That sounds about right... I usually regard Tuesdays as my "day off" from EQ2 anyways. More chores to get done so I can goof off the rest of the week!
Angeliana our new dev said the downtime will only be 2 hours, so I am wondering if there are any problems. I also have not seen any update notes yet.
Woo-hoo! That'd be cool; I don't remember a lot of squawking on Test about overly long downtime, but then again, we don't tend to squawk much there. Uwk who also hasn't seen any update notes, either :-/
I do remember some talk about the downtime being long. We are more civilized about such things, complaining is not changing how long it takes to improve the game.
Well, the server down time notice says 4 hours predicted. We'll see. It'll be worth it regardless. It'll improve performance and no doubt make future upgrades and repairs easier. For the life of me though, I'm STILL trying to figure out where this upgrade came from when the loudest voices here keep insisting the poor devs do nothing at all for us.
I also suffer from shadow flickering; tried all settings without success. My understanding is that this is linked to post-processing and transparency with Nvidia. Upgrading to 64 bits won't fix this at all.
Forgive the super super dumb question, but will we need to deinstall and install new? Or fire the old launch pad up and this will magically fix everything to 64bit?
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm hoping too. Not expecting anything otherworldly short term, but a few QoL fixes would be great. Long term is something else though, this is where I hope to see more advancements, building bigger and better worlds -> https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...eq2-building-bigger-and-better-worlds.605571/ Please upvote these two: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...ter-and-shadows-on-64b-can-it-be-done.604142/ and https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads/shadow-and-water-refraction-glitches.600513/ The more ppl that upvote = the more likely that someone will finally fix it after all these years.
The 64-bit upgrade is coming today? I didn't know! If they need to be down half the day to fix the crashing every time I zone into practically anything, that would be just fine. People said that this would fix it. I've been looking forward to it. I can't play an entire day without crashing at least 5-6 times. PLEASE let this fix it!
I have the ASUS rog Strix advantage gaming edition laptop. Latest Ryzen 9 CPU, Latest 6800M Graphics card 12GB video memory, The integrated graphics is so powerful that I only use that and hardly any heat to be noticed and fans run quiet. On integrated I can get up to 182 fps but I have it locked at 63 fps. The dedicated will run 280 Fps but then a little heat and somewhat loud fans. It will be interesting to see what a 64 bit EQ2 client will run.
The flickering I see is sometimes around the exit door of the bank/broker room, also a collector in there, towards the fountain in Qeynos. Depends on if I'm in front of the broker or not. If my character is behind the broker, no flickering.
Hmmmm... I was really hoping for some level of graphics upgrade, BUT the game performance is definitely better. I can spin in a circle at lightning speed and not have the game choke trying to render that. So far so good, and here's hoping it leads to even better things.
