Ok i just got back into evercrack i mean everquest after a 4 year ish hiatus to find that the game lags on a high end pc??? Specs: Amd fx 6 core black 3.3ghz (i tried overclocking to 4ghz for more fps no score) 8gb ddr3 ram at 1333mhz (oced to 1600 when i did cpu) 1tb Hd at 6.0gb/s Nvidia geforce 650 Gtx Windows 7 64bit pro Any idea why i get from 5-40 fps after lowering settings from high to mid-high? (balanced aint much better)\ Edit: forgot to mention im running the game at 1920x1080
Performance in eq2 doesn´t follow any sence of logic, as i think of. Cause guildmate got a I3 3220 with a HD7770, even in raid he got around 40 fps (PoW) on mid-high.... well my specs pretty old but run modern games well (better then eq2) q8300 (@3Ghz) 8 GB RAM at DDR2800 with a hd5870... i barely get over 40 (outside of raids).
Yes, its an old engine..... there will be no optimization in the near feaute.... eq2 best bet still be singlecore high ghz (as high as possible), graphcard didn´t bother that much at all (at least on my graphtool, eq2 barely hits 60-70% usage)
or if you have the Cool'N'Quiet drivers running they may cause a issue. these technologies have always caused issues with the game, both AMD's version and the one intel utilizes. Run everything at full settings (except for flora and shadows since I detest them) on a Intel I5 3750 (3.4 normal, 3.8 turbo) with a Nvidia GTX680 crd, will get 30 in raid, 80 in the cities that can spike up higher depending on what is happening
Due to the specs of your system, what kind fps you got on modern games (choose one, i bet every game will shoot higher fps then eq2, or will have way better quality ^ ^)
The only time I run into lag is on contested open zone raid mobs and even then it's not terrible but as soon as there is a group or more of pvp (when I was on pvp server) the game practically locks up. So I downloaded DC Universe online the other day (SoE game) and I couldn't believe how smooth it ran. Many others playing in the same world, high set graphics, very heavily populated with npcs/mobs and all kinds of random events going on. The loading times, and there are very few of them took about 1-2 seconds which was very refreshing from the loading screens on eq2. I also tried Rift and WoW and never once had lag issues or long load times so it is definitely just EQ2 itself.
That being said I wanted to add that I don't see any improvements coming for EQ2 when they are investing so much time, money and workforce into EQNext. My hope is that EQNext is down right amazing and will get me excited to play an EQ game again.
Only two I play are eq2 and wow any more but get decent fps. the previous box was a amd, with the next lower 600 series care, got rid of coolnquite and made sure the Nvidia drivers are set to Prefer maximium perfromance on the Power management mode (this in itself is a improvement)