Thank you GM9 for your reply. I found the section in the FAQ and am making changes as I type this out. Awesome thank you.
As far as the slowdown goes, it's as Drumstix mentioned. I reminds me of when I used EQ1 and used EQPlayNice and WinEQ. Basically EQ2 goes into this mode where it runs at 1fps for maybe 5seconds, then goes back to normal speed.
Here's how I can make it reproduce everytime. Having EQ2 in Windowed mode, and I have open Windows Explorer. Then I move my mouse over the Windows Explorer icon on the taskbar, but I don't click it yet. So EQ2 is still visible. Now the system will stutter and lag out. The FPS will goto 1. Then after about 5 seconds or so, it will kick back in again. Then if I move my mouse back into the EQ2 window, then back over hovering the Windows Explorer one, it won't lag that time.
The only way I know this is related to ProfitUI, is because it doesn't do this with the SOE UI. I've had EQ2MAPS, and many over little odds and ends UI installed. But for Profit, I'm trying it out fresh with no other UIs interfering. My hard drive doesn't splutter or do anything, it's just the framerate drops to 1 FPS.
This is exactly what EQPlayNice did. When the window loses focus, it drops the framerate down to try and save system resources.
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