Will I be able to run EQ2 well with this setup?
Athlon XP 3200 Barton
Gforce 6800 GT (256 Meg)
1.25 gig 2100 DDR Memory
80 gig 7200 RMP Maxtor Hard Drive
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Goto the EQII.com and there is additional information about system requirements. Your system looks good. However, keep in mind that 512 ram is for the system and 126 is for grahics. With that said, you'll have to tweek your game settings to get the most from what you have. For instance if your running windows XP and have it set to show all the nice eye candy and run additional program in the background it will really slow things down in the game. The more RAM, such as 1Gig, will reduce lag more consistently. The better the graphics, such as 512, which is expensive, your game will play smoother. Some cards are more realible. If you choose to up grade your system, which is easy, RAM is not that expensive to upgrade and often worth it. Graphic card are a matter of opinion and there is a huge selection, shop carfully. Just becuse they are expensive doesn't mean they are worth it. Most graphic cards have a bench test comparasion to one another. Consumer reports has a good list of how they compare in price and performance. Good luck!
It runs well on a 2.0 GHZ 128-meg GeForce 4800 (4600? Honestly don't remember- point is it's not terribly new) with 768 megs or RAM, although I do have to turn down or off some of the graphics settings.
You'll be fine. Trust me.
You'll be fine. Trust me.
(wonders about his own set-up)
2.2GHZ
128-meg GeForceFX 5500
512 ram
2.2GHZ
128-meg GeForceFX 5500
512 ram
Kouranx - I'd go for 1Gb RAM
Aegis - That pisses over my system and mine's smooth as anything with settings high. No problems
Aegis - That pisses over my system and mine's smooth as anything with settings high. No problems
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Yeah. you're prolly right... guess I'm heading to compusa tomorrow..
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Question for all you beta people will the system below be able to run max setting with no lag?
AMD 64 3500+
Asus neo 2 revision 2.0
2gig 3200 ddr.
radeon 9800xt
i would really like to beable to run max grphics on eq2. this is a new system i built just to play eq 2 on.
AMD 64 3500+
Asus neo 2 revision 2.0
2gig 3200 ddr.
radeon 9800xt
i would really like to beable to run max grphics on eq2. this is a new system i built just to play eq 2 on.
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The devs have said that no graphic card today will be able to run all graphics options maxed smoothly. They did this on purpose so that as new cards come on the market in the future, the game will keep up and still look even better. However, even without all the graphics maxed, it looks and plays very well. So I wouldn't worry about it too much. I just upgraded to 1 Gig of DDR400 memory from 512 Meg, and the performance improvements are amazing. My other stats are AMD Athlon 2400, Radeon 9800 Pro 128M, ABit NF7 Mainboard. As you can see, nothing too pricey (except maybe the vid card) but the game looks exceptional.
The beta runs great on a amd200xp with 1 gig and a 128meg radeon 9800 pro.So if your system is better it wont run bad
thats 2000xp lol on a cheep ecs k7s5a mobo
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Yeah. you're prolly right... guess I'm heading to compusa tomorrow
Noooooo!!
Don't go to RapeUSA!
www.pricewatch.com man! You'll get it for half price if not better.
Today, I ran around with praformance settings at extreme with most options picked. I could run around a few areas with no noticable frame rate loss, but city zones and areas with more than one other player really slowed things down. But as stated above, SOE designed the game so that no system on the market at present could run the game smoothly with settings that high. But god, it was buetiful.
AMD Athlon XP 3200
2.19 Ghz
1gb RAM
Radon 9800xt 256mb
AMD Athlon XP 3200
2.19 Ghz
1gb RAM
Radon 9800xt 256mb
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No one can run EQ2 at all max settings (extreme quality). I have
All the new hardware:
Amd Fx53 @ 2.6ghz
Geforce 6800 ultra @ 450/1200
2 Gb Corsair XMS pro 2-2-2-5
2x 74 Gb raptors in Raid 0
I run it on High settings atm with all the reg settings set to max basically and it runs pretty good but a 512 MB video card will be needed to max out everything and even then it would more than likely be laggy at this point.
