MacBook gameplay problem

[The1Gnome]

My girlfriend and I just started to play on this server. We have everything installed and working, got our IP exemption, and have started to play together. I'm on my desktop PC with no issues and smooth gameplay. She is on her MacBook Pro playing through wineskin.

Our problem is: when she sees my character or other player characters, they have extremely choppy/laggy movements. My character would walk 3 steps forward and stop, yet on her screen he'll keep walking for 10-15 seconds before resetting in the spot I put him. Sometimes player characters will completely disappear on her screen for 10-15 seconds before reappearing, sometimes they disappear for longer. This has also happened with NPCs too; getting attacked by a creature which doesn't show up on her screen until 10-15 seconds later. On my screen I could see everything fine.

I haven't been able to find a way to check the latency on either computer yet. Not sure if it's a connection issue or something involving mac or wine. But my computer has not had any issues, on my end I can see everything that happens, player character or NPC related with little to no choppy/laggy movements.

If anyone has experienced this problem or has a better idea of what the problem is, I would appreciate any help. I've looked all over the forums but can't find anything specifically referring to an issue like this.

MacBook Pro: OS X 10.6.8
Processor: 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Chipset: GeForce 8600M GT

[Derubael]

probably need to set affinity (enable only 1 core to run EQ).

not sure how to do this on a mac. isn't wine a windows wrapper? if so, you may be able to do this by opening the task manager in windows, right clicking eqgame.exe in the PROCESSES (not applications) tab, and clicking set affinity, then unchecking the core 1 box (so that only 1 cpu box is checked) and clicking ok.

[Swifty]

I have been having the same problem on my MacBook Pro, with a lesser graphics card. My solution was to install Windows 7, which also solved the problem of going LD in TT.

(if you can call this help)

[The1Gnome]

Thanks for the responses, we're looking into just using windows if it seems to run better on that operating system. But I'll have to see if I can enable only 1 core on the macbook and see if that changes anything. Still looking through all the settings to see if changing anything improves it.

[The1Gnome]

After fiddling with display settings for a while, I found adding a texture cache line to the eqclient.ini and disabling it as well as boosting the max frame rate to 100 seemed to work. Much better performance now, go figure.

[Babayaaga]

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MacBook Pro: OS X 10.6.8
Processor: 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Chipset: GeForce 8600M GT

It wouldn't hurt to consider maxxing out your RAM. I certainly wouldn't install anything more than Snow Leopard but if I'm correct, it appears your machine is the 3,1 Model, Mid/Late 2007. If so, your system will "accept" a maximum of 6GB of RAM by installing 8, but this particular RAM (667 MHz) is more expensive than others on the market and it's not worth upgrading to more than 4GB. Spending any more than that you may as well upgrade the machine.