Its been a while but I think my computer was a Pentium 200mhz, with 512mb memory, and a 16meg S3 Virge Video card, when I started playing Eq.
Currently using a P4 3ghz, 2gig mem, 256mb ATI 9600 and thinking of upgradeing for PCI Express Video. Amazing how much power the EQ eats now.
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P2, 350 MHZ
Voodoo PCI graphics card with 16mb!!!! memory
128 Ram, updated to 256 at some point, and god it made an improvement on the luclin models.
My, oh my, how times have changed.
Edited, Wed Jan 4 13:33:37 2006 by Thoryndar
Voodoo PCI graphics card with 16mb!!!! memory
128 Ram, updated to 256 at some point, and god it made an improvement on the luclin models.
My, oh my, how times have changed.
Edited, Wed Jan 4 13:33:37 2006 by Thoryndar
233 mhz
256mb ram
64 mb video.
Couldn't understand why everyone was walking around nekkid!
256mb ram
64 mb video.
Couldn't understand why everyone was walking around nekkid!
Pentium 133?
64Meg memory? maybe 128?
Vodoo3000 video card, still have it, in a K6-2 / 500 that was the upgrade for the first one, lol. Last time I patched it, EQ would still run, only in 800X600, and with almost everything turned off, but it ran.
Still have an old Dell laptop that ran EQ when we first got it, like 4Meg mem on the built in video.
Edited, Wed Jan 4 13:51:23 2006 by Fallonn
Edited, Wed Jan 4 13:56:34 2006 by Fallonn
64Meg memory? maybe 128?
Vodoo3000 video card, still have it, in a K6-2 / 500 that was the upgrade for the first one, lol. Last time I patched it, EQ would still run, only in 800X600, and with almost everything turned off, but it ran.
Still have an old Dell laptop that ran EQ when we first got it, like 4Meg mem on the built in video.
Edited, Wed Jan 4 13:51:23 2006 by Fallonn
Edited, Wed Jan 4 13:56:34 2006 by Fallonn
P1 133mhz, Voodoo with a whopping 16M on the card and a blazing 256M memory!
Of course, this was just post-Kunark and things were a bit more simplistic then... ahhh the good ole days when you could spend an hour trying to recover your corpse from the newbie zone at Qeynos, and a cleric could make a decent living offering binds for donations.
Of course, this was just post-Kunark and things were a bit more simplistic then... ahhh the good ole days when you could spend an hour trying to recover your corpse from the newbie zone at Qeynos, and a cleric could make a decent living offering binds for donations.
Started with a AMD 2600 /512mm /budget 9600/5600 rpm HDD a year ago.
upgraded to a AMD 3700 /2gm /sli 2x6800 /10000rpm HDD about 2 months ago, it really is over kill. I can right click mouse spin as fast as possible at the main bank during mass mgb with no lag. That makes me smile. I love it when I am the last of my group to zone and the first to pop thanks t3 hehe
upgraded to a AMD 3700 /2gm /sli 2x6800 /10000rpm HDD about 2 months ago, it really is over kill. I can right click mouse spin as fast as possible at the main bank during mass mgb with no lag. That makes me smile. I love it when I am the last of my group to zone and the first to pop thanks t3 hehe
First time I played the game was in the kunark era. I think my PC was amd k6 500 megahertz 64megs of ram voodoo 3. I remember upgrading during the velious era to a ati all in wonder 32 meg card and it ran super fast. However when luclin came out it ran like crap (If im not mistaken luclin was very buggy when it first came out).
Anyways yea thats about right.
Anyways yea thats about right.
Hi
Techincally, the first time I ever played EQ, which was shortly after release, my PC was a celeron 200 Mhz, onboard video card, and 128MB of RAM IIRC. Howerver, it played like crap, so I re-installed UO and went back to that...didn't pick up EQ again until 1.5 years ago, or so.
I'm not sure about my very first because it was the ex's computer and I'm not certain what was in it. Some low end Pentium (300, I think?) with integrated video and maybe 32 or 64megs of memory.
After she was out the door and I wanted to keep playing, I bought a smokin' refurbished K6-2 500 MHz Compaq with 64megs memory and integrated graphics (8megs?). I think after Luclin, I bought it some more memory (256!) and then a cheap GeForce PCI card. It was a friggin' major pain in the *** to get that integrated video turned off. Still, it never ran Luclin "well" and I stayed with all old school models until I eventually upgraded that piece o' crap box around the PoP era. Never will buy Compaq/HP again.
After she was out the door and I wanted to keep playing, I bought a smokin' refurbished K6-2 500 MHz Compaq with 64megs memory and integrated graphics (8megs?). I think after Luclin, I bought it some more memory (256!) and then a cheap GeForce PCI card. It was a friggin' major pain in the *** to get that integrated video turned off. Still, it never ran Luclin "well" and I stayed with all old school models until I eventually upgraded that piece o' crap box around the PoP era. Never will buy Compaq/HP again.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
If I remember, it was a P2 400. I don't recall how much RAM, but I'm guessing 128meg.
Some people are like slinkies, they aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
Started in Kunark Era with
AMD K6 200 with
48 megs RAM
16 meg Video card
and a poor quality dialup connection.
AMD K6 200 with
48 megs RAM
16 meg Video card
and a poor quality dialup connection.
Why, in my day, Sonny, we used to play EverQuest on an Etch A Sketch.
Barefoot.
In the snow.
And we liked it!
Barefoot.
In the snow.
And we liked it!
Jophiel says "I was pwning newbs on my abacus long before you kiddies were born".
IBM model 365, 180 Mhz, 4 meg video card. Ran EQ quite well, although zoning took about 4 minutes. Actually bought it - used - just for EQ, since I was a Mac person at the time.
256 MB ram
Now I think somethings wrong if I can't zone in 15 seconds...
edit: added RAM specs
Edited, Wed Jan 4 16:15:08 2006 by Skua
256 MB ram
Now I think somethings wrong if I can't zone in 15 seconds...
edit: added RAM specs
Edited, Wed Jan 4 16:15:08 2006 by Skua
I started just after Kunark went live. It was a pentium 200mhz with 64 megs of system ram and two video cards. One normal 4 meg pci card and another patchthrough dedicated 4meg 3d moster card. I was one of the lucky ones with an actual 17" monitor (most people I knew were running 15" monitors).
December 1999 I built a screaming PII 400 with 128 megs of ram and a Voodoo3000 16 meg video card. Rnning Windows98 and a 15 inch crt monitor. Until luclin came out I ran everything full and it ran great.
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