HELP, EQ windows when minimize still consume tons of memory!
 

Hi All,

Just upgraded my O/S to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit from Windows XP SP3 32 bit.

My system is Intel Core 2 Quad CPU @ 2.33 GHz, 4 GB Ram, Nvidia GTS 250 1 GB RAM (latest driver), installed Directx 9.0c.

I am running Titanium client, with WinEQ 2.15 Lite. When I was in XP, I was able to run up to 6+ WinEQ sessions, with 1 in the foreground and the rest minimized. And the memory usage for the minimized instances were approximately 50,000 K of RAM each in task manager. Now in Windows 7, when I load up 6 sessions again, every eqgame.exe is taking around 450,000 - 550,000 K of RAM, and doesn't matter if it is minimized or not . I have the exact EQ settings from before (copied all mine toon's INI files from the EQ directory and copied them back), and all the EQplaynice settings within WinEQ are the same from before as well. see below:

Foreground = FPS Limiter
CPU/FPS Limit = 30
Rendering Limiter Mode = 1 out of x frames
Rendering Limit = 1

Background = CPU Limiter (also tried FPS Limiter too)
CPU/FPS Limit = 10
Rendering Limiter Mode = 1 out of x frames
Rendering Limit = 10

I have tried everything I can think of (eg: turn off Aero feature) to reduce the memory usage for the minimized EQ instances down to at least 100,000 K or less but no matter what I did, they keep eating up 400 MB - 550 MB of RAM each! Damn... anyone see this before? Is WinEQ 2.15 lite not compatible with Win7 64 bit? I have tried to run it in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode/run as administrator and still did not help, anyone got any idea? really appreciate any advice if you can help, I thought by upgrading to Win 7 64bit, it was supposed to utilized all 4 GB of memory more efficiently, but now it is actually making it worse... Arrrrgh...:?

BTW my main EQ Window (foreground) resolution is 1024 x 768, all graphic settings are disabled/low, just 1 or 2 Luclin models are turn on. The rest of my toons are in 800x600 with similar graphical settings.

400-550mb of ram is on the LOW side for memory usage. It's not uncommon for the client to use up to 900mb for one session, depending on what you're doing. I'm not sure how you ever saw only 50mb of ram - heck, I think the PoP client took more than that that, and that was about 10 expansions ago!

WinEQ works just fine with Win7 64 bit... Using it here and do not have any issues.

Why are you worried about 500mb of ram? If you have 4GB you can get atleast 5 instances of Everquest running at max graphics out of that. Turn down the graphics some and you can get alot more if you wanted to.