Zoning Speed

[sleestac]

I was grouped with a guy in ME the other day and he literally zoned out and back in within 40 seconds.

I have never seen anything like this type of zoning speed. Again, he zoned twice in that time.

Anyone have this type of performance?

I realize this isn't ShowEQ specific, but I would classify it as general chatter.

[fryfrog]

turn all your models totally off, get a fast system with a lot of ram and a good video card. put like "9" in your datarate.txt.

[LordCrush]

What is the Datarate.txt - can guess from name, but what can i achive with it ?

[Yueh]

You can go quite a bit faster.

- Athlon XP 2000
- 2 Gig DDR Ram
- Geforce4 Ti 4400
- Abit KX7 Raid with dual 7200 RPM Hard drives
- All models off
- Texture Caching on
- Broadband with Datarate set at 15

Zone from ME to DS in about 5 - 10 seconds

And I might add that this isn't always a good thing when you have head on trains at both sides of the zone!

[fryfrog]

it effects how quickly the server send you data, thus in theory your zone time should decrease. unfortunatly, most of the load time is the loading of models into memory and stuff like that, so the faster the computer the better. since a better computer costs $$$ and the datarate.txt change is free, its worth a try :)

[LordCrush]

I ll try

[sleestac]

"Zone from ME to DS in about 5 - 10 seconds"

Damn, that's fast!

Thanks for the insight everyone. I'll try upping the datarate.txt.

[JustACoder]

I set my data rate at 35 and it's great . i'm sent the mobs on SEQ so fast.

[lildr00d]

Also just a side note I increased my zoneing speed by simply turning off Anti-Virus while I was playing. No point in haveing it check zone files every time you zone or load models.

I've played arround with just putting a exclude filter on the evercrash (Err I mean everquest) directory but I figure I want to scan VI's files every now and then.. LOL

[JustACoder]

yeah I already disable norton when I run EQ, it crashes / locks me up.

[lostpacket]

I turned off my swap file under XP and I'm zoning like pre-luclin days. It's great!

I'm running a dual p3 1Ghz (sometimes oc'd to 1.3Ghz)
1.5GB 133 Mhz ram
and a lowly geforce 256 deluxe (32mb ram)
All models on
Texture caching, mipmapping, dynamic lighting, and high textures on.

Sure it takes 10-30 seconds to zone (depending on where I'm going) but for me it's worth it being able to have everything.

I haven't run into any troubles with the swap file off - even with 3D max 4.2, Photoshop, Premiere, Deep paint 3D, etc etc.

The only time my computer slows down is on boot up and verifying DMI pool. Takes about twice as long there, then it's fine.

[RavenCT]

I run on a P4, 1.4 Ghz, 768MB of RAM, a DSL connection and I changed the data rate from 5 to 15..

Holy Crap! My zone times are almost non-existant now!

I wonder why I've never heard of changing this value before? Is this something new?

[high_jeeves]

Its been around forever.. they even talk about changing it on the main EQ site.. if you set it too high, you have a chance of getting out of sync, but bumping it up 10 pts or so will make a huge difference.

--Jeeves

[LordCrush]

Jeeves --- perhaps i overlooked it a long time, but i like your footer quote

[datadog]

I couldnt find the link, but I remember verant posting somewhere on EQlive that if you set the value in datarate.txt higher than 9, it will default back to 5.

Setting it at 9 (from 5) did make a noticable difference for me in network performance.