More memory or a new graphics card?Follow

While both certainly need upgrading, you will see the bigger performance increase from the memory upgrade. 1GB is an absolute must. If you can afford it I highly recommend that you should shoot for 2GB. It'll be like playing a new game. As for the video card, see about nailing down something with 256MB on-board at least. You don't need an absolute top of the line card. The memory upgrade plus a middle-of-the-road card will be enough to get you hoppin'.

Well, it's probably a combination of things, Gladiatorr. I mean, I just hope you aren't trying to play EQ2 at MAX settings like you did those other games. EQ2's graphics architecture was designed to be forward-looking with regard to technology. It can only be run on maximum detail and graphic levels on the best of the best hardware. I'm talking massively beasty systems. I have 2GB and a beefy vid card with 512 on-board for the GPU and I still wouldn't try to play EQ2 at max settings.

Upgrading to 2GB of RAM will give you a very noticeable performance boost. As for stuff running in the background, find yourself a good registry cleaner like HiJackThis and axe out some processes that look shady to you. Also, search around for some XP tweaks for performance. There are tons of little switches you can toggle for better gaming. And this may sound silly, but defrag. A lot of folks forget to do that every once and awhile and if it's been a few months you cold have some fragmentation going on. This slows the rate at which software access data on your hdd. When the client is trying to pull up object and texture info from the cab files on the drive, a fragmented drive can cause a big performance hit.

It's long been reported that (provided your video card will run EQ2 at all) if you can only upgrade one thing, go for memory.

Yes memory is far more important to combat lag and zoning speed than a graphics card is. As said already, 1 gig for sure - 2 gig if you can afford it.