3 different computers, 3 different operating systems, all exact same problem

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Crashing on zoning... Anywhere from 20% of the time to 50% of the time I crash when zoning. Seems too vary somewhat from day to day time to time and zone to zone.

I laptop with win 7
1 desktop with win 10
1 desktop with win xp sp 3

I tried wineq with both the desktop computers. two without win xp are in compatibility and run as administrator for win xp sp 2 or 3 (tried both and neither seems to change anything).

I get three different crashes when zoning. One is a quick-ish crash that has a pop up asking me to send my information about the crash in with a yes/no option, the other is one that boots me back to the main EQ splash screen/log in, and another where the computer just hangs not responding for 5+ mins and I am forced to kill the client. The "hangng" crash seems to be highly predicated on time of day and almost always occurs during primetime USA hours and almost never any other time.

All installations are 100% default installations other than the compatibility mode changes and whatever files i deleted as instructed to.

Edit: it also occurs with similar frequency when camping, not just zoning.

Also tried moving my installation to the main hard drive directory on the win 10 computer. Again, didn't seem to change anything.