Test Update 9/12/2023 - Patch Notes and Discussions

Seems that I was ahead of time as that argument got added to my Slash Commands list long ago.
Just like you...

I have a couple computers i use to run Everquest with AMD 2200G's with onboard GPUs. They ran okay before but the new minimum specs are similar to my CPU performance but for GPU the minimum spec is about 250% faster than my GPU when looking at benchmarks.

Will it still run the same?

Whoo!!

Did the reset device crash bug make it in? Or bank lag when you open your bank?

You would have to log on Test and try.

The minimum specs they list is probably just the weakest PC's they have access to, if you actually compare the specs nvidia gpu vs amd gpu and amd cpu vs intel cpu and the suggested intel igpu in the Q&A portion, the gaps between some of them are quite large, anywhere from 1.5x to 30x in general performance.

The difference I've noticed most vs live not counting the bugged parts are model/texture loading seems to cause FPS to get choppy, but dunno if this is related to a bug or not.

Yes, as GPU does not matter much in modern EQ. It made a big difference in the past (anno 2000) to have a 3D card and which one (Vodoo, Banshee, etc.), but maybe just for the 2D features of those cards.

I just wandered around Steamfont (and Guild Lobby and Plane of Knowledge) and the game is far more laggy than on live. I can only hope that this will be better as it gets optimized. Right now it is highly annoying (almost unplayable).

I kind of was expecting (hoping) for the opposite, that it would be even smoother since it can now use all new sorts of instruction sets that are optimized for stuff. It also can use the GPU more, offloading stuff from the CPU. Instead, it was worse.

It is at the beginning stages with Darkpaw just trying to get it to work at all and I hope that the optimization steps that come next will make a huge difference. "Get it to work first, then get it to work well".

I'm confused how this is "corrected". Bards have used 2 different insult timers for a very long time(since synergy was added?) with a few issues along the way but now we will only be able to use 1 insult. Which really limits where you can place it in melody and removes all synergy benefit during quick time increasing melody songs from 10~ to 12~.

Only 2 songs work with synergy currently, Nord's disdain(timer 3 soon to be 6) and Sogran's Insult(timer 6).

Currently you can fairly easily fit 4 insults into a 10 song melody with a lot of flexibility depending on preference for when you want them landing, after the change it will be 3 and their location in the melody will not be flexible at all.

Currently during quick time you could increase the insult casts because everything else was sped up in cast time but the recast timer stayed the same so after this patch we will be limited to only 3 insults even during QT because we don't have a 2nd timer to play with.

It would be nice to know if this was an intentional ADPS nerf and will this be the standard going forward or will we be getting timer 3 back with the expansion?

"- The /follow command now supports the name of another player, as an argument, in place of targeting that player."

Good change. Most players have macros like

/pause 5, /target Tucoh
/follow

The pause is necessary because /target ostensibly requests info from the server and reduces responsiveness. A couple years ago I started leveraging the extended target window for my team, which is more responsive. My boxes will set up their extended target windows to have Tucoh as extended target slot 7 and my follow commands are

/xtar 7
/follow

The other similar way I use this is with assisting, where "/assist Tucoh" also requests info from the server, so you need a pause. I've adapted to using xtar for this also to shortcut that.

I think its always been like this on the no level increase expansions.
Nords 3 6, sograns 6
yelinaks, omordens timer 3
sathirs, travenros 6
Tsaths, fjilnauks 3
kaficus, garaths 6
Nords should have been 6 to match sograns but I guess nobody noticed till now. But notice that when the new expac hits we get one new insult (probably) and it should be timer 3 so you can use that with Nords.

The spell timers are now consistent, but the problem is the development of Synergy has changed such that every other rank allows dual insulting for proccing Synergy. Upgrading ranks can now reduce your ADPS potential from Synergy (because you upgrade from a dual proccing rank to a single proccing rank), which really doesn't make very much sense.

Consider decreasing spawn time on "a shady goblin" from 24 hours to something more reasonable. You've done this in the past with "an angry goblin" being reduced to a 15(?) minute timer.

A port is not the same as something developed natively, so what is on test right now is a bog basic thing that will be in need of some tweaks & lots of optimisations to get it running as good as live and eventually better, it will take time.

It will also take testing & players highlighting the issues they come across to speed that whole process up, so the more on test playing & reporting stuff the better.

should this work?
amd radeon vega 3 with lvls 12.1 12.0 11.1 11.0 10.1 10 . 9.3-.0
win 10 build 19045
systum man. atari
model vcs 800 classic
...
proc. amd ryzen embedded r1606g with radeon vega Gfx , 2600 mhz 2 core 4 logical
...
installed ram 8
useable ram ~5.5

i try to pick test server and 3 seconds later i am at empty desk top. yes its an atari vcs. live servers normally work but i do have to restart about once a week because i get a weird message and crash on entering world but restating fixes.



ok never mind it will let me enter if i set res to 800x 640 on launcher.

Whats up with last weeks patch notes being redated to tomorrows date?

Isn't that usual? They change the date and post it as the live update tomorrow

A new Test patch is happening this afternoon with patch notes pending. That's why there is another open thread. I am assuming this is going to be DX11 updates we will need to test in a hurry.

Yea thats what confused me. When I see a new test patch notice I try to log in test and then check the eqnews.txt file since that often gets the notes before forums do. Today the file says 9/20 but its the notes I already read last week. I want new notes!

Still cant load in correctly Just crashes at Char select...again for the last week... About to lose my business if this goes to live