Memory Useage

[aclease]

<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I recently received an invitation to come back for a month for free, and I decided heck why not, lets see if they have fixed some of the issues I've had.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">I built a new system since the last time I played which includes:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pentium 4  930 (3.0ghz dual proc latest CPU drivers)1 gig of DDR RAM (dual channel so 2 500 meg matched)Nvidia 8600 GTS PCIESata 2 250 gig drive at 7200 RPM</span></p><p>My previous system utilized an AMD Athlon with an Nvidia FX 5200 and ATA100 drive, and it ran ok, with some stuttering but not a whole lot, and ran Kelethin just fine.</p><p>I noticed when I downloaded and started playing Neriak that I was getting an awful lot of stutter even out in darklight. I attempted to turn sound off and down to a single channel incase it was having a hard time there, and there was nochange in the amount of stutter. I then updated my graphics card drivers to the newest drivers as of yesterday, and even with the lowest selected option in game I still get an amazing amount of stutter. I finally ported my warden from neriak to Kelethin where the stutter continued. I poped the game into windowed mode and looked to see what the ram useage was at. </p><p>Now this is where it gets pretty bazare, as when I boot up and have nothing running I consume 240 meg of my ram. EQ2's process at the time was consuming 380-420 meg of ram, which I was cool with. I went to my performance tab to see 1.3 gig in use on my ram. I did a double take and went back to the processes tab to see what was eating it all up. I saw nothing there except the 380-420 meg in use by EQ2, so I logged in and camped desktop. I am not kidding when I say the second EQ2 unloaded it dropped right down to 240 meg instantly...</p><p>Now I would like to continue to play EQ2, but with a memory leak consuming 640 meg above what is listed on the process manager, it is going to mean that I have to either buy more ram on my limited budget, or sony will have to look into whats causing such massive memory leaks that are over double what they are reporting.</p>

[Killerbee3000]

sadly the high memory usage has been around for a long time, no fix has been found yet. you can run the game with 1GB, it will work.. just not blazing fastupgrading your ram to 2 GB will give you a big boost in eq2 performance, it would cost approx 90$ - 100$, well worth it, afterall its everquest your doing it for<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />sure it would be nice if they would find a way to reduce memory usage... but well..

[aclease]

<p>At some point Sony should look at what they put out for system requirements, because at 1 gig if I'm stuttering so bad that the game is near unplayable at points, I couldn't imagine meeting the required specs at 512 meg and hoping to do more then stare at the ground.</p><p>The specs for Kunark btw,</p><p><b>Required Specs:</b></p><ul><li>Windows^® 2000/XP </li><li>Pentium^® III 1 Ghz or greater </li><li>512 MB RAM </li><li>DirectX 9 Compatible video card </li><li>DirectSound compatible hardware; Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 64MB of texture memory </li><li>DirectSound compatible audio hardware </li><li>56k Internet Connection </li><li>16X DVD-ROM </li><li>10GB Hard Drive Space </li><li>Original EverQuest II and a valid EverQuest II subscription are required</li></ul><p><b>Recommended Specs:</b></p><ul><li>Windows^® 2000/XP/Vista </li><li>Pentium^® 4 2 Ghz or greater </li><li>1 GB RAM </li><li>DirectX 9 Compatible video card; Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 128MB of texture memory or greater </li><li>DirectSound compatible audio hardware </li><li>Broadband Internet Connection </li><li>16X DVD-ROM </li><li>10 Gigabytes Hard Drive Space</li></ul><p>I can throw a gig of ram at it, but frankly thats just a cover up for their junk, or putting a rug over the spot your dog pee's on as another way of putting it. I would hope that with an expansion coming out that Sony would be interested in cleaning up this black hole and give people a complete product that they can then upgrade. </p><p>Oh well perhaps by the time they give me another free month they might actually care to meet their agreements.</p>