I doubled the amount of RAM in my machine and the difference was minimal.
Just make sure that your hard drive is up to snuff. When I did that HD
upgrade my zone times were cut almost in half.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Hitz [SMTP:Rich.Hitz@...]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 2:28 AM
> To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Stein Quest
>
> From: Rich Hitz <Rich.Hitz@...>
>
> This is an OLD conversation for me. However, I can cut to the quick as I
> know it by heart. Lucky you!
>
> My wife and I have 2 HP Pavilion PCs, standard issue. The only difference
> between the 2 is that her PC has 64MB of RAM more than I do. We both have
> 2
> seperate ISP accounts with the same provider and are on 2 different phone
> lines. Swapping lines does nothing to help me. The UOTracer program shows
> me
> in the green from my PC to CerfNet. Yes, CerfNet is usually Yellow to just
> under, but it is that way for my wife to.
>
> I have more RAM on order (my mother is getting me an upgrade for
> Christmas,
> and it will be the only thing I get from them. hehe.) which should be here
> soon. When it gets here, my zone time should be alot less and I should be
> able to do it that way. I already have a 5th level monk over there that I
> don't really care if his faction goes down the crapper.
>
>
>
> Story Time w/ Bahir
> You may get a big chuckle out of this, but I no longer even try to get on
> the boats anymore. I was stuck on the boat, back when there was only one
> boat in OOT, for over 2 hours Real Time because I couldn't finish zoning
> fast enough to get out of OOT.
> LOADING PLEASE WAIT.....
> You have entered Butcherblock
> LOADING PLEASE WAIT....
> You have entered the Ocean of Tears
> Rinse, recycle, repeat...
>
> I didn't even get other people shouting that the boat was here. The only
> reason I got off the boat was because a GM standing on the Pier in
> Freeport
> teleported me from OOT after I petitioned.
> YOU have been SUMMONED by the GODS!!!! <~ I will never forget this
> phrase. The text was yellow.
> LOADING PLEASE WAIT....
>
> That was pretty interesting because when I first asked, he said he had to
> be
> in the same zone as me. After he found out I had just left Freeport and he
> would need to wait another 40 minutes til I was zoning into Freeport
> again,
> "Miraculously" I was summoned.
>
> Heh! Just after that I created a Wood Elf Ranger and got onto the boat
> again. <~stupid idea!
> He is still in OOT at the first Island after leaving BB, for the 2nd time.
> He has no food or water and the newbie sword. LOL!
>
>
> --
> Bahir
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Farr, Robert [mailto:Robert.Farr@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 11:47 AM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Stein Quest
>
>
> From: "Farr, Robert" <Robert.Farr@...>
>
> The single biggest improvement to game speed I have seen personally was
> when
> I upgraded my EIDE hard drive to an Ultra DMA hard drive. The difference
> in
> zone load time was astounding.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Pifer [SMTP:bpifer@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:46 PM
> > To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> > Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Stein Quest
> >
> > From: Brian Pifer <bpifer@...>
> >
> > WOW! That is a really long time. I almost always am back before the
> > primary
> > looting rights have expired. I am curious, what hardware do you use? I
> > use
> > a PIII 450 with a 770ultra card and I have cable modem service.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Rich Hitz <Rich.Hitz@...>
> >
> > <snip>
> > For my mule, I create a human fighter and max out the str. Then I
> > hunt in front of Qeynos to hit lvl 2. This is just for comfort, a lvl 1
> > has
> > a better than even chance of making the kill. After that, just go kill
> > fishes until a corpse is found. Log out. Log back in with your main
> > character and loot the corpse. No fuss. No muss. No KOS.
> > <snip>
> > I would do this, but it takes me 2 minutes to log out, and another 3
> > minutes
> > to log back in as the primary. By that amount of time, someone else has
> > looted the corpse or it has been "eaten" by the system.
> >
> >
>
>