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noquarter	Is This the Dark Age of MMORPGs? Upon These Ruins (Vanguard, AoC, WAR) Will Someone Create a WORLD? The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 2/17/09 5:12:06 AM WoW took the best parts of every MMO that was out at the time and put them together, it was just an amalgam of old mmo and mud ideas put together with a heavy dose of style to set it apart from the start, then they've had a ton of time to build on it. Though I haven't played WotLK it seems like they keep moving away from the old ideas but never could let them go (cuz it would require a complete overhaul?) Personally if immersion means simulated reality then screw it. I'm hoping for something as easily accessible as Atlantica Online (auto-moving to quest objectives? teleporting to party members? hell yes). Ok they don't need to auto-move me to the quest objective but auto-moving to the quest hand-in would sure be nice.
noquarter	opinions for replacement graphics card please? Hardware « General Discussion 2/17/09 4:48:23 AM You should check out this article at Tom's hardware, they keep monthly list of best video card for the money at different price ranges: www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2118.html As for ATI drivers, I recall them having some issues in WoW a few years back around when the 9800 came out but I picked up an ATI HD3870 and haven't had any problems. They used to have an interesting setting in the driver to apply sepia-tone, embossed, chrome and other special effects but those don't exist anymore. The ATI HD line all have hardware acceleration for movie codec decoding which was a big plus, where as NVIDIA only had that on the 8800gt at the time (all GeForce 9 series and higher do hardware h264 decoding). NVIDIA has had their share of problems too ($200 million loss for faulty chips lol?) so I wouldn't say one brand is straight up better supported or more reliable. I would just find your price range on that list and go with a suggested card I doubt you would need more than a $150 card for EQ2 and it's a good performance value but around $200 seems to be the sweet spot for me. Oh I imagine you already did this but you should be sure to make sure the heat sink is air dusted out, a lot of dust on the heat sink can cause it to run hot and give artifiacts and glitches.

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Is This the Dark Age of MMORPGs? Upon These Ruins (Vanguard, AoC, WAR) Will Someone Create a WORLD?
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion

2/17/09 5:12:06 AM

WoW took the best parts of every MMO that was out at the time and put them together, it was just an amalgam of old mmo and mud ideas put together with a heavy dose of style to set it apart from the start, then they've had a ton of time to build on it. Though I haven't played WotLK it seems like they keep moving away from the old ideas but never could let them go (cuz it would require a complete overhaul?)

Personally if immersion means simulated reality then screw it. I'm hoping for something as easily accessible as Atlantica Online (auto-moving to quest objectives? teleporting to party members? hell yes). Ok they don't need to auto-move me to the quest objective but auto-moving to the quest hand-in would sure be nice.

noquarter

opinions for replacement graphics card please?
Hardware « General Discussion

2/17/09 4:48:23 AM

You should check out this article at Tom's hardware, they keep monthly list of best video card for the money at different price ranges: www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2118.html

As for ATI drivers, I recall them having some issues in WoW a few years back around when the 9800 came out but I picked up an ATI HD3870 and haven't had any problems. They used to have an interesting setting in the driver to apply sepia-tone, embossed, chrome and other special effects but those don't exist anymore. The ATI HD line all have hardware acceleration for movie codec decoding which was a big plus, where as NVIDIA only had that on the 8800gt at the time (all GeForce 9 series and higher do hardware h264 decoding).

NVIDIA has had their share of problems too ($200 million loss for faulty chips lol?) so I wouldn't say one brand is straight up better supported or more reliable.

I would just find your price range on that list and go with a suggested card I doubt you would need more than a $150 card for EQ2 and it's a good performance value but around $200 seems to be the sweet spot for me.

Oh I imagine you already did this but you should be sure to make sure the heat sink is air dusted out, a lot of dust on the heat sink can cause it to run hot and give artifiacts and glitches.

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