EverQuest 2 performance discussion thread

[|MaguS|]

Way to bump a 4 month old thread...

[Sgt_Pitt]

Way to bump a 4 month old thread...

Way to be a forum troll...

theres nothing old about tweaking eq2.

ive noticed its running really good lately, the new cpu lets me turn everything up higher too.

[Glus]

eq2 runs ok for me with x2 @ 2ghz, 2 gigs of cas2.5 ram (2 sticks of 1 gig) and gf6800gt (256 megs).

But, my screen resolution is only 1152x684 (all my crt will handle at 100 refresh, anything less makes my eyes tired), and i have shadows and grass off (makes it easier for me to see things that matter, like collection glowies and chests), also I have pixel shader completely off. Pixel shader made game look better for me when I had ati 9800 pro, but with nvidia it just makes everything blurry when I am moving, just ugly (it happens to me with all drivers ever since I started using nvidia card, the card was originally on a 32 bit amd board, so it is somethign about how the card handles it, not system).

So all these features I have off I do not miss at all. When I raided I had textures options set to 256 meg card, but now that I pretty much only solo, I run them at maximum, and I really do not notice texture swapping anymore, even though my card is only 256 megs. Oh I also run it now at 2xQ antialisansing and 16x aniso. I probably only get 20-30 fps, but its enough for me and feels smooth, lol.

[Blacklash]

Go under shadows and set it to min via the drop down box, then untick all other options under the the box in that section. Turning off flora helps too or setting their view distance to min. I strongly suggest killing shadows if you are having performance issues because they are done entirely on the CPU in EQ II.