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I am just curious what other people with similar setups as me use for their screen resolution. My computer is rather new, with an onboard Nvidia video card, one of the GeForce 4 line. I have 512 MB of RAM but 64 MB of it is dedicated to the video card (something which was not advertised but I can deal with it). I have all the Luclin models activated, and my spell effects and sky are set low. The only laggy places are PoK when I first zone or log in, and the Bazaar (of course). Oh, and my monitor is a 17" flat screen (not LCD).

So, my native resolution is 1024x768. It's a good size, but I would like a bit larger resolution. I fiddled around a bit and although the text shrinks I know I can use the /chatfontsize commands to increase that. But have people had very noticeable issues with performance when doing this? Or does the increased viewing area more than make up for a slight increase in lag? Or are there even any stability problems when increasing resolution past the native desktop one? I will often Alt-Tab out of EQ to look something up, or just browse the web during downtime, will different resolutions make a difference?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Game on,

The Oneiromancer

Kozul you are absolutely wrong! I have by far one of the worst computers for Everquest. It is about 5 years old, amd k62 processor which is equal to pentium 2, it has 400mhz... yes thats what i said 400 MEGAHERTZ, 256mb of ram, which i upgraded from 64mb of ram, 32mb video card, which is very old and disgusting... i upgraded that from no video card at all... i have to have no new character models on. clip plane all the way down ( i cant see anything ) have to know exactly where im going lol. I have to have it on the lowest graphic settings. But i still manage to play somehow. So if your computer is p4 1.8ghz, 512mb of ram, and 32mb video card. Please be greatful for the computer you have. If I even go to Luclin ( forget ever going to PoP) or the new expansions. I get such bad lag with everything down that I cant stand it. its hard to play in groups and I tend to die alot more than I should.

I have a Toshiba laptop 1.2MHz with only 512Mb RAM and an Nvidia 32Mb card and I run at 1024x768 with little to no lag (except for the heavily populated areas - PoK, Bazaar, etc).

I think that whatever resolution you feel comfortable with is what you should use. I only have my 15" laptop screen and by reducing the font size and chat window sizes, I can still have my view pretty uninterrupted. Oh, and I also fade everything to like 15% so I can see right through it.

Starshana
Cleric of Tunare
Torvonnalous server

Uhm - sorry for the double post.

My computer at work is - well - rather lacking!