksarfemale 1 TRUE uselucliniksarmale 1 TRUE useluclinogrefemale 1 TRUE useluclinogremale 1 TRUE useluclintrollfemale 1 TRUE useluclintrollmale 1 TRUE useluclinvahshirfemale 1 TRUE useluclinvahshirmale 1 TRUE useluclinwoodelffemale 1 TRUE useluclinwoodelfmale 1 TRUE usewasddefault 1 vertexshaders TRUE 0 veteranrewardstimestamp 1538003074 videomode 0 0 windowedgamma 0 windowedmode TRUE TRUE windowedmodexoffset -8 -8 windowedmodeyoffset -8 -12
This machine im on when doing the testing is AMD FX 8320 8 core 48 gigs of ram sata drives My gaming fps ranges from 150 fps to 200 fps. Bottom line is this problem did not start till last patch. While i dont too much care about the problem as ive figured a fix on my end i do wish to help others find a helpful fix as well. Why i posted a default rof ini as it will also fix the issue as my ini is quite custom and not very friendly for those who are not use it with features ive disabled. But since last patch something in the ini is doing something funky. Well not even something a bunch of somethings at once. Some people i know and have spoken to eq has become unplayable for them as their cpu is heating to extreme heats only when loading eq. It seems to be effecting people differently in terms of raising temps or raising cpu usage/ gpu usage.
I can assure you it was something that changed with a patch about 2ish weeks ago. Prior to whatever changed, I could log in 15 accounts and /af them on each other and none would get left behind. - Now I am lagging with 2 to 3 total characters online. I cant even move. https://imgur.com/a/awr9ggl CPU: FX8350 - OC'd to 4.8ghz on all 8 cores. GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW RAM: Corsair Vengence 32GB (8x4) The weakest link on my computer is the FX8350 - But it is overclocked to 4.8ghz on all 8 cores. So it is definitely able to take care of Everquest.
I am noticing a lot of the people who seem to be affected are on AMD 8K series processors? Is anyone on an intel or ryzen who is having problems?
Question, run all boxes from the same directory or from different directories? Running at least 2 would allow you to control how your primary looks vs the other boxes and have lower settings. Okay, TRUE = 1 and FALSE = 0 And without doing some testing, we do not know how defaults DBG for the missing command lines. Many of the default settings are turned off/lowest setting. Some lines in the Broken are missing command lines, expect them to be re-inserted. Also consider whether or not the ROF file is set as read only, which prevents EQ from adding some of the missing lines and may make EQ believe it is corrupted and replaces it. I removed most of the lines where there were no changes from one to the other. So via Alt O
Just to be clear I'm not affected by whatever is affecting Geko or Eniner, my FPS has NOT changed for the worse or better. I'm just interested in whatever I can do to make it better. I run all accounts/clients from the same directory. Running additional clients doesn't affect the performance of any of the other clients. Again, please provide hardware configs and FPS at specific locations in the game, as this will add some objective numbers for all to consider. It's hard to measure or compare "it's slower than it used to be."
@ Caell To answer your question. Hardware: CPU: FX 8350 @ 4.8ghz GPU EVGA 1080 FTW RAM: Vengence 32GB Disk: Samsung 840 PRO SSD Is there any other hardware you are wanting? Zone actually doesn't matter. The first box will run 100% fine. But the #2 / #3 boxed accounts get like 2FPS to 10FPS max. If I /ex on the first box ( that is running fine ) ... now the #2 box runs 100% fine after like 10 seconds. Something else that is interesting... if i /ex on all the accounts and then replace the eqclient.ini with the ROF version, I can once again log into 10 - 15 accounts with no lag. But i have to continuously switch the eqclient.ini out. This all started after the patch. Prior to this, I was able to run my old "Broken" Eqclient.ini with no lag on several accounts ... 10 - 15 accounts logged in with no lag.
What does setting these values in the Defaults section do for you? (Also, make sure there aren't any duplicates of these variables setting them different.) vertexshaders=TRUE 20pixelshaders=TRUE CPUAffinity0=-1 CPUAffinity1=-1 CPUAffinity2=-1 CPUAffinity3=-1 CPUAffinity4=-1 CPUAffinity5=-1 CPUAffinity6=-1 CPUAffinity7=-1 Also, in the Nvidia Control Panel is Power management mode set to Prefer maximum performance? These are some of the "heaviest hitters" when it comes to performance impact.
While im glad folks are throwing out suggestions id like to clear this up. This is not a user machine problem. This problem did not take effect until last patch. We should not have to change a thing to simply play a game but they should go through and see whats causing it verse trying find a easy fix to replace the problem. It needs fixed entirely not just patched. Everyone ran just fine before the last patch it needs to be acknowledged.
Something to do with clicking play on patcher is causing any account launched that way to have large amounts of lag and MASSIVE CPU Utilization not necessarily at the same time either... Before last patch i used to log in EQ via patcher for first toon and use patch bypass for additional toons. Since last patch the only way i have been able to avoid non server side lag is to patch and close the patcher. Then launching EQ with the patch bypass ''...\eqgame.exe patchme'' for every toon. This issue show up on 2 different machines that i have tested so far. AthlonII x6 1055t 16gb ram ssd RX460 AMD A10-6800k 16gb ram ssd GTX1060 6gb
If DBG are not able to duplicate the issue you are seeing, it does make it difficult to found a resolution. And if you have not noticed, the forum is primarily about players assisting players troubleshoot their issues while DBG rarely posts on the forums, assisting via other lines of communication. Would it shock you that a number of the items listed in the Support section came from players themselves, though not added until SOE/DBG could replicate the issues and the resolution, especially when their original resolution was too generic. One has to remember that Tier 1 support basically follows a script, and rarely will they step outside the script. And for fixes/resolutions, it is also dependent on the number of tickets generated. If 500 players are affected but only 2 players generates tickets, while the team themselves do not run into the issue, how likely will that get out of the low priority category to be reviewed later? Right now it is AMD 83xx systems with Nvidia cards (for those who posted at least CPU/GPU). If it holds, it would not be the first time AMD users were affected by a change. Since everyone would have installed/copied/moved directories over, besides CPU/GPU, what OS and where are your EQ directories installed? Current default location - C:\Users\Public\Daybreak Game Company\Installed Games\EverQuest I put mine in drive letter:\games\Everquest (drive dependent on machine). i5-3570 - AMD Fury W10 and i5-8600 GTX 1060 Also list what directory your EQ is installed in. I have seen where players would copy their directory from one machine to another and put it in Program Files or Program Files (x86), and that causes all sorts of problems for games, especially online games that are constantly being updated. Also check properties on the eqclient.ini on whether it is marked Read only. It should not be read only but files copied from another machine can be marked with that attribute. Depending on what is happening, the old file may be corrupted in some form. Best bet is to note the differences and make the changes with the new file, preferably via Alt O while in game, then CAMP out, do not X out of the game. X out of the game can prevent the settings from being saved correctly or corrupting the file, forcing EQ to generate a new one when it can not read the one present. ALSO, if making manual changes, be careful of HOW it is saved. eqclient.ini make sure TXT is not added at the end of it. Also, a big one tends to get ignored, Windows updates which may have caused a change in behavior, either by resetting user setup back to default, GPU driver updates being reset to default. Simply consider W10 Oct 2018 update being pulled after going live, even though preview users had told them of the issues of user data being erased.
