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This is a duplicate of a post I made into the Technical Forum on Destiny Guild's website. I was asked by regular eqmac posters in Destiny to copy that post to this forum. I am not a regular on eqmac, so somebody here may have already pointed this tip out. Also, I am not sure I have posted it in the right place (apologies if not). I also am not sure of the policies on this forum regarding screenshots. The post uses several. They are compressed to be quite small in download size though. Once again, sorry if I have broken some rules, but the folks in Destiny suggested I share this with the whole eqmac community.

Guide now follows.
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Edited by EQMac Admin - Post was turned into a guide - CLICK HERE to view the guide!

--Addenda--
I don't play any characters with Tracking, so this had not occurred to me. But, Lyrad has used this info to offset his viewport to one side also, so he can have the tall track window outside his view of Norrath.

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--TigerTugger McTog - Feral Lord <DESTINY>
--Soylent Blue - Mana Battery, Class Necrosis <DESTINY>

Wow!

That has to be one of the MOST helpful tips i've ever read.

Thank you.

--j4e

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Gael Shademaser

"there is too much blood in my caffeine system"

All hail Tiggertugger, lord of graphical-lag-reducing!

I will be sure to optimize my interface once I get home from school.

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Mordainn, Berserker of Nameless
<Unyielding>

Formerly Irrik of Shield of Norrath

Aye - this is VERY informative, thank you TigerTugger!

It will be posted as a guide as well, gimme a few days.

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Khama Khameillion lvl 52 Illusionist / 250 Grandmaster Jeweler of Sullon Zek
Khaamma lvl 60 Phantasmist / 181 Jeweler of Al'Kabor

this IS the best tip ever posted that im aware of, it has DRAMATICALLY reduced my lag to insignificant amout, thus improving my game experience tremendously.

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hunter lyrad cypresshade forest stalker + officer of destiny + r. f. g.

I forgot to mention in my main post that, just like other aspects of the UI layout and so forth, any changes you make to your viewport only apply to the character being played at the time. You will need to duplicate these changes for each alt you play.

Also, again like other UI customisations, the viewport setting is only stored to disk when EQ successfully quits. So, I'd recommend that once you have it set up how you like, log out then quit the game to make sure the settings get saved. If you go LD, crash out or get the sound bug in the meantime, then you will have to set everything up all over again.

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--TigerTugger McTog - Feral Lord <DESTINY>
--Soylent Blue - Mana Battery, Class Necrosis <DESTINY>

Even on gem-studded machines it's helpful.

I've used this on my G5 when I've had problems. Not nearly as dramatic as the G4, but it's still nice.

I've been using /viewport for awhile, but never thought of using it for tradeskilling, that's pretty nice.

Wow thanks for the info!

Lyrad, what setup do you use to accommodate the tracking window?

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Kaedari

- 62 Warder
Officer of <Shield of Norrath>
WoW beta tester

I use /viewport on my G4 tower (not on my 'Book) and had net even thought about setting up the hotkeys. What a GREAT idea. I will be setting them up this evening. That tiny window should make skilling much easier.

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Elder SunRa Wosret, Khati Sha Feral Lord
Killer of gods, eater of gnomes.
Venerable Sekhmet Geb, Woodie Storm Warden
Killer of grass snakes, baker of gnomes

Live fast, die young and leave a magnificent looking corpse.

ROCK ON! Kills on my G4 Cube 450! GeForce 2MX is lovin it!

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Waamblem of Sanctuary, lv 63 Ranger - I will celebrate 65 one day.
http://sanctuary.guildportal.com/
"For Honor and Valor"

/viewport 135 50 770 550
ibook g4 800mhz 1024x768
standard eq ui shown

before and after shown below:



you will have even better results with a larger monitor

hope this helps kae

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hunter lyrad cypresshade forest stalker + officer of destiny + r. f. g.

This is such a cool trick, can't wait to play with it when I get home tonight!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

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The Shadow Hands will live forever!

Sounds like an Indian dessert. Mmmm, sticky khaama with mango.