Performance issuesFollow

HI, I have a bit of a situationa and I was wondering if anyone here could shed some light for me, and if anyone here has experienced the same problems. So, I will begin.

I have a P 3.02 Ghz processor with 512 mb of Ram and a N-Vidia G-Force FX go 5300 64 bit card.

I can Run HL 2, Farcry, Doom 3, FF XI all of them at medium to high with no problems at all. But for some reason EQ 2 is goiving me a headache, I experience serious lag, and or drop in FPS. I have to basically run the game on Extremely high Performance, and even then I experience lag in crowded areas. Now this cannot be my machine can it? surely if it can run the likes of HL 2 and Doom3 then it can run EQ2.

I would like to know if anyone knows of a solution and or has anyone experienced this for themselves. There must be something odd at work here, I am thouroughly emjoying EQ2, but I fear that this lack in stability may force me to leave.

any suggestions?

I'd say 1gig ram is the "TRUE" minimum amount. I have 768 it was playable. but did lag up after a while. with 1gig the choppiness issues are pretty much eradicated.

1GB is a good start but with the EQ2 client program still developing memory leaks, you might want to consider just restarting the PC every 2-3 hours or so.

Case in point: 1GB RAM, 512MB Virtual RAM. EQ2 only takes up barely 500MB of physical RAM but Task Manager [unreliable, I know] shows over 1GB of total ram usage AND free physical RAM is just a few thousand KB. This will happen in certain zones [TS, CoB, Nek/etc] and is most noticeable when the game loads a new particle effects/etc. [2GB RAM is advisable to eliminate most of the performance issues stemming from RAM]

I know it's not just my PC alone as my entire group will start complaining at the same time as all our PCs start texture trashing at the same time. When you're hunting orange ^^ mobs and the healer's "AFK" for 2-3 seconds, it can be bad for the tank.

Still I play on a 1GB PC [6800GT] and a 1GB notebook [ATI mob 9600], both are quite ok if I just take the time to restart every 2-3 hours.

I cannot belive what I have just read, you a customer are quite happy with this situation?, my god. For starters, the The system specs given on the back of the EQ2 box is utter crap, and SOE, you know it. I hope if anyone from SOE were to stumble across this that they would feel bad, as you have clearly made a an attempt to gather mass and casual market support by placing reasonable system specs on the box. This is not on, if you say it will run on a certain system. Then it should!, no excuses. Point number 2, having gotten the game running ASPHE SCHOLAR you are quite happy to have to restart and experience techincal diffficulties evry few hours?, you shouldn't be so forgiving. This is a MMORPG, not barbies horse riding challange 6, you can't just re-start when in the middle of a raid ect:, you will find it hard to get into groups when suffering from the above.

To be honest I am impressed with EQ, and I was enjoying it, but the simple fact is (running on a Laptop) that I cannot afford to get 2 gigs of Ram at this time of the year, and SONY! you said it would run on my 3.02 GHz 512, and 64 bit machine, well it doesn't and you owe me an apology. And as I see it many others to. Be honest with your games not, decieving!

It may seem to have fixed it but if you zone enough it will lag up again. And its zoning that makes it start lagging not playing in the same zone. I can be in any city zone when I start and I have no lag (AMD +2000 and 9600xt and 512 mem) But everytime I zone it gets just that much worse. I think even with 2 gigs of ram you would reach a limit to the number of zones you could make before it started lagging again. better programing would be a better fix I would think.

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I cannot belive what I have just read, you a customer are quite happy with this situation?, my god. For starters, the The system specs given on the back of the EQ2 box is utter crap, and SOE, you know it. I hope if anyone from SOE were to stumble across this that they would feel bad, as you have clearly made a an attempt to gather mass and casual market support by placing reasonable system specs on the box. This is not on, if you say it will run on a certain system. Then it should!, no excuses. Point number 2, having gotten the game running ASPHE SCHOLAR you are quite happy to have to restart and experience techincal diffficulties evry few hours?, you shouldn't be so forgiving. This is a MMORPG, not barbies horse riding challange 6, you can't just re-start when in the middle of a raid ect:, you will find it hard to get into groups when suffering from the above.

To be honest I am impressed with EQ, and I was enjoying it, but the simple fact is (running on a Laptop) that I cannot afford to get 2 gigs of Ram at this time of the year, and SONY! you said it would run on my 3.02 GHz 512, and 64 bit machine, well it doesn't and you owe me an apology. And as I see it many others to. Be honest with your games not, decieving!

Well, at first you did ask for a solution so I gave you one. Sorry you didn't catch it. Don't play on a laptop. The requirements are to stiff for most laptops.

But then you went into how SOE duped us all and that if it says 64MB then you should be able to play it at 64 MB blah, blah, some words, blah , blah. SOE sucks and are liars.

But it simply isn't thier fault, you wanna play with minimum specs expect minimum results.

The Solution is to upgrade!!!!

Edited, Mon Dec 20 13:33:12 2004 by Jute

I found this to be rather useful..

Anyone having issues would probably love to read it.