Is performance Improvement Reasonable For My System?

[wen23]

I am wondering if it would be reasonable to look into upgrading to improve my performance in EQ2. I know that there are several ways to for upgrades with newer games that make use of multiple cores, multiple graphics processors, more memory and so on. The thing is, EQ2 doesn't take advantage of any of these things so I'm not quite sure where to go from here.The system I have runs most things on the highest quality reasonably well, but it starts having trouble when using lots of shadows and as I increase the number of max lights. I know it sounds like a small thing, but I'd really love to be able to turn on environment shadows and increase the lighting quality. Here is what I am using currently:Pentium Core II Duo, 2.8GhZ4GB memoryNVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, 728MBWindows XP HomeAny thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[Williamus]

It isn't likely that you will be able to run the game with fully maxed bars. From what I read the game was coded to take advantage of CPU power, however the actual clocks on processors haven't really gotten higher. Only Dual/Quad core and minor tweaks here and there have happened. Because of this the game can't really play any better. You could get a 3.2+ GHz processor and overclock it and that should help, but that's if you absolutely can't stand what you are looking at now. The game won't utilize any more GPU power I guess. From what I read it was just a bad call and even to this day it affects the performance of players. I'm not super savvy with coding, but I don't think there is much Sony can do about it.