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5/31/08 4:42:07 AM#21
Originally posted by kitsunegirl Yuck, indeed! Pestering my beautiful XP with yer fugly Vista shots. ;) But seriously, I didnt really get the answer to "will there be a graphical rework"? The graphics IS a bit outdated. Didnt DAoC have a graphic overhaul once too? So it should be possible. Aww well. I am a bit disappointed the skeletal rework apparently seems stuck. So many robes and armours still look exactly the same just differently painted. In the core EQ2 is such a great game but always has been bogged down by the many small issues.
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5/31/08 10:44:31 AM#22
Sorry, But I agree with Enigma, 3 pretty stupid questions. If you're (not mmorpg.com, but people in general) wanting to know the same political answer to those questions ANY of the game developers will give ya for any game that's ever been written, I'll be more than happy to give you the standard stupid question answers ALL devs give. Ask something important, like gameplay, what is the direction for casual to hardcore gameplay? or what are their plans for overcoming dimishing returns? You know, smart, intelligent gameplay decisions of what I have to look for as a player, not coding which doesn't effect but .1% (that's 1 tenth of a percent) of the playerbase and asked by people who haven't played, or never plan on playing. "Granted thinking for yourself could be considered a timesink of shorter or longer duration depending on how smart..or how dumb you are." |
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5/31/08 11:09:36 AM#23
regarding 8800
EQ2 is -not- the only game with these issues, as you will see if read these links kriegshauser.blogspot.com/2008/03/nvidia-8800-frustrations.html It seems EQ2 isn't the only game affected. UT2003 and UT2004 and Team Fortress 2 as well as Test Drive Unlimited have people reporting problems. Even a Mac user reports issues using applications. Curiously, however, some games seem to be largely unaffected but I don't know why.
update 04/04/2008
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5/31/08 11:18:53 AM#24
Originally posted by bahamut1in a dev blog, commentary was given - but nothing promising |
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5/31/08 11:21:24 AM#25
That's it, 3 questions, 2 almost identical ? This is a joke. |
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5/31/08 3:30:24 PM#26
Originally posted by Nadia Diminishing returns on stats, you know, something that actually affects someone actually playing the game. I have no idea what that has to do with it at all. However, it cracks me up to see a real programmer comment on the hordes of armchair programming morons out there that think they can program "The Greatest MMORPG In The World"(echo: world world...) with a rubber band and ink pen. What are they, McGuyver? I love this comment: Any programmer that thinks you can flip a switch or "plug and play" some code from another application and you magically have a high performing multi-threaded application seriously needs to find another line of work. LOL, great stuff. "Granted thinking for yourself could be considered a timesink of shorter or longer duration depending on how smart..or how dumb you are." |
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5/31/08 5:18:14 PM#27
I don't think the problem lies with Nvidia drivers, the only game that gives me problems is EQII, I have had no issues with any other games. SOE marching orders are maintenance mode only, except for expansions and all the expansions do is add more and higher content. They have basically gave up on the new player. |
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6/01/08 9:29:11 AM#28
EQ2..../blah. I would have asked them these two questions instead: 1) When will EQ1 get a classic server? 2) Is EQ3 in the works? |
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6/01/08 9:48:48 AM#29
It wasn't a matter of picking certain questions/letters because all letters were sent in so all letters received an answer. This was only a few of the letters sent in out of a handful of people who wrote in. The rest will be posted with their answers. We didn't just pick certain letters to have them be answered. We gave all players the opportunity to write a letter to the devs and have their letter answered. The devs were given the list of letters, and they could have chose to not answer repeated questions or any of them for that matter, but they were nice in answering all of them, even if the question had been asked before. They could have skipped repeated, but they were great in replying to everyone. I think it was great of them to give each player that wrote to them a reply. And I have played EQ2 since release btw:) I didn't exclude any letters because this wasn't an interview where we chose certain questions. This was an opportunity for players to write to the devs and have their letters responded to, all of them, not only certain ones we picked out. Keep checking back to see more PLAYER letters and the developer responses to those letters:) Also keep an eye out for furture opportunities to write your own letters=) ~Adele Caelia |
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kedoremos
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Joined: 12/12/05
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6/01/08 12:36:36 PM#30
Originally posted by Enigma
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6/01/08 5:25:50 PM#31
Originally posted by kedoremos its fine. :)
When I was a moderator here, we were forced to have our first and last name in our personal information section. Trust me, if someone wanted to screw me over it would have been when I was a Moderator here ;) But, Ill probably remove it soon. Thank you! |
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6/02/08 8:46:39 AM#32
At least they fixed up the launcher...I couldn't even get the old one to launch EQ2. And upgrades took forever.
