I had a godawful time of it last night. I had already loaded dx7a a few months ago, plus loaded new video
and sound drivers, so I thought I would be OK. But after installing the patch last night, I couldn't run
EQ at all since it couldn't detect my 3D card. So I loaded new video driver. Then I was getting all of
the following: 1) 5 minutes to zone, 2) one minute to regain control of my character after zoning, 3)
3-10 second pauses roughly 3 times a minute while attempting to play, 4) constant disk access. I loaded
new sound drivers, that didn't help. What made it tolerable (although I still get pauses) was to run
DXDIAG and set the sound acceleration slider off. (I don't play with sound anyway, so I don't much
care). This improved the zoning, and gives me 3 or so 1-3 second pauses each minute, which still stinks,
but at least it's playable.

So turn down (or turn off) sound acceleration. Especially if you have an SB sound card, they seem to be
the big culprit. Then hope they fix this.

I'm running on a rather minimal system, and I think I need to break down and buy some more memory, also (I
only have 64). Is anyone running problem-free with that little?

Kenross Cantoforjado, 54 songs, Innoruuk

Daniel Sniderman wrote:

> Anyone else experience this - judging by postings on the tech boards - there
> are quite a few others.
>
> Post-patch I get 1.5 second pauses every 5-10 seconds or so. If I kill of
> EVERY background program (except my firewall - can't live without that) - it
> helps - so that the pauses are 1 second ever 15-20 - but it's still there...
>
> I have a high end system (Athlon 800, Geforce2 GTS) - so it's clearly not a
> performance issue. Also - turning off sound, and setting display options to
> the minimum make no difference whatsoever...
>
> Slyde
>
>
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