One other game killer you should remove - MS Find Fast! This gets installed
by default with Office, and you cannot do yourself a bigger favor than
removing it.
Astur il'Ayan, Cleric of Brell
Solusek Ro
> From: "Deane, Ben" <BDeane@...>
>
> If your lag meter is fine, but you're getting pauses like this,
> it points to
> your PC config.
> A few things to try:
>
> 1. Do you have a resident virus checker and what are its
> settings? Or do you
> have some other kind of scheduled CPU/disk/memory hog?
> 2. Do you have IPX drivers installed? I used to get a bad pausing
> problem in
> all games. It went away when I uninstalled the IPX drivers (I
> didn't really
> need them and you probably don't unless you run on an old Netware
> network).
> 3. Before you run EQ, reboot and clear your taskbar of resident stuff.
>