Why is this? Framerate seems to randomly drop very low

[Ilavatar]

I'll be running along fine at 20-30 fps and suddenly things will drop to 2-3 fps or even 1! An fps of 1 basically means zero.This isn't correlated with change in terrain or zone or anything in the game like combat. I check the processes in Windows Task Manager for CPU use and nothing seems odd there.If I wait for a minute or two, it comes back to normal.Any suggestions? This only happens in EQ2 that I can notice.

[Maelwys]

I have this same issue. I don't see any processes chewing up CPU/Memory during the fps drop either.

[Zosimos]

<p>I am getting the same thing. Im running a mobility radeon 3650, 4gb ram. windows7 x64, core 2 duo 2.0ghz</p><p>My internet connetion is strong and stable. No other applications running in background. I have tried turning multi core support off and setting affinity to cpu0 and cpu 1 and that  seems to help for awhile. not quite sure as to why but thought I would give it a shot. There really is no indication what so ever of what could be causeing this.</p><p>I have also tried a clean install from disc with no ui addons. I would apreciate if someone could point me in the right direction as to what might be going on. Im in the IT field so I know what im doing but when it comes to games and there configurations its beyond me. All my other current gen game seem to work just fine.</p>

[Raein]

<p>Are your logs on?  Does it happen if the logs are off?</p><p>I had this problem when my logs wrote to a SSD, turns our some SSDs do not support concurrent writes.  I moved my log files to a standard HDD and the frame rate problem cleared up.</p>

[Zosimos]

<p>I think i fixed it. I was sure by default pixel shader 3.0 was turned off. For some reason mine was checked on and since i disabled I havent had any major issues like i was having. I dont have a ssd drive so I dont think that was a problem. Thanks for the suggestion though. I really didnt think anyone would even look at this post.</p>