I guess what I dream about in a machine is one that will let me run
EQ with everything turned on, and use anti-aliasing. That is a very
fast, memory loaded machine on the new Radeon ubercard. With multiple
hard drives in a RAID array.
Those machines begin at about $5000. Now I don't mind driving my
Hundai Accent a few more years, and paying for such a machine.
However, my wife may object, as well as some of those who wait each
month for a piece of my paycheck.
Now if I drop the wife and family, move into a very cheap studio
apartment, within walking distance of work, I could have my machine
with no trouble at all. But I kind of like the family, so I will
still dream. Perhaps, someday.
Barto
--- In
EverQuest@yahoogroups.com, "Wulfric Rennison" <wulftech@e...>
wrote:
> 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
> Kenjite/Petrus Tunare Server
> Airbourne E'ci Server
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Melanie Johnson
> To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> 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.