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scaramooshscaramoosh Member Posts: 3,424
in Everquest II

Turned out my GPU just became faulty, apparently theres been lots of problems with the 7900 series.

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  • scaramooshscaramoosh Member Posts: 3,424
    Bloody wait like 1 hour to talk to a TSr for them to ignore everything i say :S What i don't get is SWG is fine and it seems to run with 2 cores but EQ2 which is a newer game cant?

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  • ColdmeatColdmeat Member UncommonPosts: 3,409

    It's part of their 'scaling things for teh FUTAR!' plan. Much like SLI, which if memory serves, doesn't work none to well with EQ2, either.

    See, they've looking into their crystal balls, and they know that dual core proccessors are just a passing fad.

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    In all seriousness, that sucks though. I imagine, like pretty much everything they say will never change, as soon as it becomes an issue, once the mainstream begins to adopt dual core chips, you'll suddenly find they've begun supporting them.

  • jd269jd269 Member Posts: 225

    The mainstream has been supporting duo core processors for some time.. almsot every new PC has a dual core processor inside, all but the extremely low end ultra-discount PCs are now dual core.  It is hardly a passing fad, in fact quad core is making it's debut in windows PCs this December.  If there are indeed problems with EQ2 and dual core PCs that is outright pathetic.  WoW with it's cartoon-like engine supports dual-core processors perfectly.


  • sbowlingsbowling Member Posts: 37

    My dual core AMDs work fine with EQ2 (if anytthing could be considered to work fine with EQ2), so it could be a system build/intel thing.

    That reminds me. I need to cancel my EQ2 account again. I keep going back, but it's just a plain crappy game and it looks and performs like crap and the animation quality is crap and.. well, the new heads you can use keep the characters from looking like flaming queers, but it's still not much of a game.

  • scaramooshscaramoosh Member Posts: 3,424

    I had to download both US and EU version on the launchpad, then i had to change my RES to the same one my desktop is. After that the TSR told me if your settings are on extreme you have to turn shadows off or it causes graphics corruption

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  • MoiraeMoirae Member RarePosts: 3,318

    Originally posted by sbowling

    My dual core AMDs work fine with EQ2 (if anytthing could be considered to work fine with EQ2), so it could be a system build/intel thing.
    That reminds me. I need to cancel my EQ2 account again. I keep going back, but it's just a plain crappy game and it looks and performs like crap and the animation quality is crap and.. well, the new heads you can use keep the characters from looking like flaming queers, but it's still not much of a game.


    If it was really so crappy, you wouldn't keep going back or be posting on message boards about it.
  • FaelanFaelan Member UncommonPosts: 819
    I'm getting the impression that there are people out there running EQ2 very well on the Core 2 Duo CPUs. Are you sure you're up to date on all drivers, service packs and what not? I hope to put together my new system tomorrow which just happens to be a Core 2 Duo system. I'll post any findings in a couple of days.

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  • ColdmeatColdmeat Member UncommonPosts: 3,409

    Originally posted by jd269

    The mainstream has been supporting duo core processors for some time.. almsot every new PC has a dual core processor inside, all but the extremely low end ultra-discount PCs are now dual core. It is hardly a passing fad, in fact quad core is making it's debut in windows PCs this December. If there are indeed problems with EQ2 and dual core PCs that is outright pathetic. WoW with it's cartoon-like engine supports dual-core processors perfectly.

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  • ArremusArremus Member Posts: 656

    Originally posted by Faelan
    I'm getting the impression that there are people out there running EQ2 very well on the Core 2 Duo CPUs. Are you sure you're up to date on all drivers, service packs and what not? I hope to put together my new system tomorrow which just happens to be a Core 2 Duo system. I'll post any findings in a couple of days.


    I had problems with warping around in EQ2 when I got my new dual core system, but I just did a search on the EQ2 forums about it, which lead to a post on how to fix it, got an AMD update, applied that and warping issues gone.
    I'm not sure if there are some dual core problems that can't be fixed this way, but I still see a fair amount of warp-hacking in EQ2. And the fact that it's the same people all the time, being reported for it, SoE have obviously questioned them and found it's a case of their setup, not hacking.
    Which leads on to think that if SoE haven't (or can't) fix such problems, then their 'super' engine really is up to shit.

    I don't mind EQ2, it's all I can find to play that I enjoy while waiting on something new to come out. Have been playing the game since release, on and off, and have seen it all evolve.
    But I call one almighty, huge, massive BOLLOCKS on the claim that EQ2's engine was designed with future hardware in mind.
    The future hardware it was designed to support, supposedly, is now out and common, and EQ2 still runs like a piece of crap.
    Even my higher end system has to be played on pretty much a 'balanced' setting in PvP so that I don't get too much graphics lag when there are 20 people around.

    EQ2's engine is just very, very badly coded. The best way to experience this is to get an expansion when it comes out. Hell, go to Clefts of Rujark (sp?) in SS now, I have to drop my settings two notches just to move around in there.
    The engine for this game is very simply badly coded. It is, when all is said and done, an expensive piece of shit.

    Notice how no other companies flocked to license the 'groundbreaking' EQ2 engine for their games, like companies are starting to do with the Hero Engine etc? It's been out for a couple of years now. Hell, maybe other companies can't use it, but I highly doubt any would pay the money SoE demanded for it anyways.


    The world seeming dead in the home cities? Well, I see a lot of people around in Willow Wood etc on Venekor, but the social 'places' seem to be more the /ooc chat within hunting zones.
    Is pretty sad really.

    But that's also the kind of game it is. Just go out and hunt or quest.

    I don't mind the game really, but am sure as hell ready for something new and better to come out.

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