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Originally Posted by Thulack
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Slow zoning = hardware issue(suggest SSD)
Choppyness,etc = setting issue (turn fps to 30)
those were my 2 suggestions to his problems. What is your problem is another story.
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That was what I was thinking as well but all the tweaking I did (including FPS) didn't help. After doing much searching I found some old posts about the hitching issues in EQ and people saying that there is some specific (poor) coding in EQ that requires HD access during gameplay in an unusual way that can't be prevented/limited with large amounts of RAM. When the game does this HD access it causes the hitching in game.
Since I had EQ on a separate drive and it was a SATA drive not SSD it was making this worse. After moving EQ to the SSD drive with my OS install the issue went away completely.
I suppose using a RAMDISK would achieve the same result but if the OP is spending money anyway it's probably worthwhile to get an SSD for overall PC speed and they are relatively cheap (recently got a 500Gb SSD for about 100 bucks).