Very Low Framerates

Haha, I love you. Worked perfectly .. holy cow. I can run laps around guild lobby with selos on and auto follow works perfectly .. amazing thanks a ton Lax. I used wineq way way back in the day when it was still just eqplaynice actually, I was assuming isboxer did the same thing as eqplaynice, apparenlty not! Screen flickering doesn't bug me one bit if i can play at a constant 60fps like this, very cool stuff.

Also want to mention my cpu usage dropped to like 60% in underfoot zones, it still peaks in guild lobby but theres no helping that with like 200+ char models around. Oh and yea I've had my affinities setup in isboxer from the day I setup my eq char set.

EQPlayNice has a feature called Rendering Limiting. This can be used in conjunction with IS and ISBoxer (just make sure to turn EQPN's FPS limiter off so you can use the one built into IS and configured through ISBoxer). What this feature does is prevent the game from rendering the world every frame when in the background. This will reduce both CPU and GPU usage in EQ1. However, it comes at a cost -- not rendering the world every frame means the game will appear choppy, and since this feature lets the UI render, it will appear to flicker/flash when the game is allowed to render the world. A lot of people interpret this as lag, however it is allowing the game to run at an increased framerate (higher FPS), while reducing CPU and GPU consumption. As another helpful benefit, autofollow performance in EQ1 is based on your framerate, so autofollow should be smoother.

The easiest way to try this with ISBoxer is as follows:
1. Install WinEQ 2
2. Run WinEQ 2 -- if you're on Windows Vista or Windows 7, you will need to right click and select Run as Administrator or it will NOT work with IS/ISBoxer, and in fact you might get a -20 error from the patcher (I have not updated WinEQ 2 to elevate the patcher to admin)
3. Right click the WinEQ 2 icon in the system tray and select Preferences from the Options submenu
4. Expand EQPlayNice in the Prefs. window, and under both Foreground and Background set CPU/FPS Limiter Mode to FPS Limiter and put the CPU/FPS Limit at 100 or more

I have a question about this, are you saying to have WinEQ2 in the taskbar at the same time as IS/ISBoxer?

Yes thats what he's saying, just start up Wineq 2.0 before you load your isboxer char set, works great.

[lax]

That's right, just by having WinEQ 2 in the system tray and EQPlayNice enabled within it, EQPlayNice will automatically apply itself to any running copy of EverQuest.

Couple month old post, but....

So do we turn off the FPS in IS as well? I have the WinEQ2 - EQPlayNice set up like you said, but what do we do with the Inner Space configuration. Right now it is at:
Foreground
- Enable Limiter (on)
Calculate CPU Time from drop-down
FPS Limit at 60

Background
Enable Limiter (on)
Constant CPU Time from drop-down
FPS Limit at 40

Do we need to change this so we get the benefits of what you set up from the WinEQ2 / EQPlayNice instructions?