All Posts by narial

i had similiar problems to the OP when i joined eq2 in feb. brand new machine ith 8800 gtx 768's in sli

i went from vista, to xp, back to vista. the OS made no difference on this client

the reasons are as follows:

1) eq2 does not support multiple cores. the client will actually run better on a single core P4 than on any multiple core machines

2) the client passes shadow rending to the cpu, and not your video cards gpu - further degrading performance. there are other processes i'm sure that are also dealt with in this manner

basically when in installed eq2 on my 2004 p4 HP laptop i got superb performance - with a 128mb geforce go video card over my dual core extreme, RAID, dual 8800 gtx SLI system

and if you have an SLI system, disable SLI. you'll automatically see an increase in fps - in xp and in vista

edit: i maintain 60 fps in crysis at maximum settings, and my machine got 21k 3dmarks

Originally posted by dabor

I'm worried that, altough this game wont have the ultra-dull early leveling that annoyes me, im still not sure about how groups will be required. It makes sense that on your way to third tier you will probably be doing a lot of soloing, but how will people group in the later levels? I personally choose to try to play with groups, but it never seems worth it, fun as it may be. I'n not a beta member btw.

Will people be playing in groups as an almost-requirment to survive, or will they be a rare sight? How is this a thread, you ask?

I Want people to say logical ideas on how to make the game either funner for soloers or more requiring groups. Thanks

city of heroes/villains is the same way, and it's done ok. hell,it's done better than EQ2 in terms of subscriptions.

people will be in groups by choice to enjoy the game and (eventually) the instances will scale depending on group size. this is a breath of fresh air from the forced grouping, which only a small single-digit % of any mmorpg' population are able to generally do reliably to advance their character. eveyrone seems to be forgetting in so short a time the horros of PuG's just in WoW after BC

Originally posted by blackbellamy

 

Originally posted by Mrbloodworth

They are all ready revamping it.

 

That's great news!  Can you point me to the info or a thread with some developer input about this matter?

they talked about it 4 months ago. it wont always be locked, it just is for now on the beta client. the retail client will be a bit different