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Will this run Eq2?
Kunarick
Member UncommonPosts: 348
in Everquest II
A geforce FX 5200 PCI (256 mb)
I really don't care what i have to turn down, but will i beable to run Eq2 with an acceptable amount of lag?
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Yeah it should but the setting will have to be low. What is your memory?
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Settings won't be that low, you should be fine.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
I have 768 mb of RAM
So would i be better off returning this and getting an AGP model instead? I heard that PCI is bad......
or would sticking with this be fine.....i'm not looking for really hardcore preformence, if i really wanted that i would get a much better card, but this will be fine until i get a new computer.
So would the lag be acceptable and would this card work acceptably?
Kunou, you're kind of the expert on Eq2, could you please answer this for me?
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Fear is the little death that leads to obliteration, I must permit fear to pass over me and through me.
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Yeah, sorrry, I misread at first, thought you were referring to PCI-E, not standard PCI. Yeah I'd definitely exchange that for an AGP version if you can.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
EQ2 Qeynos Guild- http://www.imperium-arcanum.com
No, prolly not, but it's been so long since I've heard anyone talking about a standard PCI graphics card, and on top of all the talk of PCI-E stuff lately my mind just naturally went with the PCI-E route over standard PCI. Hell I didn't even know they still made standard PCI graphics cards.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
EQ2 Qeynos Guild- http://www.imperium-arcanum.com
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The True Oracle of all that is EverQuest!!
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"You sir, are a moron"
I currently have the Nvidia Geforce fx 5200 256 in my computer along side 1536 megs of DDR ram..... I can run Doom 3 on ultra settings with no problems.....although I cannot run it smoothly with high anti-analizing on.
Oh, mine is AGP....PCI sucks monkey nuts
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What motherboard is it? Most Motherboards will tell you what processor speeds they can handle. Your best bet is to check the website of the manufacturer since it's probably more updated than the mobo manual you have. Alot of companies will release new BIOS versions to handle newer processors of the same architecture (i.e. 478)
Out of what you said, if you were looking to do just a $500 upgrade, I'd say drop that $500 on a GeForce 6800 256MB card. Then later you can always bump up the processor/memory etc. I think that would get you the most performance increase out of those components.