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This is the computer I am going to buy in December to play EQ2. How will this run?
Windows XP home
AGPB Warrior ATX case with 450w 24 PN PS
CDRW+DVD LiteON 52x32x52+16x
Microsoft optical keyboard/mouse combo
Creative Labs Inspire 2.1 speakers
ProView 19" .20 pitch moniter
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum socket 939 with Nforce
AMD 64 3200+ Socket 939
Gigabyte 6800 GT 256MB DDR3
DD400 512x2 Performance OCZ 3200
Western Digital 160G 7200 RPM 8m SATA hardrive
Total: 1552.00 with tax
1 Year warranty
EQ2 Qeynos Guild- http://www.imperium-arcanum.com
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That will run the game great. Are you buying that or building yourself?
Im buying the parts custom from PC Club and they will build it there.
EQ2 Qeynos Guild- http://www.imperium-arcanum.com
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Awesome. That system won't have a problem. If I had the money I'd definitley pay someone else to build it to. But as of now I'm in the building/buying process. Rewarding once I finish it I suppose.
EQ2's technical support board has been filled with complaints about running on the Nvidia 6800 GT.. no idea if they fixed those. Apparently there is a stutter issue on that particular card.
Found it:
http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tech_support&message.id=10070
10 pages of people complaining their 6800 GT stutters on EQ2.
Ya its weird, I have heard alot of people loving the card with no issues, then some people having alot of problems
EQ2 Qeynos Guild- http://www.imperium-arcanum.com
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"Arguing on the Internet is like running the Special Olympics. Even if you win you're still a retard"
"I have no prejudices, I hate everyone equally regardless of race or religion"
_______________________________________________________________________________
"Flamers, beware! when you leave this earth, there is a very special place reserved for you down below with romantic bonefires scourching you bones!"
"I have no prejudices, I hate everyone equally regardless of race or religion"
"Been there, done that!"
Get the ATI X800 instead or the ATI Radeon 9800 pro. =p
RAM is soooooo important. My sytem is mediocre but I haev 1.5 gig PC3200 DDR ram, I run so much crap in the background and still teh game runs flawlessly. (I play in window mode)
granted, my graphics aren't cranked up to the max, but they are high enough and i am impressed with the details
I have a ATI radeon 9600 Pro
I have a 6800 Ultra with an almost identical machine. My performance is ok I would expect better but I`m not really complaining either.
You can easily go to at least 1.5G of RAM and get good performance increases. I had 1Gig and went to 1.5 and it helped A LOT.
It appears they have not yet isolated what is causing stutter with the 6800 series cards. Some people claim a BIOS flash works, turning fastwrites off works for others, driver rollbacks, chipset driver updates, and other things like buying a decent power supply have worked for some people too. For many people, none of those things have worked. Many people are not capable of trying more than one or two of those things, but no one should have to deal with them.
It's bleeding edge hardware on a bleeding edge graphics engine. Par for the course imho. The drivers for the FX series were junk when they came out too. After several months they managed to straighten that out, and all of a sudden the FX models became competitive with ATI's 9xxx series. Expect the same to happen here except the 6xxx series already beats the new ATI cards, and also expect to roll the dice when you order a 6800 before the problem has been solved. Yes it is a problem, yes it will be solved, yes it does suck.
I'm a 9800 Pro owner, so don't start calling me a fanboy. There are X800 stutter issues in some games too. If you were an owner of one of those games and had bought the X800 for it, you would be just as angry as many EQ2 people are. But EQ2 is a community-based game, so you're encouraged to post in a public place where everyone reads it, instead of having to root around to find the tech support forum for some FPS or RTS.
HL2 is supposedly "made for" ATI (it's all BS marketing, FYI folks). There are many X800XT owners getting stutter in HL2, how do you suppose they feel about their new purchases?
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33792006&page=3
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If you dont get a 6800gt.. get 2 6600's and connect them.. OR 2 6800 gt's and connect them.. :O but 2 6600 is like 300 bucks.. and uber tastic more than likely.. :O
2 6600's is 290 dollars cheapest place
1 6800 gt is 370 dollars cheapest place/a 6800 ultra is 490 cheapest place
2 6600 gt's is like 360 bucks, but they only come in 128 megs...