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Could someone tell me if I will be able to run Everquest 2 if I buy this video card? It is a Diamond Multimedia Radeon 9200SE 128MB AGP, model S80AGP. I have a 2 gig pentium 4 processor with 768 RAM. I preordered EQ2 when it came out to get the character creator and other bonus materials. The character creation program would not run on my computer so I never bought the game. Will this video card help my computer enough to run the game fairly well?

No, It won't even install.

From Sony's website:

Required Specs:
• Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP
• Processor - 1ghz equivalent or greater
• 512 MB RAM
• DirectX 9 compatible video card w/ pixel shader and vertex shader support. With at least 64MB of texture memory
• DirectSound compatible audio hardware
• 56k + Internet connection
• 16X Speed CD-ROM / DVD-ROM
• 6 Gigabytes Hard Drive Space
• DirectX 9.0c

Recommended Specs:
• Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP
• Processor - 2ghz equivalent or greater
• 1 Gigabyte RAM
• DirectX 9 compatible video card w/ pixel shader and vertex shader support. With at least 128MB of texture memory
• DirectSound compatible audio hardware
• Broadband Internet connection
• 16X Speed CD-ROM / DVD-ROM
• 6 Gigabytes Hard Drive Space
• DirectX 9.0c

The minimum machine I have run EQ2 on is a Acer Notebook with a 64MB 9800 graphics card (Mobility Pentium 1.5GHz & 1GB RAM). On this machine it complained on the install, but continued, and a 9800 is several generations newer than 9200. So expect it to complain on install AND STOP.

The 9200 probably won't even run. EQ2 is extremely graphics heavy compared to other games. A 9600 card will do the trick, but you won't be happy...

Trust me you cant run on anything under a 9800 XT 256mb at the least, My pci-e X300 is better then the 9600 and it drops to 5 frames at times just save up for a X800 because that or the 6800 GT and up are the only things that will run this game

Im runnin a pentium 4 3.4 ghz, 1gb of RAM, Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb video card. Let me tell you, considering that I just bought this computer 3 months ago, EQ2 runs pretty crappy on it. I get lots of lag, especially when turning in small spaces, and when fighting. Its sad though when your runnin a new system that cost about $1600, and you have it turned to high performance, and your lagging in Antonica. Im gonna take the money I was gonna use to pay off that computer, and build my own from Newegg. Its gonna be an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor (2.6ghz I think, but runs at 180% what pentium4 does) 256mb ATI Radeon x800 pro Sapphire edition vid card, 2gb of ram, pretty sweet stuff, basically 2 times the computer I have now, same price. A little advice to anyone that is planning on getting a new computer: DONT BUY FROM DELL. Dell takes a computer, and charges twice what its worth. Build your own system and save thousands of dollars.

I built my computer from parts I ordered off of Newegg. I have an AMD Athlon64 3500+ on an NForce3 mobo, 2GB (dual channel) RAM, a 128MB ATI Radeon Pro, 120GB 7200 RPM drive, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2.

I started with High Performance settings and tweaked individual settings, including:
Graphics Resolution to maximum
Rendering Distance to maximum
Lighting Resolution to maximum
Flora enabled
Flora Displacement enabled
Flora Radius to maximum
Flora Density to maximum
and I play the game in third person and in windowed mode (both said to slow down frame rates slightly).

I am typing this right now, with EQ2 on in the background and numerous other windows minimzed. I can stream a high resolution video from the internet (and regularly do while /afk in house selling) and still not notice any hickups in the machine.

I connect to the internet via Cable Modem.

To the person who said that you can't play this game on anything less than a 256MB 9800XT, he is dead wrong. I have yet to experience any serious lag, at all, anywhere and at anytime during the past several months that I have been playing. The most I have experienced was a split second delay during a full group attack against multiple mobs. Even then it was brief (lasting for about 1 second), did not interrupt the flow of combat, and did not reoccur.

The game looks beautiful, but if you try to push the settings higher than your video card and other computer components can handle, then you will experience lag. If this happens to you, just lower some of the settings or change your defaul to a higher performance and tweak the settings that are most important to you up, one at a time.

9600 should be fine if you are on a tight budget. Otherwise consider spending a little bit more for a 9800 PRO or XT.

I run an amd 2200plus, 768 megs of ram and a fx5200 128 meg card, and while i cant run the phat and fancy settings, at medium and a few above i xperiance very few instances of lag. not as nice as i would like, but still plays quite well.