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Yesterday, I got to sit down and talk with ZaideGod about his attempt to break some EQ records on “Return to EverQuest.” I find his attempt extremely interesting given my love of e-sports and competitive gaming. So far on the Mischief server he’s broken the EQ following records we know of:

• Fastest to level 50 on a server that launched in Classic (Levels 1-50); ~28-29 hours!

• Fastest to kill Phinny on a Classic launch server

• Killed dragons and raid mobs within the first few days of launch (fastest Vox kill, etc)

This post isn’t to fanboy, it’s to expose all the hard work and coordination behind the scenes it takes to accomplish this. If you listen to our interview you’ll hear about the logistics network they setup, the practice runs from level 1-50 they ran, and the training involved to crush goals like these.

I think competitive gaming is something to promote and foster so future generations of gamers don’t get stigmatized like we did growing up, so I’m all for it. Especially when their success reaching goals doesn’t negatively detract from other people’s game play experience.

Anyway, our interview is definitely worth checking out if you wanna hear EQ history being made and what it took to get there. Cheers!

Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1694317/episodes/8614700

• Anthony, Nurfenpurf from the Gnome Crew

> It has to be something with the router. I tried with my mobile 4G internet and it downloads fine with that, so it's not something with Windows Firewall or anything.

Have you tried completely disabling the firewall? When you connect to a new network you declare it a "home" "work" or "public" network, which changes the firewall behavior, and by extension the rules.

> I had created a rule for Everquest anyway.

Did you create a rule for the launchpad, as well?

> I've pretty much narrowed it down to something with the router, I just have no idea what it really is.

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/08/05/windows-10-limiting-internet-speed/

Check this out, since you're on Windows 10.

It's this guy, https://parsec.app/ and yes it can allow similar things to shadowplay and stadia, but lets you run your own clients. I use parsec for three computers that can support it and google remote desktop for the other two. Note parsec doesn't strictly support running multiple clients at once, I run one copy of the regular version, then have a couple folders where I install the 'portable' version of parsec and just rename the executable (2,3,etc).

I think it's more of a security thing. I think the easiest thing would be get something like ProtonVPN (it's free and takes almost no setting up) and just setting yourself as being in the U.S.

It's stupid because anyone using a stolen card would be likely using (multiple) VPNs to begin with lol

As an aside, I bought these and they spec out way better. Toss Win 10 LTS on there as a bonus and you've got yourself a lean machine for boxing.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XBKFZVL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

I bought this one two years ago to use for boxing EQ and it works great. That one's not available but I'm sure there are better ones now. Would recommend.

Here is a link to it: HP ProDesk 600-G2 Mini Desktop, Intel Core i3-6100T, 3.2GHz, 3MB Cache Dual-Core, 16GB DDR4 (Supports up to 32GB), 256GB Solid State Drive, Win10Pro (Renewed) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BSHRLM8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_BXWKKVZTDEMDNQ10V32Y?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

The game would be playable on low settings, but I doubt you'll get 60 fps. Maybe 20. Honestly, EQ2 is very poorly optimized.

Try this to see if you can run it: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

That'll be 19:00 Uhr, german time

or

18:00 O'Clock, british time.

Infolink to convert time: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5,2950159,2643743&h=2643743&date=2020-7-26&sln=18-19

Ryzen 3000 cpu owners please read!!!
I had a heck of a time figuring this out. Immediate crash after clicking "play everquest" at server select screen. I tried many versions of wine/proton. Nothing worked. While debugging I saw that sldt was causing a page fault exception in eqmain.

 

Solution:

I had to add "clearcpuid=514" as a kernel boot option. Hopefully this won't be the solution forever. So far I've only tried wine 5.8 with this workaround. Though I suspect earlier versions work now as well.

 

Proton github thread:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2927

 

A wine bug report was made a while go, but it's status is still unconfirmed.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47571

 

My system:

Manjaro 20.0.2 Lysia - fully updated

Linux 5.6.15-1-Manjaro

Ryzen 3600

Nvidia GTX 970 using video-nvidia-440xx ver. 440.82-1

http://download.cnet.com/WinEQ/3000-2121_4-10526904.html try this one.

As I indicated to you before I do "Alt Tab" frequently when just running two-three toons and doing simple things like moving to a camp doing a daily etc... But there are levels to "Boxing" that go beyond simply feeding exp to an alt or just kinda towing along a dou for his merc's tank or healing addition.

I'm certainly not the best boxer around, But the truth is a boxer that gets into it is so smooth running toons others in group or raid can't tell the toons are boxed.

If the question was asked again to me today... Hey I'm looking to start boxing anyone have any advice? my answer remains if you really want to BOX and do it well.... Use WINEQ and for more than 2-3 toons couple it with ISBoxer as I personally know folks than run full groups of toons boxed this way without a merc in the party and are able to function as a unit in a very uniform and automated fashion.

On another point I've DIED due to a lag while Alt tabbing I've never died due to the fault of WINEQ and/or ISboxer. Does Alt Tabbing work, sure... I still use it sometimes like I said, is it boxing on par with WINEQ no way, no how!

Are you using XP SP3 for compatibility mode? I get as far as launch game then it just says this:

https://snipboard.io/t5HLae.jpg

I get as far as logging in, selecting a server, then launching the game after selecting the server.

