Jhet Bhlak

Apparently a player came up with a fix for the “West bug” that AMD users have while playing EQ. Here is their description of the fix:

WARNING: The two files linked below will modify your registry. The owner of that website can, at any time, change those files to malicious code that could screw up your computer. Download them at your own risk.

“At HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Direct3D create a DWORD key named DisableD3DXPSGP and set the value to 1. If you want to disable it you can either set the key to 0 or delete it.
For those that don’t know how to edit your registry you can download and run a registry script. The Fix.reg file will enable the fix and the UnFix.reg file will disable it.
After the fix is applied you must restart EQ for the changes to take effect.

NOTE: The fix may not work for everyone or it may not work at all. You may also notice a slight decrease in performance in any program that uses DirectX.”

Here is a link to their post on the EverQuest forum.

So I bought a new computer and built it from the ground up this weekend.  Overall it did not go too badly. As a matter of fact I’m posting from it now. It is a quad core processor and I had planned to run each instance of EQ (I 3 box) on a processor But I ran into a problem. You can’t set affinity on eqgame.exe. Every time I try it gives me the error, “The operation could not be completed. Access is denied.“  After digging around a bit on the net it looks like you cannot set affinity on the eqgame.exe process.  You have to do it before the game launches so it may work on the launchpad process.  I will have to try it out later.

One other thing I learned when building this computer is that I am going to need another UPS. My old Back-UPS XS 1000 APC unit actually gave me the finger when I tried to hook up all the new gear to it.  I’m not even sure what I need for backup power with this computer.

Here are the parts I ordered:

• XCLIO Windtunnel Fully Black Finish 1.0 mm SECC Chassis ATX Full Tower Computer Case
• GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0 LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
• BFG Tech BFGR88640GTSOCE GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
• ENERMAX INFINITI EIN650AWT ATX12V / EPS12V 650W Power Supply
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562Q6600
• MITSUMI Cold Gray 1.44MB 3.5″ Internal Floppy Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• ViewSonic Optiquest Series Q20WB Black 20″ 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
• Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Burner, OEM Version Black SATA Model AWG170S-B2
• Creative Inspire T6100 76 Watts 5.1 Speaker
• 4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-5300