Ok you got me, now I am on the floor lauging in my
cube drawing quite the crowd........GOOD ONE..

--- "mlockridge01 <MLockridge01@...>"
<MLockridge01@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

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