Combating the Combat Lag Storm

[Fing]

<p>Had my first group experience the other day in the Darkpaw instance.</p><p>Lag was pretty severe.  I have a beefy system, I think with a lot of ram and newish nvidia 7800, I think, video card.</p><p> I read a post somewhere where the poster said that he turned his video settings all the way down during and instance to combat lag.</p><p>What did he mean by this?  Is it easily done?  By easy I mean one checkbox. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p> Does anyone else turn down their video settings during an instance run?</p>

[tass]

eq2 button options performance and then in the box that says ballanced or whatever click it and scroll down to highest performance for crappy graphics. I have a 7900 gt nvidia card and I usually run instances with ballanced or maybe higher quality. Always have highest quality on in open zones though.

[Jrral]

One possible tweak: before adjusting other settings, go to the options that control shadows and turn them all off. I found that having shadows on produces a performance hit all out of proportion to what you'd expect, and turning them off improves performance more than any other single options change.

[Brigh]

ProfitUI: Click the little V for Video Controls, click on one of the four presets.

[Sunlei]

<p> You really shouldn't be having "combat lag storm" or any lag in a small group, low level  instance zone. The eq2 game runs on your computer with updating of actions/locations on the map sent over your isp. yes, in a very crowded zones, raid or whatever there's a lot of info going on and without best computer/isp people will lag.</p><p> I suggest posting your computers stats in the tech forum, there is a locked post on top of the tech forum that shows you how to.  There has to be something going on with your computer/isp to have any lag in a small instance zone. You shouldn't have to turn the graphics into sock-puppet blobs to not lag. </p>

[Ultimega2]

Also...in Greater Faydark...no matter how much you love flora, you may have to turn that off in the video settings when you are there.