Will I need to rob a bank to play the game

shoanmitch

Ok here is the deal I have a P2.4Ghz 768MB ram and a GeForce 4 Ti 4200.  Is it worth me trying to run this game or will it give me a beat down and send me to the blood bank to sell blood so that I can buy a better computer to play this beast. Also I am a sucker for new games and always seem to run out and get the latest games my down fall in life. ha ha oh well I guess I am just a sucker

rathma

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Originally posted by shoanmitch
Ok here is the deal I have a P2.4Ghz 768MB ram and a GeForce 4 Ti 4200.  Is it worth me trying to run this game or will it give me a beat down and send me to the blood bank to sell blood so that I can buy a better computer to play this beast. Also I am a sucker for new games and always seem to run out and get the latest games my down fall in life. ha ha oh well I guess I am just a sucker

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Hmm... Well your processor and ram might be ok. Not sure about your GFX card. i'd wait at least a week to see what people say about EQ2 and if it really is a great game (which it should be) i would suggesting maybe just upgrading your comp. slightly.

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shoanmitch

Well I am sure I will upgrade my card by then I like to stay right behind the cutting edge due to costs so with all the new cards coming out I am ready for the big proce drops on the current market also I do not trust the specs that they give on the offical website vs what they are showing as screenshots

Admin

You could upgrade to a low cost ATI 9700 series for the cost a few blood bank runs   This would at least give you full DX9 compatibility without breaking the bank.

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shoanmitch

yes true but I think I will wait until the game gets here to worry about it too much so I can get the most for my money who knows I might have a rich relative croke or something. Thanks for the advice and all but I think poor old aunt edna has to go

WillJones420

That's one of the things that scares me about EQ2: how much of a hardware whore it's going to be.  I'm operating on a 1.9 Ghz Athalon which I've heard is okay (or at least will be for a while) but what about my ATI 8500LE and 512 megs of RAM?

Admin

Well, you can turn down a lot of settings in the game.  I have seen the config panel for EQII and you can really adjust a lot of features in the game.

One of the cool things is that this game will get better as hardware advances.  No system out at the time EQ2 is launched will be able to run the game with all settings maxed out.  So it gives you something to look forward to

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NilParagon

I agree... I plan on getting a new PC in a little over a year.   That will allow me to get more bang for the buck and run EQ2 on much better platform then if I ran out and bought it now.

Zakor

Before thinking of buying a new computer or upgrading it :

WAIT for the new motherboard with PCI express slot to come out.. or it is a waste of money. It is sheduled to come out somewhere in late 2004 to 2005 i think (not sure). I heard that it will improve quite alot the graphical performances.

You will need a new graphic card that can support PCI express.. those cards are supposed to come out very VERY soon.

My config :

Motherboard: P4C800 Deluxe <-- Can go up to 800 FSB

Processor: P 4 2.4 Gig (533 FSB) <-- cuz i didn't bought the 800 FSB to save $ /slap forehead ! doh!

Memory: 1 Gig of DDR 400 Corsair running on Dual Channel (running at 533 same as my Processor)

Graphic card: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128M on AGP 8X

Hard drives: Raid

Like you can see.. i almost have the same config. And i am thinking of buying a new computer. I won't do it till PCI express is out. I do belive that EQ will run great on this config if all the options are not maxed. I doubt any computer will be able to run EQ2 maxed, or at least without lag.

Hope it helps.

 

NilParagon

Mainly want an Operating system that officially supports 64 bit processors as well as plays EQ2.

Zakor

Oh yeah! That too! Important to get those new motherboard build on a 64 bit.!

|MaguS|

A GF4 will play EQ2 fine, Moongard stated that he plays on one at Home. Remember SOE made the engine VERY flexiable. Its made to detect your settings and lock the max possible settings on your PC to its ideas, so while you could lower the settings you couldn't go higher then what the game thinks your PC can handle.

AKA your max settings will be different then the max settings of a high end system.