I haven't, but I can give it a try next week. (I'm taking a mini-vacation over the long weekend.)

What have you tried so far? What issues have you had?

/u/smbell has drawn my attention to https://lutris.net/games/everquest/ . This looks compelling, at least at first glance, and I believe should be fairly distro agnostic. There's a good chance Lutris will either render my efforts moot, or I'll ditch my project and contribute my efforts toward having EQ run under that platform.

Just install Lutris or PlayOnLinux and spare yourself the trouble. This will help you to maintain every game in its own prefix, swap between different wine builds, and revert easily should anything break.

Actually Lutris has an automated installer for EQ live. Just click on the Install button and you're good to go, no hassle required.

I would advise against ever using the wine build from your distro repository, exactly for the reasons you describe. It will update now and then without warning and could break any of your games, leaving you in the dark on what exactly happened.

Do you have a display attached to the other computer? Is it running Windows? If so, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35460

It's called Mouse Without Borders, and only sends mouse and keyboard events. Move the mouse to the edge of the screen and bang! Your pointer is on the other PC.

You may want to make changes to the windowed/fullscreen setting in EQ so it stops vanishing upon losing the pointer, but that's it.

Personally I've used previous versions of Synergy when boxing but, since you're running Windows on all the machines (I wasn't), I'd go with Mouse Without Borders available free from Microsoft.

Set up your computer with your monitors side by side, and install synergy on both computers ( https://symless.com/synergy) Boom, now you're essentially 2boxing on one computer while 100% in the rules. The keyboard/mouse will just seamlessly move from one computer to another and EQ is slow enough that the minimal input lag wont have any effect.

Here is a video I recorded. I am not an internet genius and I figure people can edit these files, so I suspect 0 consideration given to this. But I am happy to share logs with anyone that can verify a log to prove that I was not ever contacted by a GM.

Again, I feel like a loser posting this. Correction, I am a loser for posting this. But fuck Dunbar.

https://www.loom.com/share/76c6ae0133554cb1b915bcf22fc79040

Try out No Machine. I was able to remote to my home PC and play WoW without issue (other than some latency due to the crappy pc i was remoting from.)

It also resolves the mouse-look sensitivity issue. Which was the main reason I was looking for remote software.

Your English is very good. Stick with it and you'll get better.

I'd recommend joining the official Everquest discord and asking questions in the #the-newbie-zone when you have them.

As far as how to equip yourself, I'd use https://www.raidloot.com/ to search for upgrades by slot.

I'd probably recommend restarting on Aradune. It launches the 27th.

So to update this thread if anyone is interested - these mini PC's were pretty much unplayable. Even with the graphics set to pretty much their lowest settings, and clip plane dropped to 0-15% it was not even worth it even as just a buff bot. I'm going to return these and swap them out for these - Beelink.

I'm pretty computer illiterate although I watched a few videos of game play with the integrated graphics, and some were modern titles with high frame rates on low settings so I am hoping this will perform a lot better, even with a dual core i3 versus a Atom quad core.

I bought 4 of these recently and I'm happy with their performance.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M3GZPS3
If I had need, I'd probably buy a couple more for other HTPC option

If you use a VPN, it’ll download.. had the socket error and the launcher download 404 not found error, and was able to get it to work and download. I use NordVPN, but I’m sure any of the other ones will work as well.

There's a massive book that was released for the 10 year anniversary. It's pretty pricey these days but I was able to get one for $20 a few years ago.

You can find really cheap refurbished office pcs on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BCGW85X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1), or check if your state/local government has a surplus you can buy from.

The amazon ones are nice, 200ish you can get the pc with windows, just need a cheap monitor.

I kind of prefer the mini towers over laptops personally. You can replace parts, old laptop breaks, good luck.

You may look want to look into a VPN. If the laptop is monitoring UDP connections, that would solve the problem. I recommend Torguard. I have been using it for a little over a year now, it works great and doesn't cost a lot. As a SysAdmin, I would also suggest copying the Everquest folder from the Program files to a flash drive and uninstalling the game from the laptop. You can run the game from the flash drive, and you don't leave anything behind that might cause you problems with work. Of course if they are cool with it since you travel then disregard.

I've seen proof of concept with raspberry pi projects, but you have to use linux and wine to run EQ (and technically using that method could get the account banned). Theoretically possible at like 35 bucks.

More realistic, though, just browse craigslist, ebay, whatever for a cheap computer (refurbished ones from company selloffs of old pcs are great and pretty cheap This, for example). 100 bucks for the machine itself, maybe 30 bucks (or less, even free if you have one laying around) for an old video card (seriously, the shaman pc is using an 8800GT card).

It'd be a slightly risky, but if you even found one super duper cheap with windows XP on it, that'd still work (just stay off the actual internet with it because it's super insecure). If it were only meant as a box pc for EQ.

For 100 or so bucks you could try one of the intel atom quad core based windows 8/10 tablets.

Some examples:

http://www.amazon.com/RCA-Windows-Detachable-Keyboard-W101/dp/B00Z7Y7WRI/ref=pd_sim_sbs_147_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=41Eq2Poui%2BL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1GM1Q8CJFRSVZYT2FX0W

http://www.amazon.com/Vulcan-Excursion-VTA1005XB-Touchscreen-Subscription/dp/B00POY7BQS