The Hidden Forest

Anyone know what may be causing my client to go at hyperspeed? Just built a new computer and EQEMU runs with animations like 10x faster than they should be..

I'm running RoF2 on Windows 10, AMD 7950X, RTX 3080

After doing some research, it appears that this is a problem that people have been having since dual core CPUs back in the mid naughts, and it was always fixed by setting affinity to a single core or something along those lines (I have heard of this problem before, but I have never experienced it personally on any of my other computers/builds, most with multiple cores). So, this problem was fixed ages ago, and I tried assigning only one core to eqgame.exe, it made no difference. I also tried adjusting the max fps in game and that did nothing. Zoning did nothing.

More on the problem itself: It's not just animations of NPC which go super fast, it seems like everything about the client is super fast. I move superfast and then rubber-band back as the server notices that I'm not where I should be. When I camp, the 30 second timer takes about 1 second. 30 seconds passes in one second. Everything is super fast. And, strangely, the FPS is like, normal.. my fps is maxing at around 30 to 40 fps, it's not even super high as I expected it to be.

Any ideas?

Indeed it's been a while since I've heard about this issue. It indeed most probably has to do with the new CPU, as you mentioned. Have you tried experiencing with the process affinity maybe? Or run EQ in compatibility mode?
I'm not sure if tweaking with GFX related settings can help but might worth to try that as well in Nvidia control panel.

Maybe someone else met and fixed this issue lately, see if we get more input from players.

I tried running EQ in compatibility mode, no difference.

I'm gonna fiddle with my graphics card settings and drivers tonight and see what that does.

I don't think it's the GPU - Win10 Pro / AMD Ryzen 5900x / EVGA RTX3090 /32GB 3200mhz - no issues here.

Not sure if you're using MQ2 but I cannot help to wonder if your run speed is set to a super high variable. I remember back in the day we would warp or change runspeed variable in the MQ2 window on Vanilla. May not apply to you but best of luck on it

It's not MQ. I'm testing it without MQ or ISBOXER or anything else running. Besides, I've never had any of those features in my MQ setup anyways.

Here is what I have eliminated so far:

I've been running eqgame.exe alone for testing so it's not MQ or ISBOXER or any 3rd party program

I also deleted eqclient.ini and let ROF2 create a new one

I switched to my onboard video card and the problem persisted, so it is definitely not the video card

I also have tried disabling CPU features that seem like they could mess with older programs, like Simultaneous Multithreading, Core Performance Boost and Precision Boost Overdrive, with no change. I'm not sure what else I can do at this point.

After some more googling it seems like this problem isn't really as similar to the original dual core problem as I thought it was. In the dual core issue, the client would suddenly slow down dramatically and then speed up as the game caught up. The problem that I have involves no slow down, everything is at hyper speed all the time, and it isn't just me, it's everyone around me, all PCs and NPCs. Everyone's animations go so fast that I can barely even see the animations, it just looks like everyone has the shakes.

I even set all of windows to only run on one core and it made no difference. Installing an older version of DX9 didn't work. I'm out of ideas.

Keep us updated please or let us know if we can help with anything. It sounds like a though bug to squish.

This may be a bit elementary…..did you try a clean install with THF rof2?

Also, how are you launching the client?

Did you try installing the direct x 9c package?

I tried a clean install of ROF2, I even tried a clean install of Underfoot. Both still have the same problem. I am launching the client directly with "eqgame.exe patchme", no ISBoxer, MQ, WinEQ or anything else.

And I also did try installing versions of DX9, the older version that is known to work well with EQ.

Is anyone here running an AMD 7000 series processor?