Help with Lag, and my graphics cardFollow

I recently got EV2, and I seem to be getting a lot of lag. My system specs are:
512 Ram
256 Nivida Graphics Card
Broadband Internet Connection

I was wondering, if I were to turn down the graphics would I recieve less Lag? or is it just my server? (Permafrost)

Also how would I lower the graphics on my card, any and all help will be appreciated

~Good Gaming~
-Baladir

Edited, Wed Dec 29 00:48:35 2004 by BaladirII

Yes. get 1gig. Btw, "lag" has nothing to do with your hardware. "lag" is an internet term for a poor connection, example. server is about to crash so everything appears to be going slo mo and chat has a long delay to send. THAT is lag. what you describe is video card slowdown or choppiness.

CPU speed? Front-side bus speed? RAM speed? Which GeForce card do you have with 256MB? More than just RAM and video RAM matter with this.

Also, internet connection has nothing to do with choppy images and such. Besides, EQ2 works perfectly fine on dial-up as long as you're not in a raid or something on that level.

And I recommend playing EQ2 with a minimum of 1 GB of RAM... hopefully DDR RAM at that. Or you could turn off some features such as names, voice-over, and grass animations. Try to avoid crowds of NPCs too.