Lag/stuttering while mouse looking has gotten unbearable

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Originally Posted by leewong [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd start by disabling every background service you can...even anti-virus. Sometimes running the game on a single CPU core also helps.

If you could paste a dxdiag so we know your system specs it would really help.

Thanks for the reply.

I keep a pretty tight ship as far as stuff like startup processes and things that I keep running on my PC. The only things I have running while I'm playing EQ are Discord, a few Chrome tabs and OBS Studio when I'm recording, none of which seem to have a noticeable effect on the stuttering when closed. Don't run antivirus aside from maybe Windows Defender I think. Actually Windows services are the only thing I'm not sure on. There are a lot of them and I don't know what I can safely disable. I tried that single core thing before as well (that's setting affinity in the task manager and setting it to only 1 of the 4 CPUs ya?) and that didn't seem to help at all either.

Here's a pastebin of my dxdiag https://pastebin.com/fHhDKBtr

I know my CPU is old/underpowered but back when I first got it in 2013 it ran this game like a dream.