Stuck at 30 fps

[Viscere]

Hey guys

I have recently come back from a break and im experience really low FPS on p99, name im stuck at 30 FPS on an i9 / RTX 2080 Ti.

I have

1) Disabled Windows defender
2) Removed dynamic lighting in the eqclient.ini file
3) Tried renaming the eqclient.ini file, did not improve
4) using wineq2 , affinity set to 1 core...

any ideas?

it's making me really nauseous after 20 30 mins of playing, it's so bad that I Have to stop playing

thanks for the help!

[mcoy]

Is the client actually detecting your 2080? Under options > display > advanced does it report the discrete card or your integrated? If the latter, use dgvoodoo2:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=356196&highlight=dgVoodoo

-Mcoy

[Viscere]

Indeed mate, the 2080 is detected and displayed in the options in game

[iksarking]

The game is locked at 30 FPS a patch or two ago.

[Skarne]

i'm having this same problem it is frustrating ive tried a lot of different things- still no luck. ever since the 60 fps cap patch

[Stryker85]

I had this same issue after updating drivers on my 1660 Super. What fixed it for me was going into the NVIDIA Control Panel settings and manually set the "Max Frame Rate" setting to 60. Don't forget to hit apply then completely exit and reload the client for it to work.

[Skarne]

I tried doing that too only the AMD Radeon version i use a 5700 xt and it didn't do anything. Ive renamed my INI file, messed with the setting through the AMD overlay, no dice. still hard capped at around 35 fps

[xaix1999]

use dgvoodoo2:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=356196&highlight=dgVoodoo

-Mcoy

recent windows patch to directx has caused issues
listen to mcoy

[Viscere]

I had this same issue after updating drivers on my 1660 Super. What fixed it for me was going into the NVIDIA Control Panel settings and manually set the "Max Frame Rate" setting to 60. Don't forget to hit apply then completely exit and reload the client for it to work.

That FIXED it for me, THANK YOU!

[Viscere]

So :

for me the fix was to go into nvidia control panel, chose eqgame.exe and set max FPS to 60 , instead of have it automatically set, which hard capped the game at 35 fps :

http://i.imgur.com/ybSmySd.jpg

Additionally :

- renamed the eqclient.ini
- using wineq2 affinity set to 1
- removed windows defender

I still get some very harsh FPS drops when im in WL and it's raining for instance, i'll try further tweaks and see what works.

[Skarne]

If anyone has any fixes for a Radeon/AMD user pls let me know, capped at 35

[Kaezyr D`Shiv]

@Skarne, first off, are you using WinEQ2? If you are, try doing this below and see if you have better frames.

Secondly, try just renaming your eqclient.ini to eqclient.ini.old

Then try to open the game using the "Launch Titanium.bat" link provided by the P99 patch files downloaded. Then run the "Options" and setup those according to your video card. Is the card that EQ recognizes the one that you are expecting?

If after doing those steps and you see the FPS go any higher than 35, then it may be that you were using WinEQ2 and had the option for "EQPlayNice" to be on and possibly configured to limit your FPS to 35. (Mine was set to be limiting at 40 exactly) I am using a Ryzen 5 AMD integrated APU, after turning off the "EQPlayNice" option for my EQ shortcut in Preferences and closing and restarting the WinEQ2 application, I am now able to go over 40 FPS and am no longer locked.

[PabloEdvardo]

I noticed a similar issue with framerate effectively capping at 37 when I upgraded to Win10 build 2004. I reverted back to 1903 and I immediately went back to 60fps.

[Skarne]

@Skarne, first off, are you using WinEQ2? If you are, try doing this below and see if you have better frames.

Secondly, try just renaming your eqclient.ini to eqclient.ini.old

Then try to open the game using the "Launch Titanium.bat" link provided by the P99 patch files downloaded. Then run the "Options" and setup those according to your video card. Is the card that EQ recognizes the one that you are expecting?

If after doing those steps and you see the FPS go any higher than 35, then it may be that you were using WinEQ2 and had the option for "EQPlayNice" to be on and possibly configured to limit your FPS to 35. (Mine was set to be limiting at 40 exactly) I am using a Ryzen 5 AMD integrated APU, after turning off the "EQPlayNice" option for my EQ shortcut in Preferences and closing and restarting the WinEQ2 application, I am now able to go over 40 FPS and am no longer locked.

I will try it! Thank you. I do not have WinEQ2 I will try to download that and configure.

[xaix1999]

it's your drivers
roll back your catalyst

[Skarne]

WinEQ2 wasnt the issue. I'm not sure how to rollback my drivers, and idk if thats a good idea considering I also play many current games.

[Skarne]

I noticed a similar issue with framerate effectively capping at 37 when I upgraded to Win10 build 2004. I reverted back to 1903 and I immediately went back to 60fps.

How do I try and revert back? My apologies I am not very good with computers. Is there any way you can describe how I could do that?

