Actually its only the ATI Radeon 9000. It's a 128MB DDR 2X/4X AGP. There is, however, a step up from it. The ATI Radeon 9700 which is a 128MB DDR 8X AGP card. It's $150 more though. And being 8X does not fit the form factor for my PIII motherboard. So essentially I bought the best card I could for my system. I imagine after I upgrade to a 1.2Ghz PIII CPU that EverQuest should have no problems at all.

and I do run Win ME.

Wulfric

----- Original Message -----

From: LAINE. Mikael (Nol)

To: 'EverQuest@yahoogroups.com'

Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:23 AM

Subject: RE: [EverQuest] Re: video cards

No shit =P Your graphic card beats all released cards from GeForce =P GeForce FX will be better tho.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wulfric Rennison [mailto:wulftech@...]
Sent: den 9 januari 2003 21:29
To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Re: video cards

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.

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