I have 512MB of memory and the same thrashing
performance from the disk on zoning. I already knew I
needed more video memory but it was excellent to see
the various explanations on this board (good job tech
heads and thanks for the info).
My problem is that I have to use a laptop to play EQ
(I travel for a living) and I can't upgrade my video
card... ATI Rage with 8MB of memory.
I can run in any zone without trees, but if there are
trees forget about it. Why Sony put all those damn
little leafs in that have to be rendered on object in
the landscape is beyond me. Sometimes when I'm
thrashing trying to get by a bunch of trees I'll go
ahead and put my toon on autorun (autocrawl actually)
and I make a bug report asking why Sony had to be so
stupid with landscape features that don't matter.
Make the leafs one solid green circle and the game
would be 100x better for us low video memory players.
Sure, render mobs, render players, render the sky...
all that's cool since that stuff matters to game play,
but when the trees bog me down it makes me mad because
they don't matter at all.
Quwi Changkane, Grandmaster
Fenin Ro
--- Wulfric Rennison <
wulftech@...> wrote:
> The best answer to your question is go with whatever
> your system's motherboard can support. If you're
> running a PII, there is a possibility you might not
> be able to use a 4X AGP card. The max it may
> support is 2X. If that is the case you'll have to
> go with the card that will fit your form factor
> regardless of which one it is. You might even want
> to open the case to make sure you actually HAVe an
> AGP slot and that the graphics aren't built into the
> board. It would suck to buy a card for $200 only to
> find out you can't install it. But all that
> aside, assuming you can use it and either will fit,
> then I'd say yes, go with more memory. I use an ATI
> Radeon 9000 128MB 4X AGP. I've had excellent
> performance with it. But the choice is yours.
> Either way, you'll still get better results.
>
> Wulfric
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: apcooper
> To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:47 PM
> Subject: [EverQuest] Re: Slow load and zoning
>
>
> Thanks very much indeed for that excellent
> explanation!
>
> From what you say then, I would be better off with
> a 128Mb ATI Radeon
> based card than a 64MB nVidia for my money?
>
>
>
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