Bit of a strange problem that I'm not sure what is the cause or how to solved.
Untill last week never had any problems boxign multiple chars on laptop (up to five). I usually just box three using isboxer for keymapping and MQ to make EQ playable.
Now suddenly I always seem to have lag on one instance of EQ (always the sk i use for tanking) that causes all sorts of grief as you can imagine. The tank lags usually when castng a spell or when engaging multiple mobs or when a mob casts on it... the other two instances of EQ are blessedly lag free. I get this problem no matter what combination I use regardless, MQ+Isboxer, just isboxer, or plain EQ (yuck). Even running a single instance of EQ gets me this wonderful lag.
The options for settings/textures/display are the exact same for all three EQ instances and Ive dropped them to minimum, killed all background programs/tasks. Using Win7, just recently installed service pack 1 and associated important updates that windows seems to spew out. I've run endless scans with McAfee, defraged, prayed to the internet gods, sworn at the gremlins but to no avial.
Only odd thing is that usign a 2.2ghz quad core 4gig ram previously i'd never use more than 50% ram/cpu if that now the ram is frequently at 70% without anythign but EQ running.
Any suggestions as to why I'd be consistencly lagging on a specific instance of EQ would be greatly appreciated.
Untill last week never had any problems boxign multiple chars on laptop (up to five). I usually just box three using isboxer for keymapping and MQ to make EQ playable.
Now suddenly I always seem to have lag on one instance of EQ (always the sk i use for tanking) that causes all sorts of grief as you can imagine. The tank lags usually when castng a spell or when engaging multiple mobs or when a mob casts on it... the other two instances of EQ are blessedly lag free. I get this problem no matter what combination I use regardless, MQ+Isboxer, just isboxer, or plain EQ (yuck). Even running a single instance of EQ gets me this wonderful lag.
The options for settings/textures/display are the exact same for all three EQ instances and Ive dropped them to minimum, killed all background programs/tasks. Using Win7, just recently installed service pack 1 and associated important updates that windows seems to spew out. I've run endless scans with McAfee, defraged, prayed to the internet gods, sworn at the gremlins but to no avial.
Only odd thing is that usign a 2.2ghz quad core 4gig ram previously i'd never use more than 50% ram/cpu if that now the ram is frequently at 70% without anythign but EQ running.
Any suggestions as to why I'd be consistencly lagging on a specific instance of EQ would be greatly appreciated.
