Anyone know where I can find the require/recommended for playing EQ? I remember it was 256 required and 512 recommended for ram. Been lagging lately where it's pretty much unplayable. Have Athlon 800(overclocked to 1133), Nvidia Force 2 MX 400. Have the latest Video Driver and using Win 2k.

http://eqlive.station.sony.com/support/tech_support/ts_system_requirements.jsp


System Requirements

Required Specs:
Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium® II 400 equivalent or greater
256 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 7500/NVidia GeForce 1 equivalent or greater
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
28.8k + Internet Connection
4X Speed CD-ROM
500MB - 2.6GB Available Hard Drive Space (depending on how many expansions are installed)
DirectX 9.0b
EverQuest Classic and a valid EverQuest account

* Note: All Direct 3D cards not supported.

Recommended Specs:
Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium® 4 equivalent or greater
512 MB RAM
NVidia GeForce 3/ATI Radeon 8500 equivalent or greater
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
56.6k + Internet Connection
16X Speed CD-ROM
3.0+ GB Available Hard Drive Space
DirectX 9.0b
EverQuest Classic and a valid EverQuest account

*Note: DirectX 9.0b or greater is required for all Win98/ME/2000/XP

System requirements subject to change as the game progresses.

DirectX 9.0b or Higher Required


My 2nd box is 450 Mhz PII with 256 ram (with SCSI HDD and Nvidia GF4 Ti 4400) and it does indeed run just fine on it but it might be more due to the fact that I killed every gfx heavy stuff in the eqclient.ini.

So my suggestion:

A: get a better video card, MX 400 is kinda underpowered for EQ imho.

B: put these into the eqclient.ini

UseD3DTextureCompression=TRUE
ShowDynamicLights=FALSE
LoadSocialAnimations=FALSE
TextureQuality=3
ShowGrass=FALSE
AccurateLighting=FALSE

C: Other things to check:

- If you have loging on for parsing or whatever then regulary archive the log files, the larger the log file grows the slower it will be to access it. If you have loging on and don't need it then turn it off.

- turn off as many luclin models as you can, I only have my own model turned on for riding.

- check how much virtual memory is allocated in windows, I usually set it to between 1024 and 2048. Dynamic virtual memory setting can make the stuff slow down.

IMO...768megs of memory is the min to play EQ smoothly...at that point just go to 1 gig.

Odd...I'm sure I had more than 160 posts on ARo...

My secondary box is 2.0 Ghz and 1 GB SDram, ands runs pretty smooth, since I do not use Luclin models (worst thing they did to the game), with an Nvidia Titanium 4200 card.

My new primary box is 3.0 Ghz with 2 GB of DDram and an Nvidia 5200 card, and I can run laps in bazaar with everything turned on and have no problem at all.

I think I should be good for one or two expansions now, before I need to upgrade again to be able to play this cursed game.