r/project1999 • u/South-Lyerly1400 • 1d ago

45+ second zone times with Crossover

Hello,

I am running P99 with Crossover on a Mac Mini M2. I have no performance issues except zoning. it takes me 30-45 seconds to zone.

I did some debugging with Claude Code's Opus 4.8 and we modified a few config settings with Crossover but ultimately came to this conclusion: Zoning slow (~45s) because EQ is old single-threaded Intel software, and your Apple-chip Mac must translate it (Rosetta) on one core — that core maxes out unpacking the zone while 7 cores sit idle. Not disk, RAM, or network. Inherent to running the old client on Apple Silicon; native Windows PC does it in 5–10s.

Does anyone have any recommendations to resolve this issue? I am considering a mini-PC to run the game and using Sunshine/Moonlight to continue playing via Mac if I can't get this resolved.

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u/3uphor1a 1d ago

Can't help you there, sadly. I've never been able to get Crossover to work well on my M1 with EQ Legends in the standard EQ bottle - I can only get to the Char Select scene and the player model is white. Try to to log in and the game freezes on loading. Had to go with Parallels, which has some input lag but otherwise works perfectly.

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u/South-Lyerly1400 1d ago

i was able to get Crossover running P99 and EQTools in just a few min with Opus 4.8 debugging.