Going LD

[ferrisssavior]

Usually I play live at the same time, because I like to be on and talk to people at the same time.

For instance I was playing on the Come and Play server, duoing in Unrest, and I was finishing a bard 1.5 fight for someone in my guild.

Frequently I just go LD.

No wireless connection, I'm wired.

[techguy84]

Ok, have you tried to disable all firewalls and such between you and the internet. Remove all blocks and try to conect. Dont run like that forever though as you open your computer up to a world of pain.

[TheLieka]

Originally Posted by ferrisssavior

Usually I play live at the same time, because I like to be on and talk to people at the same time.

Have you tried just logging onto an EQEmu server without being on live? Again, trying to narrow down the variable. Most people that you talk to on EQEmu servers that don't have problems with going LD, probably aren't logged into Live at the same time as EQEmu servers.

You also said that you duo on eqemu while you're raiding on live. Most people don't have a rig strong enough to run much more than 2 or 3 eq clients (it's pretty clunky). Also, make sure that you aren't running any apps in the background.

Make sure everything else is closed, then run one instance for a bit, if that's stable, open another one. If that's stable, open another one. If that's stable, then you know it's not an issue with performance or connectivity to the EQEmu servers.

After that, I would try to load an instance of live with all 3 eqemu sessions open. See if it kills one or two of eqemu sessions. If so, close everything out, open 1 eqemu session and 1 eqlive session see if that's stable. If so, then load a second eqemu session.

You need to find the exact point where it starts choking, then it will be easier to narrow down the root.

Dax

[ferrisssavior]

Usually I just log in to talk, dont even do much but I still LD with just EqEmu.

For instance, I got home today... decided to go play some and I logged on with my 25 druid and my 15 shadowknight, and went to Powerlevel the Shadowknight in unrest. about 10 minutes into it, both go LD.

I have firewalls disabled, Peerguardian off, and am not even running Live.

I can't figure out what this is. Maybe some ports that EqEmu uses? No clue though.

The weird thing is though, sometimes... its only one of the two games. Sometimes my shadowknight will LD, and not my druid, or vice versa. Last night I was duoing, and was playing Live. Only the druid went LD at one point, among other times.

[Congdar]

This may or may not help for you, but I found that the default settings for my nic were less than optimal and I was going LD or crashing every time I zoned. I hung out at the speed tests on dslreports.com and went through all of the nic settings on the properties->advanced tab and adjusted them one at a time and then did the speed test. This got me an increase in internet speed... went from 405/130 to 728/134 doing this. I'm paying for 768/128 so i'm doing well now.

[Congdar]

I have to say that I didn't play eqemu after getting my speed up but now that I have... I am going linkdead in the middle of fights where before I would just drop during zoning. Not sure what's up. I deleted and had windows redetect and install my nic fresh and I still have the same LD issue. It is always about the same amount of time online maybe 10 minutes and then crash to the desktop just standing there. Is DDOS attacks the culprit? Dunno but it seems like it. I also received a message from norton blocking a trojan when logging into eqemu. I wonder what's up.