Caveman with a computer

[Sleepwalk]

I am not a tech savy person. But this is what i do know.

I am running windows 8 on a pavilion 23. Its not a top of the line machine but it should run this game fine.

System stats
AMD A6-5200 APU with Radeon (Tm) HD Graphics) 2.00ghz
8.00 GB (7.44 GB usable)
64-bit operating system

internet speed test
47 ping , download speed 4.37mbps, upload speed .75mbps

Now here are my issues. I have somewhere around 5-10 min zones (if i don't crash). Randomly the game shuts off. And if I go LD while playing, all the monsters and players disappear but i can run around indefinitely until I try and zone which will finally crash the game client. (which first happened to me in OT while pulling. I thought a bard had just pulled everything.)

Now I can say that this is getting frustrating. I can't figure it out and really I don't have the know how technically to really have any ammunition to try anything but this is what I have done. I have redone all of my drivers. I have reinstalled the game and gone through the getting started portion enough times that I know its instructions by memory and have retraced my steps enough time to know that I am doing it the exact way the instructions specify.

I have uninstalled all third party virus software and I put everquest on an exclusion list on windows firewall.

From a user point of view it really feels like I am constantly dealing with an abnormal amount of lag. I turned off all of the particle density crap and i am running the game on the lowest settings possible. However I feel that I shouldn't have to considering i use to play this game on a single core machine back in the day with higher settings.

I have wondered if maybe there is something wrong with my machine so I took it into bestbuy and had the geek squad look at it but they said it was fine.

Anywho thats my rant. If you have any step by step instructions I can follow them. If you made it this far thanks for reading!