System Requirements Question.Follow

If you meet the minimum specs you should be fine, but you'll likely have to run your graphics at lower quality.

Why not less than 4gb?

So would it be useless to run it on the ram I already have? I am looking into the 4gb.

I just talked to tech support and they say there is no way to upgrade past the ram I have, is there anything I can do to increase the performance? I really want to play the game. Oh, and what are zoning times?

Edited, Dec 22nd 2010 8:43am by SilentNightKitsune

Would the lag be bad enough that if I was doing something with a group, like a dungeon, it would affect it too much? Would it be better to change to a different os? Would it just be easier to switch over to XP?

Edited, Dec 22nd 2010 9:35am by SilentNightKitsune

Amen to that lol, that's what I am hoping for. I really want this to work out, I am so sick of WoW. There is only so many times you can make a toon and go through the same areas, even with the changes, I never was able to get myself excited enough to get one past level 40.

Awesome. Welcome to Norrath!

It will be difficult to play the game on the highest settings most likely. When they first made the game, they were operating on the assumption that processors would continue to get faster and faster. Well that never happened, they are about the same speed only 2-4 cores now. Once SOE realized this they tried to modify the game engine to utilize multi-core machines, but it's still not that great. And now they are trying to make the game less CPU dependent and more GPU dependent, but that's still a work in progress.

I built my machine a year ago and it's no powerhorse by any means. I'm running Win 7 with 5 gigs of RAM and a 1 gig Radeon (can't remember the series now, I'm at work, 8500 maybe?) and I do ok. I'm on balanced setting with some tweaks.

I can run the game on highest quality, though I custom tweaked it some to turn off shadows and extraneous flora, but that's mainly because my eyesight is so shoddy that things like that give me headaches. I also don't use Shader 3.0, though when I tried it it ran fine, there's just too many bugs with it still to bother with.

Here's what I have, most pieces were purchased in 2009 (video card in early 2010):

-AMD Phenom II Quad Core processor (~3.2GHz)
-6GB DDR3 RAM
-ATI Radeon HD 4870 (1GB)
-Windows XP Professional 64-Bit

The motherboard, processor and 4GB of the memory (already had a 2GB stick prior) ran me $200, the video card at the time was another $120ish. I think the power supply was about $80 and I also ended up getting a new case because my old one had bad ventilation, which was just over $100. My monitor I got 2-3 years ago for about $175ish, but they're much cheaper now. The OS I got through the college my hubby works at for free. So that's about $700 for everything except the keyboard, mouse and OS, rounding up, though we did build it ourselves.

If you're thinking the one you're looking at would need upgrades as soon as you purchase it you might want to look around some more, seems like it'd get pricey pretty darn quick there. Or if you or a friend know how to build a complete system, piecemeal one together and save yourself some of the premium they charge for prefab systems (plus the bonus of having everything you want in it already). :)

Regardless, the specs you listed should be able to run the game no problem on highest quality. Only time you might have to tune it down would be if you raid.

This. I play on balanced and the game looks nice IMO, on raids I turn off shaders and with a tiny bit of glitz off my game runs better.


Vista 32bit
256mb radeon video card
3.25 gb ram
pentium dualcore 2ghz




Edited, Jan 2nd 2011 9:37pm by Dyadem

So, the I7 CPU has performed well with EQ2 then? I am seriously considering buying that Gateway computer tomorrow for the 1,000 bucks. While it does not have the same one as you Oldblue (I7 920), it does sport the I7 860, which runs at 2.9 GHz with the turbo boost up to 3.6 Ghz (which I am intrigued by and wonder how it would perform with EQ2). The graphics card I think would be good enough with its 1GB of video ram (although I would be eventually replacing it for a much better card when I could afford to do so). Also comes with 8GB of ram.

My Old, Current rig:

2.66 GHz Quad core OC @ 2.9 GHz
8800 GTX Video card with 768 MB VR
4GB RAM, albeit, on Windows XP 32 bit, so I get 3GB.

So, regardless, I would be getting a nice upgraded system. I just would hope the new system could run smooth, steady fps on at least the high or very high quality default settings for my general questing, running around towns and areas, etc. My current system listed above, I usually play on Balanced for everything and even then, it sometimes stutters in some areas... It would be a dream to finally have a system that can play this game with the top quality visuals that have eluded me for so long.