and its not just an eqemu problem. everquest live has problems with dual core including freezing animations and speeding up the players. this is an amd issue but the patch seems to fix it.
this was the work around to the problem (according to another forum and confirmed by a second poster):
Google for a freeware program called runfirst.exe. Put it in your
everquest directory.
Then make a batchfile to start up eq something like the following:
@echo off
cd "c:\Program Files\EverQuest"
c:
..\runfirst.exe everquest.exe
runfirst.exe will force processor affinity for the program it chains to
to the first core of the CPU. The normal methods to set processor
affinity (through task manager) do not seem to work for EQ.
another poster reported that it did work through the task manager. same thing with the patch, one said it worked fine another said it made things worse.
apparently the frame rate is affected and this is the microsoft patch for the problem: MS patch WindowsXP-KB896256-v3-x86-ENU.exe. i think the amd site has more details about this patch.
interesting since i run EQ on three machines, one a hot great 64, one amd dual core, and one intel d dual core.
i went to a microsoft patch site and those posts make me dizzy.
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