Frames Per Second

[Boldgrim]

<p><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: georgia,palatino">Hello everyone!  Well, I'm just coming back to the game after away for more than a year.  A lot of things have changed.  I have a new computer with a GeForce 8800 and I would like to know my FPS.  Thing is I just can't find the control to show it!  Can anyone help?  Thanks!</span></p>

[Norrsken]

<cite>Boldgrim wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: georgia,palatino">Hello everyone!  Well, I'm just coming back to the game after away for more than a year.  A lot of things have changed.  I have a new computer with a GeForce 8800 and I would like to know my FPS.  Thing is I just can't find the control to show it!  Can anyone help?  Thanks!</span></p></blockquote>Dont think there ever were such a thing in eq2. Fraps should give you a good idea on fps, but remember that it also lowers your dps a bit while its active. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[selch]

When you do above thing, you will realise graphic adapters does not mean squat either. It is all about memory, cpu and HDD speed.

[Woland]

<cite>selch wrote:</cite><blockquote>When you do above thing, you will realise graphic adapters does not mean squat either. It is all about memory, cpu and HDD speed. </blockquote> Pray tell that my new setup willl be "adequate": <b><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115002" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPU:     &... Conroe 2.66GHz</a> </b><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana,geneva"></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana,geneva"><span style="color: #000000"><b><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127288" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Video card: MSI NX8800Ultra-T2D768E-HD-OC GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB</a></b></span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana,geneva"><span style="color: #000000"><b><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231065" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Memory:     G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800</a> </b><b><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130080" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MOBO:     ...ter X-Fi Xtreme</a> <span style="color: #ffffcc"> B/c right now I have: Athlon X2 4400+ ATI X1900XTX 2 GB OCZ PC3200 Biostar Tforce4 U I played EQ2 about a year ago and found the performance....not what I expected. Basically I played EQ2 since 2004, but i'm very picky about performance and expected a certain level of visual quality and FPS from EQ2....so now i'm back with a vengeance and the above setup BETTER run smooth at high quality <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></span> </b></span></span>

[Bright_Morn]

To see your FPS displayed I would suggest <a href="http://www.fraps.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.fraps.com/</a> runs a nice overlay and does video screen captures to boot.

[Bloodfa]

Get 2 more gigs of RAM, especially considering how cheap it's become. 

[Woland]

Bloodfang@Nagafen wrote: <blockquote>Get 2 more gigs of RAM, especially considering how cheap it's become. </blockquote> WinXP 32bit or Vista 32bit doesn't even support 4 GB, max you'll see is 2.5GB-3.5GB (2^32 and mem mappings decision). I might put Vista 64 or XP 64 on another partition, but i'm not ready to use 64 bit (not enough drivers around and a _lot_ of apps don't like 64 bit os). I think 2 GB is enough for EQ2....the GFX has more than enough ram to cover 768mb....and last time i checked EQ2 wasn't using up anywhere close to even 1.5 GB ram.