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#1 Jan 04 2005 at 9:15 PM Rating: Decent
EXPERTS HELP! This is my system:

AMD AthlonXP 2200+ (1.8ghz)
ONE (1) Gig of PC133 RAM
Radeon 9200 AGP4X 128mb DDR
Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 512 (EAX)
30gb Hard Drive
Broadband Internet Connection

WindowsXP Corporate Edition - Hardly any background programs, just anti-virus. I have a hardware firewall so there are no software firewalls or adware bots, etc running.
DirectX 9c and SP2 are installed.

Will it run EQ2? How bad will it be?
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#2 Jan 04 2005 at 10:47 PM Rating: Decent
You have almost the recomended requirements for the game, even thou its better to have some stuff a bit more, but it should work fine, maybe not with max details on the video options, but you will be able to see the game pretty nice..

Good Luck
#3 Jan 05 2005 at 7:02 AM Rating: Decent
Good News! It runs fantastic. Thank you!
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#4 Jan 05 2005 at 8:00 AM Rating: Decent
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I'd be impressed if anyone can run this game smoothly (if at all) at maximum settings... as it was designed for a 512 MB video card. And, unless I am out of date, there aren't too many ( read: none ) of those puppies running about yet. :)

My system runs this game like glass on the prepackaged High setting... and yet Doom 3 crashes me. Oh the agony...

Edited, Wed Jan 5 08:06:46 2005 by Dezi
#5 Jan 05 2005 at 8:56 AM Rating: Decent
PCI Express, the future of computer gaming. Dual Nvidia Ultra 6800's should be able to handle the game at it's highest settings with no problems.

(Ridiculously expensive though. I'm planing on getting a system with dual 6600GT cards when I move back to the states this year. My current laptop won't play EQ2)

Edited, Wed Jan 5 08:57:33 2005 by StarSkream
#6 Jan 05 2005 at 9:22 AM Rating: Decent
A finnish magazine reviewed EQ II(got 90/100 ;) ) and said that recommended system in the box is definetly the minimun system.
So its up to you, to test or not to test ;P
#7 Jan 05 2005 at 5:28 PM Rating: Decent
EQ2 was definately designed for computers that are not (commonly) built yet. It really is a good thing. In EQ1 they had to revamp the entire graphics engine TWICE just to keep it current. I think it is good that computers will grow into this game, instead of the other way around. I played EQ1 since beta. I have played EQ2 now for a grand total of about four hours. So far I am very impressed. Although, I can feel my wallet cringing as I browse ebay for a better video card.
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#8 Jan 12 2005 at 3:58 PM Rating: Decent
i am afraid i must agree i have a p4 3.4 gig processor 80 gig 7200 rpm hard drive sound blaster live eax sound card and an nvidia geforce 6800 256 meg vid card and 1 gig ddr 400 mhz ram and a pipeline connection @100meg and still it is choppy and laggy feeling if i go past the default video settings which is medium with most of the pretty bells and whistles turned off i tried at max and could barely move at all even though it looked like a different game at max it was beautiful textures all look so real but at default if you look in options most shadows lights particles effects are by default off and graphics are set to medium at least when it set mine up it was now i have turned on the extras and went with high quality settings noy very high or maximum which lets me actually see the game the way it was meant to be seen even if it makes gameplay feel like a 28k to 56k phone connect instead of 100meg pipeline it is c a little choppy but since it was usually that way with my old computer and phone connect on eq1 i can get used to the choppiness easier than i can shelling out a grand on new computer equipment and still not having at least some of the visual bang that drew me to eq2 over eq1
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