[xaix1999]

getting drivers from your manufacturers website is a better idea then downgrading windows which you will most likely not be able to do

[xaix1999]

drivers you get from windows are not the same drivers from your manufacture
manufacture drivers will always be better

[xaix1999]

and what game you are playing meaning nothing to your gpu if you have manufacture drivers
i said rollback your drivers "assuming" you have them in the first place

software doesn't make your gpu better

[Ovaltine]

I was hoping Skarne would come back and update this, as I too have a 5700XT that caps out at 33-34fps when playing P99. I tested out EQ2 and was able to run it on Extreme, getting more than 60FPS in certain areas. Busier areas tend to dip FPS but it proved to me that the card can handle more than 33fps.

I had built a new computer a few weeks ago, upgrading CPU from FX-8670 to Ry 9 and the GPU from an R9 390 to the 5700XT with new mobo/psu/m2. P99 would cap at 60FPS on the 390, no issues with P99 framerate there.

I tried WinEQ and messing with the foreground/background FPS Limiter. It solved the background issue where Alt-Tabbing out of the game would cause the game to run at 9-10fps in the background, with WinEQ, it will stay at 33-34FPS in the background. But it doesn't unlock the foreground FPS.

Attempted to lock the CPU Affinity to 1 core, didn't solve anything. Tried hard locking AMD Chill to 60FPS and enabled/disabled Anti-Lag, didn't solve anything. Game recognizes the card in the Advanced settings. Utilized manufacturer drivers for all parts. Did upgrade windows to the 2004 version, build 19041.508. Messing with alternate resolutions/Hz windowed/fullscreen. It will go up to 65FPS in the char select screen, but once into the game, its a solid 33FPS. I use GPU Tweak II to monitor FPS, but do not manually overclock any parts.

[Skarne]

Sup Ovaltine- could never figure this out man. Still capped at like 33-36

[xaix1999]

Is the client actually detecting your 2080? Under options > display > advanced does it report the discrete card or your integrated? If the latter, use dgvoodoo2:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=356196&highlight=dgVoodoo

-Mcoy

[xaix1999]

so i have dxvk (direct x to vulkan translator)
in the login menu i have 180 fps (186 fps)
in the character select i have 90 fps (93 fps)
in the game world i have 60 fps (62 fps)
i hope you see the pattern
first thing i would do is go to your eqgame comparability and remove the comparability for what ever windows version you have it set to
next check your dxdiag for problems
next check your gpu manager program and add what ever profile you need for eq to be managed by the game not your program
as the game is built to have an in game frame limiter
remove your limit to 60 fps and just let it run its normal speed or fps
problem should go away

[Ovaltine]

Appreciate you tryin to help xiax.

I took your suggestions and turned compatibility mode off for eqgame.exe. Just unchecked the box and did so for all users as well.

I ran dxdiag from an Admin terminal and it reported no issues.

I went into the Radeon software and set everything back to default globally and removed eqgame as a game that I could adjust settings for. Any option that allowed 'unless application specifies' I turned on.

I noticed dxvk can work on windows. So, I downloaded it and followed instructions via readme, writeups and youtube. WinEQ2 did not like D3D9.dll and prompted me to remove it, but would boot the game anyway. Client would crash after logging in and hitting 'Play Everquest'. WinEQ2 would also complain about not having an entry point in one of the dlls, boot anyway, and crash after hitting 'Play Everquest'. This happened on both the x32 and x64 versions of the files. Running the game without WinEQ2 and just clicking it from the directory would error out about an entry point also.

dgVoodoo2 would give similar issues. However, when entering the game with dgVoodoo2 running, text would appear as blocks and textures would be 1 solid color. All the while still running at 33FPS

[xaix1999]

so wineq2 and dxvk dont work since wineq2 needs directx to respond back with status messages
dgVoodoo2 needs a fresh install of the game since you are mixing directx and opengl
dxvk replaces directx so both cant be installed at the same time
the other replacement is wined3d

[xaix1999]

dxup looks like it can help you

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/349

[xaix1999]

uninstall your drivers from the device manager and reboot
then install your manufacture's driver's, probably in safe mode
reboot
with your windows you got some kinda of limiter for what ever reason running
sounds like your drivers were never fixed

[Exard3k]

So :

for me the fix was to go into nvidia control panel, chose eqgame.exe and set max FPS to 60 , instead of have it automatically set, which hard capped the game at 35 fps :



Thank you!

I had the same problem. I took a break for a couple of months and when starting the client I had low fps. That setting brought me back into business. I had to update my nvidia drivers because my old version didnt have the "set max fps" setting. Works!

[rbosse]

Holy crap. The Max Frame Work update to 60 worked from me! I was tired of the low FPS everywhere... I logged on my wife's computer who has a GTX 980 and it ran at 60fps non stop... then mine was 32. Changed this to 60 and BOOM! Thank you guys so much!

