NPC Names in Live

[John Adams]

I just reloaded my OS with Windows 7, and loaded up EQ2 to get it working. I had it installed on another Win7 machine with EQ2, and I never noticed this odd thing with NPC names til now.

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Notice the "..." cutting off the NPC names? Wtf is this?

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Notice "a black cat" is fully named, but "Frisket" has ellipses?


Hopefully this is just some setting I forgot to change in my client, and not some new fancy bandwidth saving scheme by SOE. I fiddled with nearly every setting I could tho, and cannot find it

Suggestions?

[Scatman]

Wow I've definitely never seen that before. The only thing I can think of is, like you mentioned some setting, or SOE is fuckin' with ya during the Halloween event!

[John Adams]

As a last ditch effort, I actually replaced my eq2_recent.ini in the new install with one from my eq2emu clients, and now the names are fine. Had to be a setting, which was certainly not obvious to me at all.

Maybe a font thing. I did notice first launch, the fonts were whacked, so I added "small font" and removed it right away, and the fonts were completely different. Who knows.

I think I've made a mistake moving to Windows 7 for my main PC.

[ZexisStryfe]

Nah, I have been using it for 2 months... much better than vista and XP. I would be very surprised if that issue has anything to do with Win7.

[John Adams]

Re: Win7

Going back to XP. Parser runs slower than hell for both parsing spawns and populating. Everything "DOS" related seems insanely slow, and I have no patience to massage it into being functional.

XP wins again. Win7 is a nice OS for making my desktop look pretty.

[ZexisStryfe]

XP isn't based on DOS either, I see no reason it should run slower on Win7...

Different strokes for different folks tho

[John Adams]

Never said anything was "based on DOS". When I have 2 identical computers running side by side, one parses a 20mb file in 10 seconds (XP), the other in 3 minutes and 28 seconds (Win7), and populating a database runs 1 query per second on Win7 but over 100 on XP, something is wrong and I don't care to spend my day figuring it out.

XP works fine for what I'm doing, was the commentary.

[ilythor]

Eq2 is the only -anything- that seems to have problems with Win7. Looks like XP wins again!

[ZexisStryfe]

What problems you have with EQ2?

[ilythor]

Non personally, it would work if I had the internet to patch it.

But all of the client side problems that deal with graphics are always issues related to Win7, or those reported on this forum anyway.

[John Adams]

For me, EQ2 ran fine on Win7, except for some oddities with the fresh install and config files that were not behaving the same as a fresh install on an XP box.

The framerate seemed between 5-10fps slower using Win7, but I also loaded my desktop with Gadgets and crap, so I am sure that had something to do with it.

Win7 as a Desktop OS is the best I've seen from Microsoft, as far as performance and usability. However, I still am vehemently opposed to a desktop needing to look like a freaking Fisher Price kids toy in order to be simple enough for morons to use. I HATE oversized buttons. I HATE round corners. I HATE glowing/fading/wiggling/shifting/shadowy effects. I see no reason a desktop needs to look prettier than my g/f.

I know you can turn it all off, but what's the point? So my 66 y/o mom can surf the collectibles sites while her background wallpaper cycles every 'x' minutes and think she got something for her $299? Pointless.

[Arremis]

However, I still am vehemently opposed to a desktop needing to look like a freaking Fisher Price kids toy in order to be simple enough for morons to use. I HATE oversized buttons. I HATE round corners. I HATE glowing/fading/wiggling/shifting/shadowy effects. I see no reason a desktop needs to look prettier than my g/f.

I know you can turn it all off, but what's the point? So my 66 y/o mom can surf the collectibles sites while her background wallpaper cycles every 'x' minutes and think she got something for her $299? Pointless.

LMAO! Here here! The only reason I'm using Vista Home Basic is because it came with the laptop

[ZexisStryfe]

The majority of video issues I have heard of seem to be with Vista, not Win7. I myself had to turn off all shadows when playing due to the "double allocation" bug with Nvidia cards. Since the upgrade (clean install) I actually get much better framerates (25fps better on average), than with Vista. Now I am sure this is still not as good as with XP, however that isn't because of the OS, its because of DX9 vs. DX11. With Win7 I find the computer itself faster than when it was running WinXP. That's why I am so surprised by John's parser issue.

As for the Fisher Price comment, I have to admit, I chuckled at that. John you remind me of a Security Geek I used to work with who always argued that he never got viruses on his Linux machines but always got them on Windows. Of course with further prodding we learned that his Windows machine was his websurfing box and his Linux box wasn't connected to the outside world. Gee I can't imagine why the Windows box would get viruses...