Everquest and hardware requirements!!?

[BoboKatt]

Hi all,

This is directed at any of you that actually play EQ. I play a dozen of other games and run video editing software and also run massive database queries at times for work. What absolutely brings my system down to a crawl is freaking EQ. MY current setup is an AMD Barton 2500xp running 1 GIG or 3200 RAM, ATI 9800 Pro, and a 80 GIG HD 7200 RPM/2meg. After the last release the game sucks the big one. I can no longer run high quality models. Zoning is not a problem at all.. that smokes... also I have generally more than 1 account running on the same machine either using Eqwindows or the built in features now available for EQ.

Any suggestions on gear? I am in the process of installing my new AMD 64/3200 939 on a MSI Neo2 Plat mobo.. same RAM, HD and Video card.. have a 300 WATT Antec PS. I am just worried this just wont be enough... although it should be a grand improvement for my other apps I use.

I tried OC'ing the 2500 but it really makes little difference. My current ATI 9800 pro is a 128 meg variant -- would a 256 6800 GT or X800 be worth it or are we talking strict CPU speed here?

Thanks

 

[Cook1]

Dude, if you're double boxing then expect it to be slow. Have you tried OCing your 2500+? And if so, what were your results?

would a 256 6800 GT or X800 be worth it or are we talking strict CPU speed here?

We talking EQ2 or EQ? EQ 9800 Pro is more then enough. I'd up the memory if anything. For EQ Memory = Video Card in importance.

 

[BoboKatt]

Aye I have OC'ed up to 2800xp specs with some marginal gains and yes it is for EQ the original. Before the new OOW expansion I could run two versions easily but now it's hard. Just trying to figure out if it's a hardware limitation or if it's just the game plain and simple.. huge memory hog and not the most efficiently coded of games LOL.

Also again say good bye to all the models and video quality set to high. Also they introduced new shadow effects and much more and I don't know one person able to run that stuff.

 

[Cook1]

I ran everything at ease on 1.5gigs, 9800 Pro and a 2.42GHz. My EQ2 should be here tomarrow, so I kinda stopped playing. And yes, it's the game. They make it extremely demanding, and when you try to double box...well, you don't find many people who double on one machine anymore. Usually they fire up their lappy. So no worries mate, you're system is fine for EQ and EQ2. It's just how they design the game and its expansions.

 

[thorin]

Geez I thought the original (and expanded) EQ had gone quietly in to the night, since EQ2 and other newer games (like WoW, STU, etc) came out.

Thorin

 

[BoboKatt]

Lies.. it will never die