Building a budget 2nd system for wife 2 play the game

[binro01]

<p>Hello all,</p><p>Trying to build a budget system that will allow the play of EQ2 for a reasonable price point. </p><p> I found a good desktop from levono (aka IBM) w/ a 3 yr warrantee that I will add 2GB od RAM for a total of 3GB RAM. I will also add an EVGA 8600GTS vid card w/ 512MB DDR3 vid RAM. The CPU in the IBM is a dual core AMD running at 2.3GHZ / core. Im able to get this for under 600.00 w/o a monitor. I already have a nice monitor for the rig.</p><p>What settings will I be able to run the game on with this kind of setup?</p><p> Thanks in Advance! </p>

[Homesli]

You are looking at balanced to high quality. Best thing to do is go high quality removing the shadows and you play pretty well.This is pretty much the same system I have.I will just be glad when dual/quad core is supported as the game mainly runs on one processor so the speed of your processor is what counts.

[Openedge]

<cite>binro01 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hello all,</p><p>Trying to build a budget system that will allow the play of EQ2 for a reasonable price point. </p><p> I found a good desktop from levono (aka IBM) w/ a 3 yr warrantee that I will add 2GB od RAM for a total of 3GB RAM. I will also add an EVGA 8600GTS vid card w/ 512MB DDR3 vid RAM. The CPU in the IBM is a dual core AMD running at 2.3GHZ / core. Im able to get this for under 600.00 w/o a monitor. I already have a nice monitor for the rig.</p><p>What settings will I be able to run the game on with this kind of setup?</p><p> Thanks in Advance! </p></blockquote>Suggestion...switch the video card to a 2900pro. Since the nvidia cards have been noted on the forums to be hit or miss...and for the same price you can get a card that I have seen running smooth as butter with an AMD here...and usually much smoother than my more powerful 8800GTThe CPU speed may hurt a little...but seems inexpensive, and will get the job doneLater