How to: EQ2 and Innerspace

[moosejaw]

I ran alchemy and set up eax. That is when bad things happened when boxing. Running eax solo allows me to play but will give me crashes. All in all, eax is broken.

What are you setting to get hardware mode without using eax? All I see is Miles and surround modes and they are both software modes. It is my understanding that eax is the only way to use hardware sound and all other options are software.

[Frosty]

What are you setting to get hardware mode without using eax? All I see is Miles and surround modes and they are both software modes. It is my understanding that eax is the only way to use hardware sound and all other options are software.

I could be completely wrong. :P

If I can get my son to sleep, I'll go look (on my crappy laptop right now).

[Frosty]

Ok, I was wrong. :P

Mine is set to Miles Fast 2D.

But, for all my slaves I have the following turned down to the lowest settings in Optins -> Sound -> General:

1. Sound Variations - "Reducing this setting will save memory at the cost of sound variety."
2. Max Simultaneous Sounds - Lowest setting is 8 I think.
3. Max Footstep Distance - 0.0

I'm going to dig through some other stuff.

I haven't really been having any problems with running 6 instances on my machine. I have my main window set to run with almost every setting at max.
There are a few things I turn off because they just annoy me (insane ammounts of grass/plants on ground). But it can't hurt to find a way to turn the sound off on the other 5 since I don't use it anyway. :P

[Lax]

Not to butt in

License is for 5 PCs, yes on G15 and G11 keyboards (though not G13 or G19 yet), Nostromo n52 Speedpad works, also older USB X-keys devices work (newer firmware support has not yet been confirmed but is implemented).

You could reduce some clutter with the software solution for sure and moving the mouse across all screens (multiplicity) means you don't need a mouse on each machine all the time.

Indeed synergy or multiplicity should work fine. Also, ISBoxer now has KVM Mode directly from one to another game window or windows (on the same or other PC), which you might find preferable to having to move the mouse across -- you keep your mouse on the original game window for mouse placement (that should be some good time savings), and you will see the cursor on the other window as well. You would set up a Mapped Key to switch destination windows (there are a couple examples on the KVM Mode page)

[moosejaw]

Not to butt in

License is for 5 PCs, yes on G15 and G11 keyboards (though not G13 or G19 yet), Nostromo n52 Speedpad works, also older USB X-keys devices work (newer firmware support has not yet been confirmed but is implemented).

You could reduce some clutter with the software solution for sure and moving the mouse across all screens (multiplicity) means you don't need a mouse on each machine all the time.

Indeed synergy or multiplicity should work fine. Also, ISBoxer now has KVM Mode directly from one to another game window or windows (on the same or other PC), which you might find preferable to having to move the mouse across -- you keep your mouse on the original game window for mouse placement (that should be some good time savings), and you will see the cursor on the other window as well. You would set up a Mapped Key to switch destination windows (there are a couple examples on the KVM Mode page)

No problem at all Lax. I will get the corrections inserted to the top post. I think placing as many guides where people might see them will help build more support, especially when they see what a breeze ISBoxer is to setup. I for one love the front end that you built for the other scripts. It saves hours of setup time.

I saw that you remade the ISBoxer page and placed all the links at the top, nice touch. I need to setup a second machine to check out the kvm feature.

You don't mind my linking those pages directly do you? Let me know if any if any links are not ok. I am changing the ISBoxer download link to just the ISBoxer page in case the link goes bad.

[Lax]

No I don't mind at all, should help people make use of the information that is available.

[Frosty]

Heya moosejaw,

I did some searching last night about the sound thing and it looks like Vista no longer supports the sound layer used by a lot of games.
I had a link to it..but it was late, and now the kids are screaming (son is smacking me in the back so I'll help him make another toon in CoH). :S

I know I found it in the sony eq2 forums though...

If I find it again I'll post it.

[moosejaw]

Frosty, can you post up what resolution monitor you use and how your layout is arranged. Also are you redirecting eq_recent.ini and what resolution is listed in that file for default and windowed?

If we have similar hardware and my performance is suffering it is probably the screen resolution. I have had bad results trying to lower the resolution in the redirected eq_recent file.

[Frosty]

Frosty, can you post up what resolution monitor you use and how your layout is arranged. Also are you redirecting eq_recent.ini and what resolution is listed in that file for default and windowed?

If we have similar hardware and my performance is suffering it is probably the screen resolution. I have had bad results trying to lower the resolution in the redirected eq_recent file.

I'll have to look at the resolution when I get home...it's a new 25 inch monitor with a crazy wide-screen format.
But I think all the windows have the same resolution including the main. Just all the follower accounts have everything turned down or off.
I'm also limiting the background frames to like 12 and the forground to 20 for the followers.

For my layout I used the AutoLayout in WindowSnapper, and have the main window on the left, with 6 slots on the right.
I have the empty slot for the place holder of what window is active. (default setup I think.)

Each account has it's own "faked" eq_recent.ini file through the ISBoxer setup. I can't remember what that's called? :P

I have my main window set to not go above 60FPS, but most of the time it runs anywhere from 30-60FPS.
I know I could turn off a few more "pretty" things, but I like em and don't want too!

[Frosty]

My monitor resolution is set to 1920x1080 but each EQ2 client is set to 1024x768.

Sorry it took me so long. :P