EverQuest Tips

Sorry, this solution only works on Linux, but I am sure there is something similar to do on Mac if you are experiencing these problem.

EQ has trouble sometimes with Dual Core processors, and this can actually cause graphic anomolies like character models dissapearing, animating too fast or not animating at all, or the models warping. Also can cause the game speed to seem super fast, or juttery as thing will move too fast for a moment and then warp back to where its supposed to be (can easily see it in the clouds) EQ has some built in fuctionaly for this, but it seems it can be ignored since its within a wine emulation. The solution is to set the CPU Affinity from the linux level. This forces EQ to be run with ONLY 1 core of your multi-core processor.

And here is how you do it. (in ubuntu atleast):

Step 1:  You need a tool called schedtool. Open a terminal and type this command (in Ubuntu):~$sudo apt-get install schedtool
(Alternatively you can use the package manager to install. schedtool is in the Ubuntu repositories)

Step 2: Run EQ with a CPU Affinity Mask. To do this you need to launch EQ through schedtool itself. here is how. run this command in the terminal for example:
:~$schedtool -a 0x1 -e /opt/cxgames/bin/wine --cx-app EverQuest.exe --bottle {your-Bottle-Name-Here}

{your-Bottle-Name-Here} being the bottle name in which you installed Everquest.

/opt/cxgames/bin/wine is the command to run a COG execuateble with the private-multi user install. you may need to check the documentation to see how to run the command in a single user install.

You can watch your System Monitor to verify its only running on 1 processor. (System->Administration->System Monitor). To run the process on the second Core of the CPU, change the first part of the command to :~$schedtool -a 0x2.
If you run a quad core, core 3 is 0x4, and core 4 is 0x8

schedtool docs here: http://linux.die.net/man/8/schedtool

Step 3: If it works out, you can simply add your command into a shortcut on your desktop to launch EQ1 with. (Right click on desktop, choose "Create Launcher..."

Good Luck.