[pivo]

Holy crap. The Max Frame Work update to 60 worked from me! I was tired of the low FPS everywhere... I logged on my wife's computer who has a GTX 980 and it ran at 60fps non stop... then mine was 32. Changed this to 60 and BOOM! Thank you guys so much!

Silly question, but how one check at what FPS is P99 running?

[rbosse]

Silly question, but how one check at what FPS is P99 running?

Not too silly. With NVIDIA crap, you can do ALT + Z when opens the new GeForce Experience crap and enable the FPS counter that way.

I use RivaTuner and MSI Afterburner, personally.

[pivo]

Not too silly. With NVIDIA crap, you can do ALT + Z when opens the new GeForce Experience crap and enable the FPS counter that way.

I use RivaTuner and MSI Afterburner, personally.

Ahh i see thanks. I don't have Nvidia card. I though you can see FPS in game.

[xaix1999]

not in game but i use an add-on that work on all programs

[brunow1337]

I had this same issue after updating drivers on my 1660 Super. What fixed it for me was going into the NVIDIA Control Panel settings and manually set the "Max Frame Rate" setting to 60. Don't forget to hit apply then completely exit and reload the client for it to work.
Awesome this worked! had not played in a long time and i felt something was weird with the fps and this fixed it! cheers dude!

[Crypto]

Decided to log in after some years of not playing and came across this issue.

Nice to see a workaround for nVidia users but we AMD users seem to be boned. Been trying to work around this 33/34 FPS limit all morning and no luck. The equivalent AMD feature to nVidia's "Max Frame Rate" is called "Radeon Chill" and it does nothing to help.

Tried WinEQ2, messing around with various profile settings in the AMD software: underclocking the GPU, FreeSync on/off, vsync on/off, etc.

[xaix1999]

amd or nvidia doesn't matter

http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html

or

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wined3d4win/

[Crypto]

amd or nvidia doesn't matter

http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html

or

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wined3d4win/

Thanks for your reply. I tried Wine3D4Win and it had no effect aside from crashing the game every time I went out of full screen. The other option has a bit too nasty a virustotal profile for my taste. False positives probably but oh well.

[Skarne]

If anyone’s curious I found a solution on my end...specs closer to front of page. I changed my resolution in settings to 1920x1080 and put it on windowed mode. This worked like a charm and the game runs smoother than ever now which is strange but okay with me.

[brunow1337]

If anyone’s curious I found a solution on my end...specs closer to front of page. I changed my resolution in settings to 1920x1080 and put it on windowed mode. This worked like a charm and the game runs smoother than ever now which is strange but okay with me.

i have never played EQ in fullscreen for some reason its always been something wrong with it. However a tip is to go to your EQ folder where your UI settings are "C:\Users\"Name"\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Sony\EverQuest"

and open eqclient.ini and just open with a notepad and go down to

[VideoMode]
Width=2560
Height=1440
WidthWindowed=1280
HeightWindowed=1024
WindowedWidth=2558
WindowedHeight=1373
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0

here i have changed the windowed width and height so i have it basically as big as i possibly can. At my 2560x1440 screen i have changed it down to 2558x1373 so its not outside the screen.

WARNING! If you change the resolution ALL your chat windows, trade, loot, group, spells windows etc will be reset no setting but the location you had them at!

[Utmost]

Thanks for the GeForce setting tip. So much difference between 35 and 60. Might be able to play some again

[bomaroast]

What is the word on this? My fps has tanked on both amd and intel integrated graphics systems.

[WeApOn]

Found my fix.

For those using WinEQ2 -- Check the options for EQPlayNice, there is an FPS limiter setting in Foreground. Turned that up and the game is finally running butter smooth.

[IzHaN80]

That FIXED it for me, THANK YOU!
Thanks, that solved my issue too! I was getting crazy :o)

[Stryker85]

Thanks, that solved my issue too! I was getting crazy :o)

You're welcome :p

[cc0]

I've got an AMD Radeon 5700xt, and I've tried -everything-. Then suddenly I turned off compatibility mode for eqgame.exe and everything is smooth at 60fps again.

[Crypto]

I've got an AMD Radeon 5700xt, and I've tried -everything-. Then suddenly I turned off compatibility mode for eqgame.exe and everything is smooth at 60fps again.

Not really playing p1999 much these days, but once in a while I login just to see if there's any change in this issue. Upgraded from a 5700XT to a 6900XT a while back and I'm now around 40FPS (instead of 30) :D

I checked for compatibility mode, but sadly it wasn't even enabled to begin with.

One day maybe.

[cc0]

Did you try to set the frame limiter to 60fps for eqgame.exe? Think you can do that in radeon drivers now.

[Crypto]

Did you try to set the frame limiter to 60fps for eqgame.exe? Think you can do that in radeon drivers now.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried that. AMD implements the framerate cap (Radeon chill) differently than nvidia I believe, so I wouldn't necessarily expect the same result.