I am running EverQuest on a PIII 800mhz with 1GB of
RAM and a ATI Radeon 128MB 4X AGP video card. I never saw any
lag on my system pre-Luclin. It's only when they souped up the game engine
for better graphics that my system started lagging. Thus the upgrade to
more RAM and a better video card. Now I run on a cable modem.
There's virtually no lag on zones that existed prior to Luclin. There is
still lag on Luclin, but I can turn the clip plane down to nil and turn off
spell effects (which are annoying anyway) and get almost no lag at
all. However, same system specs with a 64MB video card and was
getting major lag in Bazaar. Now it's pretty smoothe. I plan on
upgrading the processor to a 1Ghz or better next month so I am sure even Bazaar
will be fine.
I still contend that a higher end video card can
compensate for a low end processor. But when you've got both together, EQ
should be flawless.
Wulfric/Raido/Celric/Shifu/Sandahl/Savawulf/Ramsen
Cazic Thule Server
Pseudowulf The Seventh Hammer
Server
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Server
Airbourne
E'ci Server
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:34
AM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Re: video
cards
I'm also running Win ME with 384 megs of ram. It's slowing down now, due to
the fact that my processor is just a Celeron 400 and is 3 years old (time for
an upgrade) but ME has done fine. I can't remember the last time I got the
blue screen of death. I might eventually upgrade to XP Pro (Home edition
doesn't play games very well), but ME is doing just fine for me now.