Everquest 2 Coverage at GamespyJun 14th, 2004 at 3:20 PM by Allakhazam

For those of you looking forward to Everquest 2, Gamespy is doing some extensive coverage of the game this week, including screenshots, developer interviews, some movies and tours of some of the game areas. You can access it all from this link.
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The real specs
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# Jun 17 2004 at 1:22 PM Rating: Decent
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To run it with everything on, I believe you'll need the equivalent of a p4 3.0 ghz and a fairly recent video card.

Everyone knows that a game's minimum requirements are meaningless, and have been for 10 years.

The recommended is 2ghz, but does anyone really believe that a new game is going to run well on a CPU that's roughly 3 years old?

Don't get me wrong, i'm sure if you turn off enough features, it will run, but why would anyone move to EQ2 and just to turn all the eye candy off?

I'm betting that 2.4c is the real min. I suspect the video card on the recommended system is about right.

I have an old Nvidia TI200 (which was renamed to something FX at some point, I believe), AMD 1800+ and 1/2 gig of ram, and it can struggle with EQ1 in crowded zones.

I wouldn't consider EQ2 with anything less than an ATI 9800 Pro 128MB (or Nvidia Eqiv).

All that said, I suspect you could get a good idea of realistic min/rec/optimal requirements by talking to SWG users. Perhaps you could up them slightly since the requirements may be slightly higher.

I know my system was virtually useless at the end of SWG's Beta, in virtually empty cities.

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#REDACTED, Posted: Jun 15 2004 at 9:07 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) They still haven't gotten me interested enough to buy this game. Maybe I am just bitter from all the bugs with EQ1, and the way SOE runs things. Graphics are amazing, but graphics don't make a game.
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# Jun 15 2004 at 1:55 PM Rating: Default
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They have begun to realize at least I think they have, that customer satisfaction = profits. Thus the big summit they had a couple weeks ago. I hope it's not too little too late. Sony has alienated a great deal of it's member base over the last few years and some have no intentions on ever returning.

Their statment on the mac sever issues really opened my eyes alot. They basically came out and stated access to all tier 3,4,5 planes were broken and they had no plans on ever fixing it cause it was not profitable for them to do so.

So essentially they sold a expansion to that whole server and then turned around and told everyone they couldn't use 80% of it and never will. How would you like to buy a car and find out it had no transmission? And the company said het it's not profitable to put a transmission in it tuff luck. That's essentially what's happened here.

When the PC servers start to slow down 'it will happen at some point eventually' I guess we can expect the same treatment. If it's not profitable for them to fix a bug no matter how bad it is then I guess it won't be fixed.


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Impressive
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# Jun 14 2004 at 7:15 PM Rating: Default
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From the look of it the graphics in EQ 2 will be outright amazing. A little too amazing. I am wondering if my system will be able to handle it. By the time EQ2 is out my system will prolly be close to a year old. I hope they are keeping in mind the fact that a large % of players will not have a top of the line brand new pc system.

I also hope they are putting this much effort into the content. I would hate to see this be a great looking game that has little to do.
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# Jun 15 2004 at 9:11 AM Rating: Default
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the programers have discussed this quite a bit and they say that the minimum requirements will run it ok, the engine will adjust to what you have. ~ the minimum specs are:

-Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
-Processor: 1GHz or greater
-RAM: 512 MB
-Video Card: DirectX 9 compatible. Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 64 MB of texture memory
-Sound Card: DirectSound compatible audio hardware

even if you needed to upgrade to the minimum specs it wont cost you so much, maybe $200-300 now and even less when EQ2 is released.

the screen shots and movies you see are with the graphics jacked way up to show its potential. Also the developers say that the graphic engine is built so that even with a completely top of the line system wont be able to handle the max settings. So 2 or 3 years after it is released and better hardware is out they wont have to go back and redo the engine, a very good idea IMO. but i agree with you, i went out and spent about $1400 building a PC JUST for eq2, i hope the content is there as that is what got me hooked on eq live :)
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# Jun 14 2004 at 9:20 PM Rating: Decent
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i agree with it all whole heartedly! even the EQ druids site.

Anyway, i am saving my pennys now, because i heard madonna is coming to town and "only boys who save their pennies" make her rainy day.

Thats beside the point, if i have any left over, im gsooo gonna buy a new comp when this comes out
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# Jun 15 2004 at 9:04 AM Rating: Decent
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Well at the gamespy link they said:

Scott Hartsman: Our minimum system requirement is a Pentium-III class machine running at 1 GHz, with 512 MB of RAM, and at least a GeForce 3 class video card.

If you have at least that quality of machine, you can play our game quite comfortably on the "Best Performance" setting, which still looks pretty amazing.

In order to take the visuals up a few notches, we recommend that people play with at a Pentium-4 2.2 GHz, with 1 GB of RAM, and at least a GeForce 5700FX Ultra or equivalent.
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