Biscuet
Beta 2
All the new hardware:
Amd Fx53 @ 2.6ghz
Geforce 6800 ultra @ 450/1200
2 Gb Corsair XMS pro 2-2-2-5
2x 74 Gb raptors in Raid 0
I run it on High settings atm with all the reg settings set to max basically and it runs pretty good but a 512 MB video card will be needed to max out everything and even then it would more than likely be laggy at this point.
Biscuet
Beta 2
2 posts
Funny your system runs like that. I was running it on a
AMD 2700+
1 GIG ram
256 ATI 9550
Wide open with very little lag. I was in an area with about 70 other players before I noticed any major lag. I did hear lots of people complain about lag though. We are running DSL on a router with both and me and the wife. We never ran across any of the lag others talked about though. Starting to wonder how much internet conections have to do with this major lag factor on games running. Any ideas on the lag VS connection please let me know what you think.
AMD 2700+
1 GIG ram
256 ATI 9550
Wide open with very little lag. I was in an area with about 70 other players before I noticed any major lag. I did hear lots of people complain about lag though. We are running DSL on a router with both and me and the wife. We never ran across any of the lag others talked about though. Starting to wonder how much internet conections have to do with this major lag factor on games running. Any ideas on the lag VS connection please let me know what you think.
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There is a difference between Lag and Graphics Lag. Lag happens when there are too many players in one area and the servers cannot handle them all. Graphics lag is what we are talking about here, and it happens with the best systems if you run on Maximum quality. I find I can run smoothly on high quality, and don't really notice the difference between high and maximum. I only bog down with graphics lag in the Freeport (and Qeynos) zones on Maximum quality, outdoors it doesn't seem to be an issue.
My system
3.2 Ghz Pentium 4
2 Gigs of Dual Channel ram
Geforce 6800 GT 256 megs of ram
My system
3.2 Ghz Pentium 4
2 Gigs of Dual Channel ram
Geforce 6800 GT 256 megs of ram
Senseijundt wrote:
We are running DSL on a router with both and me and the wife. We never ran across any of the lag others talked about though. Starting to wonder how much internet conections have to do with this major lag factor on games running. Any ideas on the lag VS connection please let me know what you think.
I've watched the network usage on my own gateway with 3 people behind it running EQ in crowded zones. The network traffic is almost trivial. Zoning is a bit of a spike but unless you're on dial-up or a really really bad broadband connect I don't think you'll have issues with bandwidth.
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Will my set up run?
2.66GHz Pent 4
1Gb ram
ATI Radeon x800 256mb
112gig
=)
Yeah the new x800 radeon is insane, runs awesome!
2.66GHz Pent 4
1Gb ram
ATI Radeon x800 256mb
112gig
=)
Yeah the new x800 radeon is insane, runs awesome!
2100 DDR RAM? That's some pretty slow RAM.
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Is running everquest2 more dependent on a good processor, graphics card, or amount of RAM?
Scholar
16 posts
EQ2 is very CPU and Memory dependant, wouldnt run with less than 1GB myself
As for graphics cards, on the beta forums lots of people with 'uber' graphics cards where complaining that the game was unplayable at high resolutions (jerky game etc.)
For most of them you could see that they had crap cpu and memory configs and had just bought a power card thinking this should give them all they need.
Ive got a 2.6 p4 (800mhz fsb) and 1.5 gb memory and a 9600 pro 128mb card
Game runs very well on high options
Point is EQ2 runs best on a well balanced system
Bupa
As for graphics cards, on the beta forums lots of people with 'uber' graphics cards where complaining that the game was unplayable at high resolutions (jerky game etc.)
For most of them you could see that they had crap cpu and memory configs and had just bought a power card thinking this should give them all they need.
Ive got a 2.6 p4 (800mhz fsb) and 1.5 gb memory and a 9600 pro 128mb card
Game runs very well on high options
Point is EQ2 runs best on a well balanced system
Bupa
6 posts
I know this is getting annoying, but if someone could evaluate my situation with these spec's please.
Athlon 64 3400+ <2.2g>
1.24gigs ram DDR i think...
Radeon 9800XT 256m ram
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Thank you!
Athlon 64 3400+ <2.2g>
1.24gigs ram DDR i think...
Radeon 9800XT 256m ram
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Thank you!
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