And then there's the "broken" classes.... Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines |
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6/02/08 9:29:58 AM#33
It's interesting that EQ2 has issues with the 8800. I always thought EQ2 used an upgraded version of the SWG engine, yet SWG has no issues with the 8800 cards...
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6/02/08 10:43:58 AM#34
highly doubt EQ2 used a upgraded version of the SWG engine. I think you mean the otherway around. Atleast with the NGE and it's EQ2 spell like effects. But seriously, well above was serious, the size of SWG planets and how engine would work that wouldn't fit with EQ2.
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6/02/08 2:00:02 PM#35
I'm surprised that EQ2 isn't trying to keep up with the computer technology changes. There's more and more Dual Core machines in use now, and not to mention Quad Core machines. I wonder if I'll even be able to play the game with my Quad Core AMD and Crossfire graphics cards.
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6/02/08 4:02:03 PM#36
Originally posted by mecher SWG has always had particle effects, they just increased the usage of them over the years, heh. Devs in the past have mentioned that engine improvements have been shared between both SWG and EQ2 which kinda implies that the two engines are compatible. It kinda makes sense since the two games were developed around the same time (although EQ2 came out a year later) - it doesn't make much sense that they'd create a whole new engine from scratch when they had already just done that with SWG. But then again though, we can sit down in chairs in SWG, and have our characters dance :D
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6/04/08 9:11:17 PM#37
I'm sure I can't be the only person that feels none of those "answers" were worth squat? It's like getting punched in the nose. No one likes it. I love SOE. I hate when they say they'll "answer fans" by beating around bushes |
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6/05/08 1:45:52 PM#38
That's really too bad I have been looking forward to finally rying EQ2 after not really being able to have the time to game (having a baby and making a career change will do that). Hell, these days a quad core is becoming quite popular along with the 8000 series. I myself have just middle of the line PC with both of these and REALLY enjoying the graphics in AoC Unless I am mistaken, Sony has to be making some pretty decent coin with EQ2, and if they aren't willing to invest in at least re-working some of the key parts of the engine, then they are really shooting themselves in the foot. Unless they keep up with technology, they can expect their player base to drop much quicker because of this. they can go ahead and give out as many free trials and free return times as they like. If they don't impress the customer, they are going to go play something else. Wow, those folks have made some pretty ignorant decisions.
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6/07/08 8:10:50 PM#39
Originally posted by Adele
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6/10/08 4:41:54 AM#40
I dont get all the issues people have with the graphics and performance. I just upgraded to a Duel Core, 3.6 (overclocked), 4 mb ram and an 8800GTX, and can now run the game at Max settings and get 50 frames a second with no stuttering or issues at all. And it looks completely stunning, better than AoC in places, which shows incredibly foresite for a game thats 4-5 years old. So, anyone with issues, just upgrade, or sort your drivers out. Its completely doable these days. "When people don't know much about something, they tend to fill in the blanks the way they want them to be filled in. They are almost always disappointed." - Will Wright |
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We're working towards improving client performance on new systems but don't have any concrete information or dates to release at the moment.
Currently, the following hardware upgrades may improve EQ2 performance.
Increase RAM (up to 4gb)
Increase hard disk access times
Increase CPU speed
CPU's with multiple cores and SLI setups don't currently offer significant performance benefits for EQ2.