[Happyfeet]

Turn all your windows graphics down to XP level, it helps a remarkable amount. You'll be fine with that setup.

Also dual-core laptops have a lot of random issues, I mostly play on one. When I boot EQ I either get a normal running EQ or a laggy one. I'll have to close and reopen EQ a couple times to get a good boot. Or you can run a youtube video on mute in the background which fixes that lag.

If you run into problems you'll need to set the affinity by right clicking on your EQ icon > properties > target box. And add:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "EverQuest" /BelowNormal /affinity 1 "C:\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme