Desync issues in GFaydark and Felwithe

[kartikeya200]

Here goes with the second issue. Once again, I'm pretty newbish at this, so I beg forgiveness in advance. I'm running a server off my own machine, having used the new Windows installer and done a few personal edits (mostly just enabling bots and changing a few respawn times and item stats). I'm running my own login server, but people are also able to connect via the EQemu login. I'm experiencing this issue regardless of which method I myself use to log in. ROF2 client, and I've tried multiple reinstalls from different sources just in case.

Here's what happens: I usually origin back to Kelethin. Originally, for anywhere from one minute to five, nothing in the zone would be responsive. Can't open doors, use merchants, even spells will cast but hang before completing. I can run around and click on things all I like, but until whatever's causing the desync ends, there's nothing I can do client-side to affect it.

Yesterday I had cause to enter Felwithe for the first time, and I noticed the problem was substantially worse. I would desync so bad that I couldn't even zone from Felwithea to Felwitheb, or vice versa. My position was kept (because if I managed to /q out and come back, I'd be where I'd last seen myself, including in the other zone if I was at the zone line), but it seemed like from the moment I logged in it would start desyncing. I was doing the batwing quest and noted how at first it would work fine, then the responses would get slower, and slower, until I was unable to do anything and would have to /q out and wait for the server to boot my character. A few times I had to end EQ via the task manager as not even /q would let me escape.

Sadly, after nearly a full day of trying to figure out what was going wrong, I've been unable to make any difference, and now it seems like Kelethin is getting about as bad as Felwithe. I haven't noticed this problem in other city zones such as Freeport, Qeynos, Neriak, PoKnowledge, etc.

Does this sound like a server issue or a client one? Does it sound like a problem with quad cores? None of the solutions I've tried there have done anything to help it, sadly. I have one friend who has been playing in other zones who hasn't experienced this issue at all, but she hasn't tried to be in the two zones I know are affected. Logging in via my laptop didn't seem to produce this trouble either. I could put up with the original Kelethin annoyance but now both zones are practically unplayable.

Edit: I forgot to add, in case it matters, this machine is running Windows 10, and has an intel processor.

Edit2 to update: I had my friend run around Kelethin while I had been desync'd for quite a while. She had no problems. She could see me, and see me move, but doors wouldn't open on her end either when I clicked on them. She also has a quad-core intel processor and is running Windows 10.