----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:17
AM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Re: Slow load
and zoning
You can try all of that stuff, but I would think
it's your CPU and video card that's hampering you more than anything. I
ran EQ on a PII 333mhz with an 8MB video card and 8MB accelerator while I was
in Japan. It was slow as molasses. No matter how many options I
turned off. I noticed moderately better performance once I upgraded the
video card. Even on my PIII 800 with 640MB of RAM itwould run everything
but Luclin. Then I upgraded the video card to 128MB and it ran
fine. If you really want to improve performance, upgrade your
video card if at all possible. It can sometimes compensate for a slower
processor.
Wulfric
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 6:32
AM
Subject: [EverQuest] Re: Slow load and
zoning
Thank you very much indeed to everyone who has responded
so far. I
have tweaked the datarate to 7.0 and switched on the caching
to see
if that makes much difference.
We have the basic New Dawn
with the Planes of Power expansion. The
Options screen however states
"Luclin Options" - I don't know why.
As for the PC - maximum RAM
capacity is 384MB and that is what is
installed. There is 50Gb
free on the hard disk. I have noticed that
while loading and zoning
however, the hard disk light is always on
meaning it is doing alot of
work. I suppose this would be the case as
it is loading alot from the
hard disk.
Performance within a zone seems fine on the whole,it is
just initial
loading and in particular the zoning times. Very often,
after waiting
5 minutes, it simply gives up and goes back to the server
screen -
very frustrating!
The only other components that could
be awapped are the hard disk
controller - but I really don't see that
making much difference since
it is working fine, and the video
controller - which is a nVidia Riva
TNT with just 16Mb RAM. We are
running DirectX 9.
Thanks very much again for all of your
suggestions, and I would be
grateful for anytthing else you can
suggest.
Best regards.
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