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You are VERY short on memory (RAM). You are running Windows XP, I presume? If you've seen any of my replies in the other posts on this subject, it is my experience that running anything but XP itself on a computer with 512 Mb RAM (or less) is rather optimistic. When you add to that that you are using up to 128 of those 512 on video, there's just not enough left to do a decent job of running the application.

The quick fix is to buy another 512 Mb RAM, the next step up is to get an nVidia 6600 GT or better (or the corresponding ATI model - someone else will tell you what that is) graphics card, and the third step is to upgrade to the best processor your motherboard will handle.
If you do that, you should get a significant performance increase for - relatively - few bucks.

www.tomshardware.com will give you a LOT of answers on both state-of-the-art and performance maximisation.

Good luck

It will run fine with a bit more ram, not at the best graphic settings of course, but with lowered ones you should have no zoning ills of that magnitude...

...assuming your computer isnt mucked up with tons of programs slowing it down at the same time you are running EQ.

When traveling I play on my laptop. Lame Intel Video, 1.6 gig Mobile Centrino and 1 gig ram. Runs great! I set options to the lowest settings and models. When I upgraded to the 1 gig of ram it made a HUGE difference.




Edited, May 21st 2007 8:42am by gaflack

first check to be sure you have an AGP slot since you have on board video, if you do get a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro great card for EQ for around 60 bucks from the company that lays eggs (hint) Go to all classic models, turn sound off, turn off spell effects /showspelleffects off, run the game at 800 X 600 resolution, mip mapping on, high for quality this has helped someone with the same problem you face a lot, if you dont have an AGP slot your just screwed with that machine.

The ATI Radeon 9600 pro chip is so great because it dont require extra power from the power supply the Geforce 6600 GT does, since it is a budget machine your power supply most likely is going to be low watts 200-240 ish

If you get the card make sure you turn off vertex shaders (takes a lot of processing power) and pixel shaders 2.0 and the new water under EQ advanced display tab you can keep 1.1 and 1.4 pixel shaders

Good Luck

Comcast, but I play off a router.

Wireless router? If so, theres probably at least a wild chance the wireless internet may not be helping your cause if it is giving you a weak signal or if some other device is causing interference with it. (I live out of a hotel 80% of the year, I've had those things affect me way too often.)

3 out of my 5 computers play through wireless with no problems at all. You problem is definately related to low RAM. I added 1 gig to my laptop to get me to 2 gigs and it made a huge difference in how fast I zone. If you have the option to pull the half gig out and put in 2 1 gigs to get you to 2 gigs you'll be the happiest.

Reho

From my experience, the gains in replacing the 512 and making it 2.0 gigs versus 1.5 would be minimal considering around that point you'll get a much lower returning performance increase as other parts of the computer will become your new bottleneck.