Smelly_Armor

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Originally posted by Zakor
Before thinking of buying a new computer or upgrading it :
WAIT for the new motherboard with PCI express slot to come out.. or it is a waste of money. It is sheduled to come out somewhere in late 2004 to 2005 i think (not sure). I heard that it will improve quite alot the graphical performances.
You will need a new graphic card that can support PCI express.. those cards are supposed to come out very VERY soon.
My config :
Motherboard: P4C800 Deluxe <-- Can go up to 800 FSB
Processor: P 4 2.4 Gig (533 FSB) <-- cuz i didn't bought the 800 FSB to save $ /slap forehead ! doh!
Memory: 1 Gig of DDR 400 Corsair running on Dual Channel (running at 533 same as my Processor)
Graphic card: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128M on AGP 8X
Hard drives: Raid
Like you can see.. i almost have the same config. And i am thinking of buying a new computer. I won't do it till PCI express is out. I do belive that EQ will run great on this config if all the options are not maxed. I doubt any computer will be able to run EQ2 maxed, or at least without lag.
Hope it helps.
 

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I agree with Zakor about the boards with the PCI-E slots, but you really don't have to wait forever to buy one. SiS will be putting out some motherboards as early as June this year. Next month. Here's the article:

http://www.cooltechzone.com/reviews/motherboards/mobonewsstory_004.php

I just got finished rebuilding my sytems but only had about $350.00US to spend. I'll upgrade it further when I get the money. Probably wait till xmas or after to buy a board with PCI-E slots though.

Edited this to correct some of my spelling. Made several posts last night in the wee hours of the morning after sever pints of Guiness.

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raptorfalcon

I only have a athlon 1.6 ghz and a GF4  guess Ill have to spend a lot to play the game. Only doing it if it is worth it thoug (high hopes and crossed fingers)

Smelly_Armor

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Originally posted by raptorfalcon
I only have a athlon 1.6 ghz and a GF4  guess Ill have to spend a lot to play the game. Only doing it if it is worth it thoug (high hopes and crossed fingers)

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I'm in the same boat with you raptorfalcon. I did have an older Intel Celeron 1.2ghz processor with just 256mb RAM and an older ATI Radeon 7200 card. Was a good system in its day. Even ran ok with most games if I turned down graphics settings and tweaked the machine, but that was until motherboard crapped out.

Since I had so little money to spend....I put in a PC Chips M825VXX motherboard (266mhz bus), AMD Duron 1.6ghz, Samsung 512mb DDR SDRAM, and ATI Radeon 9200 card. Not a system that will turn heads, but plenty adequate until I can spend more money. Not sure which cards will be compatible with EQ2, but we both should be able to play EQ2. Just have to turn the settings down and won't get to see all the eye-candy.

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Drakol

   Yes the pci express gfx cards will be awesome, but dont expect them to be cheap when they first come out.

Crestguard

I knew I would have to upgrade.  I was using a laptop for school the past two years and I really wanted to get a powerful desktop for some games, because nothing would run on my laptop.  So I went to a local computer show and it worked out great!  I was planning on buying an old refurbished PC and just upgrading the ram to 1GB and getting some sort of 256 video card, but instead for $799 I got a p4 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, 256 video card, 80gb hard drive.  Everything I could have asked for at a price I never thought I'd get to pay.  I got call of duty to give it a test spin and I can't find any spots of slowdown or hiccuping.  Just hope I can get into beta to give it a real run for it's money, heh.

Mikew14

I'm sure you will be able to run the game fine, maybe not in full graphics settings. But it will still run fine and look 1000 times better than EQ. Remember, the game devs cant afford to make the minimum requirements too high otherwise they lose ALOT of customers.

If you are someone that needs the highest graphics, smoothest gameplay and the best of everything you may need to upgrade. If you want to jsut play the game, maybe not in full settings, you will be just fine.

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Djin

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Originally posted by shoanmitch
Ok here is the deal I have a P2.4Ghz 768MB ram and a GeForce 4 Ti 4200.  Is it worth me trying to run this game or will it give me a beat down and send me to the blood bank to sell blood so that I can buy a better computer to play this beast. Also I am a sucker for new games and always seem to run out and get the latest games my down fall in life. ha ha oh well I guess I am just a sucker

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Did you read the system requirments on the EQ2 site?

System Requirements

What are the game's requirements?

-Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
-Processor: 1GHz or greater
-RAM: 512 MB
-Video Card: DirectX 9 compatible. Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 64 MB of texture memory
-Sound Card: DirectSound compatible audio hardware

They want a 2.0Ghz+ CPU and at least 1GB of RAM to run the game really nice.