Slow System Issues

[Lazzdar]

<p>My system is comprised of:</p><ul><li><div align="left"><b>Celeron D 356 - 3.33 Gig. processor (512 kb L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB)...</b></div></li><li><div align="left"><b>1.5 Gig. ram...</b></div></li><li><div align="left"><b>Over 21 Gigs of space available on my hard drive...</b></div></li><li><div align="left"><b>BFG GeForce 8500 GT 512 MB vid card...</b></div></li></ul><p> These are the minimum & recommended requirements as stated by Sony:</p><p><i><b>"What are the system requirements to play?</b>Minimum: Windows® 2000/XP, Pentium® III 1 Ghz or greater, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 9 Compatible video card. Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 64MB of texture memory, DirectSound compatible audio hardware, 56k Internet Connection, 16x DVD-ROM, 10GB Hard Drive Space. </i></p><p><i>Recommended: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista, Pentium® 4 2 Ghz or greater, 1 GB RAM, DirectX 9 Compatible video card. Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 128MB of texture memory or greater, DirectSound compatible audio hardware, Broadband Internet Connection, 16x DVD-ROM, 10GB Hard Drive Space."</i></p><p>I'm pretty frustrated because I run my game on Extreme Performance and instead I get Extreme Lag. I don't run shadows or anything like that... I even tried turning EVERYTHING down/off to see what happened and still massive lag. I'm not a computer whiz, but according to my specs I would think that my computer would be able to run descently at least. Especially on Extreme Performance. Any ideas??</p>

[SureShot]

If I'm not mistaken your system does not meet the minimum requirements.

[Kaliguwra]

He does meet the requirements, I played EQ2 on a Celeron rated at 2.0 GHZ, 1 GIG Of DDR400 RAM, 80 GIG Harddrive, and a nVidia 6600. Most I can say is reinstall the video drivers. First you must remove them completely from your system, using Driver Cleaner Pro, which is free... it's on the net. Run a Spyware scan on your system, and check your internet connectivity. Ive been having alot of problems with my Router and Modem, they were subject to a lightening strike & a surge recently, so performance has been on the lacking.

[Lazzdar]

<cite>Sakbut@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>If I'm not mistaken your system does not meet the minimum requirements.</blockquote>Actually, my system very easily meets the RECOMMENDED requirements.

[Lazzdar]

Uninstalled drivers. Downloaded and reinstalled drivers. Still very laggy.

[SureShot]

I'm referring to the processor.  Isn't a Celeron below a pentium 3/4?

[Kaliguwra]

His CPU came out right before Everquest 2 was released, the Celeron D 356 and the Pentium 4 Prescott are pretty much both comparable. The only difference is that the Celeron I believe doesn't have instructions to run a 64-Bit OS and has a lower Front Side Bus. They both have vast amounts of speed, which EQ2 loves. I've ran this game on a Celeron rated at 2GHZ that was one of the first ones of that speed released and the game ran fine. Of course I couldnt run it on anything higher then High Performance, but the point is I still ran the game. Also, the Celeron D came out -after- the first edition of the Pentuim 4. As a budget chip, it works fine. I would suggest getting another harddrive and doing a reinstall of your Operating System on that, install all the drivers, and then install EQ2 on a bare system. If that doesnt work, install your previous harddrive and lets see what else we can do. Question, is your computer lagging at any other time? Does the Harddrive make excessive noise when doing it's read/write processes? Is your system extremely hot? The littest thing can ruin a computer.

[Lazzdar]

<p>I was playing the trial for LotRO and was having major lag issues on there as well. If not worse than on EQ2. I actually tried what you suggested with that game. I took one of my extra hard drives, installed Windows XP on it, and downloaded LotRO on that so it was the only game on it. If it worked, I was planning on just switching the wires between the two drives between playing the game and doing other stuff. After doing so, the game had not improved at all.</p><p>I do know that when I first log into EQ2 everything runs very smoothly. But after a few seconds of running around the lag seems to grow worse as I approach lag-creating phenomena (players, etc.) and it gets to a certain point and then remains. When I'm in my house everything runs perfectly, for obvious reasons <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. I do have anti-spyware and anti-virus software, I run them and they do find things (with all the surfing you can't really get away from Spyware, etc.) but I take measures to deal with 'em.</p><p>I'm thinking of taking it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy to have them take a look at it and see if they can tell the problem. Assuming it doesn't cost anything.</p>

[Lazzdar]

Well I did a complete cleaning of my tower (fans, power supply, heat sink, etc.). Was absolutely filthy. That helped...a bit. It runs smoothly on Extreme Performance now, but lags whenever I up the settings. Apparently the computer has frozen up a couple times, according to my other half. So I'm thinking I may need to up the power supply. Hopefully I can afford that soon.+