eq2 on the macbook nonpro

[Pe]

<p>i was wondering if there are any tips for getting this to run smoothly on the macbook (c2d, 2gb ram, intel gma 950)?</p><p> i noticed with the UI completely off, eq2 runs smoothly and very nice on high performance, unfortunately when i put the UI back on, it runs sluggish and unplayable.  reason i ask is, with this coming semester ill be spending a lot of time on campus, and always have my macbook with me, and was wondering if anyone found a fix or workaround to this problem, or have successfully gotten eq2 to run great on an intel gma 950.</p><p>heres my setup:</p><p>Macbook Black</p><p>intel core 2 duo 2.16ghz</p><p>2gb DDR2 667 RAM</p><p>120gb SATA hdd</p><p>Intel GMA 950 @ 224 mb of shared vram</p><p>Windows XP Pro SP2 (Bootcamp 2.0(OSX 10.5.1))</p><p>not expecting it to look pretty(thats what my desktop is for), just playable while im on campus.</p>

[Josgar]

It seems that the graphics card is made by intel.Everquest II and intel graphics cards do not get along, but I was thinking of somthing interesting. I have noticed that people with intel graphics cards get better performance with their user interfaces off.  Which would lead me to believe that intel graphics cards can render the game just fine! Which leads me to ask "What if the developers made a user interface that was rendered differently?

[Pe]

<p>i was thinkin the exact same thing; i was also looking for a substitute UI on eq2interface but with no luck.</p><p>the performance is like night and day with the UI on and off, the intel card does render out eq2 pretty well for an onboard card, but there's something about how the UI is rendered thats killing the gfx card.  apperently a lot of people noticed how dramatic of a performance difference from flipping the UI on and off...</p><p> i think SOE should look into an alternative UI for the intel chipsets seeing as the card can handle the 3d portion of the game fine on high performance and to an extent, Balanced...</p><p> albeit i know the card's not designed for gaming, but it would be neat to give subscribers who own nongaming notebooks some mobility freedom when they are away.</p>

[Josgar]

What happens when the UI is in that display backgrounds on everything mode of f10? Is it just as clunky or is it more clunky? (hitting f10 only once)

[Pe]

<p>i tried having it display everything opaque but with similar performance problems.</p><p> however, i did notice by hiding the hotbars alone  i was able to get a huge performance increase resulting in a playable frame rate.   i dunno if theres an optional hotbar UI set which would grant similar performance or not without having to hide the hotbar, but i guess a workaround for this would be to memorize my hotbars (cringe).  </p>