Friday: I upgraded my computer, fresh windows xp sp3, 2 gigs of ram, 80 gig hard drive split into 2 partitions. I was fighting making default_old UI to work, dummy me I had an extra default_old folder in uifiles before the files lol.
Saturday: I was using the ati radeon 9600 pro driver from Microsoft. I noticed pictures were not sharp and video was horrible. I played EQ just a little.
Sunday: I installed catalyst 8.12 drivers as recommended by EQ. Wow EQ has never looked so clear and crisp. I buckled down and hit 75 on beasty.
On a side note, I installed kaspersky antivirus 2009, the most recent version from there website using the cd key. I'm very impressed with this program. I can turn it off before playing EQ with no problems. It is very light on system resources.