Multiple Core Issue?

[Mingo]

When I try to initialize EQ through EQEmuLauncher or WinEQ it closes. Both of these programs set core affinity.

When I turn the affinity off in EQEmuLauncher i can open EQ, load into game (but then, i have the core issue, and cannot play)

When I launch EQ with the cmd affinity 1 as Nilbog has suggested, EQ wont launch. When i take this out of the filepath, EQ will launch, but then, again, unplayable.

This all started with the WinEQ change last night.



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I have reinstalled EQ. I have updated drivers for graphics, chipset and all MB drivers. I have reinstalled WinEQ. I'm not sure what to test next, any ideas? A lot of people had this issue last night, i bet some of them have fixed it and have an answer.

[Deanob]

Intel or AMD? and which model?

A lot of these issues are solved/fine when running Windows 7 with latest updaes and launching EQ normally via eqgame.exe patchme target command.

[Mingo]

Windows XP. AMD processor.

[SwordNboard]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3609

[Mingo]

Thankyou. Yes, i've tried all of those and the AMD drivers that work on multiple core issues. None have worked. That was where i looked first.

So.. while Red99 was down i logged into other EQEmus to chat with pals. For these other EQEmus i have another EQ directory. WinEQ was able to open EQ from this directory, fine. So i moved the EQchanges into this folder and now WinEQ will not open it.

Must be something in these changes that's causing this error for me?

I did a system restore, a couple of times, with a couple of tests. WinEQ after the July 27 patch fights something in the dsetup.dll from that July 14th patch for Red99 changes.

They are now not compatible on my machine.

[nilbog]

I don't have any issues with wineq2 after they repatched.

Are you running everything as administrator?

[Mingo]

My only user is setup as admin, so i would assume i am by default?

[Mingo]

went ahead and opened WinEQ with Run As (admin) and same result. fyi

[nilbog]

If open, close wineq in your tray.

While holding SHIFT, right click your shortcut for wineq, and choose run as administrator.

[Mingo]

tested that, too, no dice. can still click EQ, WinEQ2.0 Default Profile, hour glass for half a second, then nothing opens.

[nilbog]

In eqclient.ini, what are your following settings?

[Defaults]

VideoMode=0
WindowedMode=FALSE


[VideoMode]
WindowedWidth=1920
WindowedHeight=1080
Width=1920
Height=1080
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0
WinEQWidth=1920
WinEQHeight=1080
WidthWindowed=1920
HeightWindowed=1080

[Mingo]

VideoMode=0
WindowedMode=TRUE


[VideoMode]
WindowedWidth=1280
WindowedHeight=800
Width=1152
Height=864
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0
Widthwindowed=1152
Heightwindowed=864
WinEQWidth=1440
WinEQHeight=900



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Also i have WindowedModeXOffset=1
WindowedModeYoffset=10

[nilbog]

When I launch EQ with the cmd affinity 1 as Nilbog has suggested, EQ wont launch. When i take this out of the filepath, EQ will launch, but then, again, unplayable.


Windows XP. AMD processor. Unfortunately there is no /affinity switch in XP, afaik.

I'm not sure what is wrong with your wineq, but for the normal shortcut with patchme you can try.. after launching it:

-Open Task Manager
-In Processes, Right Click on eqgame.exe
-Set Affinity (My advice would be keep CPU 0 checked, and uncheck CPU 1)

That works as a manual solution but you would need to do it every time you launch the game. There are programs which force this for XP .exes, I believe.

[Zenfull]

I also am having this same issue and have tried all that has been mentioned so far.

Running XP and AMD

I was running great until sunday night when WinEQ updated.

The strange thing is the error I get. "You cannot attach a debugger while playing project 1999" I wanna play on the EZ server or Hidden forest and I can't even get to server select. How does it know I am going to log into P99? Was code added to prevent this?

[Deanob]

Like I said, 7+ with updates solves a lot of dual core issues on the AMD Side.

You can try AMD's duel core optimizer here: http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pages/psearch.aspx?type=2.1%3B2.12&product=2.1.2.3.5&contentType=Tech+Download+Processor&ostype=&keywords=

[mtb tripper]

I had problems with this once as well, I had to get duxas download and get the dual core processor fix and whatnot