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How Does Eq2 Run On Your System

daniel240279daniel240279 Member Posts: 28
in Everquest II

Just thought i'd pop in a poll to see how eq2 runs on peoples systems.  Feel free to put your specs in.

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  • majochmajoch Member Posts: 599

    It runs the gamut of acceptable to excellent.  Acceptable on a 2.8ghz, 2 gig ram, 256mb Nvidia to excellent on my 3.4 duel core, 2 gig, ram, 256 nvidia.  Even runs okay on my 1.6ghz, 768 mb ram, 128 nvidia.  Never messed with any internal setting on any of these machines cpu's or cards.  Had to tweak in game graphics a lot for the 1.6 machine but was still able to get decent framerates except in West FP and NQ. 

    As the machines get better I was able to open up more of the graphics settings with the dual core system able to handle most of the shadows on settings with no bog down.  2 of the machines are pentium and 1 is AMD never noticed much difference in performance between the 2 types except the AMD machine 2.8 ghz takes longer to unload the game after exiting out.

  • OpenGLOpenGL Member Posts: 8
    If you start to lag all you have to do is reload everquest2 there seems to be a lot of cache or a horrible memory leak that tends to lag the game when playing for a long time.

  • majochmajoch Member Posts: 599

    Having to zone a few times in rapid succesision will utterly bog down the older machine to the point of logging and restarting the puter. 

  • DyrttDyrtt Member Posts: 422

    I experience pretty good to very good performance in all but the most extreme cases.  Here are my specs.


    ASUS A8N-SLI premium
    Athlon 64 4000
    XFX gforce 7800 gt (single for now)
    2 gigs Ram

    I can crank up the settings pretty high but nowhere close to all the way (yet )



    I did ok with the following:

    Unknown MOBO
    P3 2 gig
    Radeon 9600
    758 megs ram

    My settings were pretty low but the game still looked ok and the gameplay was smooth.


    My couple 'o pennies...

    edit:  What the previous posters said about memory leak is completely true.  I don't know what the deal is but if I'm on and moving around alot for long periods of time I get crazy lag.  To the point where I start to zone and I can get up, get a drink, use the restroom, take a nap, service the wife, etc and come back and still have to wait several minutes.  Re-booting fixes this but shouldn't be nesessary.



  • CopelandCopeland Member Posts: 1,955

    EQ2 runs better than excellent for me. I play on Extreme quality settings with everything tweaked to the maximum everywhere but the cities and i get no lag. The graphics are amazing on those setting as well.

    AMDx2 4200 dual geforce n6600's ... well worth the money :)

  • Takata5Takata5 Member Posts: 336
    My system isn't as good as others here but it runs pretty decent even around peak hourse. I use,

    AMD64 3000+
    1 gig of Ram
    6600 Geforce

    I haven't been able to test it yet if it runs well when there's lots of people around yet. When I played WoW it ran perfectly in 40 man raids but of course thats a different game with different system requierments.


  • barfmanbarfman Member Posts: 33
    I regularly run 2 EQ2 accounts at medium settings with minimal difference noticed if running just one account (zoning, grouping, animation lag, etc).  3gb ram, 3.4P4, GF6800GT.  I don't have an uber elite SLI system, but can achieve much with some decent hardware.  Upgrading ram from 1gb to 3b improved performance noticably.  

    Barfman - The superhero people are reluctant to call upon.

  • anicausanicaus Member Posts: 3

    AMD 64 3700, 2gig 3200 ram, ati x1800xt 512mb @650mhz, 2x250gb

    I run it at high quality. Get about 25-30fps. Its okay I guess..

  • neschrianeschria Member UncommonPosts: 1,406

    I am running an older computer that barely makes the minimum specs (p4-1.8GHz, 768 MB RAM, Radeon 9250).  I found that the performance varied a lot, and I had to turn things down pretty low and turn some things off completely, but for the most part, it ran good enough for me. I never had any of those moments that made me want to pull my hair out because I couldn't even MOVE or the performance was otherwise so bad as to make it unplayable. I figure it wasn't nearly as pretty as it could have been, or even as nearly as pretty as it was for other players on the average, but since I don't play a lot of games and I came from playing EQ1 and WoW, I was pretty impressed anyway.

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  • AnagethAnageth Member Posts: 2,217

    Don't play it anymore, but when I did it ran 'excellently'. My graphic card is a NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT and I have 1GB RAM. Load times around Qeynos were usually around 10 seconds, sometimes less.

    No longer visiting MMORPG.com.

  • TymoraTymora Member UncommonPosts: 1,295

    EQ2 runs excellently on my system, but then, I purchased my system just before the release of EQ2, with the sole purpose of running EQ2 excellently . . . so there you have it.

    There are some really nice optimization guides out there that can help make the game run better on various systems.  I recommend lots of RAM and a top of the line video card.  This is one of the best looking mmorpgs, or even PC games in general, that I have ever seen.

  • ItlanChodeItlanChode Member Posts: 69
    Everything on max and it still runs good.

  • bouncingsoulbouncingsoul Member Posts: 211
    pretty crappy for me

    AMD Athlon Xp1700+
    1Gb RAm
    5200 128 MB graphics card

    But when I upgrade I know it'll be awesome.

    is the 7600GT a good card for this game? I'll be using a dual core 2.0ghz with 1GB of RAM as well.


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