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EQ2 any good?
Fraltieny
Member Posts: 26
I was wondering if I should get EQ2, it looks like a sweet game, and I love PVE. Some questions though.
My computer isn't great, Will i experience lots of lag? My system is Microsoft Windows XP version 2002. 1.66 GHZ and 768 MB of Ram. and my graphics card has 128 Ram. WIll i experience lots of lag?
So in EQ2 I can have a house? Can you explain this?
How many sunscribers are there?
Thanks in advance!
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you will lag alot with that processor. btw, video ram is only 25% of it, what is the actual card? I lagged alot with 1.5 gigs of ram, 2.5 processor, and a 9800pro. You can have a house in eq2, it is instanced, but there are a TON of items to put inside of it, its a good system. I quit because of a low pop in the game, but if you join the highest pop server currently, I bet the player base would be fine.
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It lags pretty bad too - even on a top spec machine it lags at the *lower* settings.
The PVE servers are a write off - so few people I like to refer to it as Ghost Quest. But on a serious note I had to give up levelling as there were too few people to form a party after hours of trying and this was after being repeatedly told that the expansion packs hold the high end content, so Im a bit annoyed.
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Are you playing the same game I am? I can understand not liking the game, but I get no lag as long as I reboot my PC every night, and I play on a constantly packed PVE server (Blackburrow). In fact, it's actually been hard to find uncamped XP spots on my characters there's so many people playing.
I agree on the housing though.
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I played EQ2 on a:
1.4ghrz P
512mb ram
64mb ati xpress 200
and i could run it on high performance without any lag.
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And I call BS on that one. With only 512Mb you'd barely be able to start EQ2, let alone play it or zone a few times.
It's a 1Gb *minimum* game, if you don't want thrashing every 3rd or 4th time you zone somewhere, especially lagfests like Qeynos Harbor, etc...
And I call BS on that one. With only 512Mb you'd barely be able to start EQ2, let alone play it or zone a few times.
It's a 1Gb *minimum* game, if you don't want thrashing every 3rd or 4th time you zone somewhere, especially lagfests like Qeynos Harbor, etc...
Sorry you're wrong. When I first played EQ2 I had a P4 1.8ghz system w/512mb RAM and a GeForce 5700 w/256 RAM.
I was able to run EQ2 just fine with little to no lag on settings somewhere in between balanced and high performance.
Currently I have a P4 3.2ghz system w/2gb RAM and a GeForce 6800 Pro.... I can run it on nearly max settings w/o issue.
My guess, as long as the OP is running a clean system w/o viruses or add/spyware all over it is that he should be able to run the game either on balanced or just below balanced settings. It'll still look ok but it won't look as good as it can. Then again, even on lower settings EQ2 blows most of the competition away, graphically... other than the character models... which I have always hated.
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Dunno how you can call BS, i was just telling the guy that it can be played on a low end system.
I'm using that system atm because i broken my pc and waiting for the parts to come.
MY xfire says i played it
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And I call BS on that one. With only 512Mb you'd barely be able to start EQ2, let alone play it or zone a few times.
It's a 1Gb *minimum* game, if you don't want thrashing every 3rd or 4th time you zone somewhere, especially lagfests like Qeynos Harbor, etc...
Sorry you're wrong. When I first played EQ2 I had a P4 1.8ghz system w/512mb RAM and a GeForce 5700 w/256 RAM.
I was able to run EQ2 just fine with little to no lag on settings somewhere in between balanced and high performance.
Currently I have a P4 3.2ghz system w/2gb RAM and a GeForce 6800 Pro.... I can run it on nearly max settings w/o issue.
My guess, as long as the OP is running a clean system w/o viruses or add/spyware all over it is that he should be able to run the game either on balanced or just below balanced settings. It'll still look ok but it won't look as good as it can. Then again, even on lower settings EQ2 blows most of the competition away, graphically... other than the character models... which I have always hated.
Sorry you're wrong. When I first played EQ2 I had a P4 1.8ghz system w/512mb RAM and a GeForce 5700 w/256 RAM.
I was able to run EQ2 just fine with little to no lag on settings somewhere in between balanced and high performance.
Currently I have a P4 3.2ghz system w/2gb RAM and a GeForce 6800 Pro.... I can run it on nearly max settings w/o issue.
My guess, as long as the OP is running a clean system w/o viruses or add/spyware all over it is that he should be able to run the game either on balanced or just below balanced settings. It'll still look ok but it won't look as good as it can. Then again, even on lower settings EQ2 blows most of the competition away, graphically... other than the character models... which I have always hated.
The guy hasn't really played EQ2, if he had he wouldn't be saying it was BS or he doesn't know how to properly adjust the settings in EQ2. I ran EQ2 on a 1.8 athlon xp, 768 SD ram and a 128 ATI vid at Extreme Graphics. What peeps didn't realize or never bothered to read the boards was that the Extreme setting wasn't "maxing out", quite the opposite, it bottomed out your settings. The Extreme setting turns off shadows, dynamic lighting and trilinear filtering, the three singlemost brutal , taxing, comp crunching aspects to any game. The graphics quality was still left on high along with many other settings including spell effects and the game still looked fantastic with lag only coming from the server or my own provider intteruptions. So before anyone else starts spitting BS make sure you know what the hell your talking about, you just make yourself look like a fool.
EQ2 is still a great mmo even after the the changes to combat, crafting etc... the only bad reports on the boards come from the "forget I have a life and just play 24/7" players that keep running out of content. If your a casual gamer or even lean to the hardcore but not quite that type of player, you have a guarrenteed 2 years gameplay with the current game and expansions. And EQ2 has exapnsions coming out on an average of 6-8 months so unless your hardcore you'll never run out of content.
Currently I have a P4 3.2ghz system w/2gb RAM and a GeForce 6800 Pro.... I can run it on nearly max settings w/o issue.
My guess, as long as the OP is running a clean system w/o viruses or add/spyware all over it is that he should be able to run the game either on balanced or just below balanced settings. It'll still look ok but it won't look as good as it can. Then again, even on lower settings EQ2 blows most of the competition away, graphically... other than the character models... which I have always hated.
I can confirm this. I am playing it with about the same specs with little trouble on a platform very similar.
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You will not be able to play on the higher graphics settings but it will run just fine. More memory would be helpful though.
You can have a house, it is instanced with other people sharing the same door but you have many choices to choose from each with a different appearance and layout and there are a huge number of items you can use to decorate it.
Despite the FUD some people try and spread server populations are solid and most servers hit high loads every single night. Since they are dependant on healers and tanks to log on DPS classes can end up waiting a while for groups, but healers can find a group almost immediately in my experience.
I would definitely recommend giving it a try, the dev team has done a great job at staying focused on what type of game they want and have made great progress getting there. It’s quietly become one of the best PvE games available.
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Maybe if you played longer you would actually get that feeling you know... when u play an sht.. but yeah.. EQ2 is really good especially there new PvP servers, much better then WoW PvP for sure.
Yes, EQ2 is the best game currently on the market.
I played EQ2 with a 1.6 GHz Celeron, 1 GB Ram and 128 MB FX 5200 Graphics card with extreme performance mode. Yes, so you can run EQ2 just fine in your computer. However, you will experience lag in city zones but when you go into overland or dungeon zones you shouldn't experience lag.
You can have houses in EQ2.
Currently there are about 200,000 active subscribers in EQ2 and it is growing.