My system specs

[TSR-TrevorG]

For all of those interested my system specs are now located on my profile.  If you want more info let me know I'll add it if I can.I don't want to embarrass TSR Daniel H and request him to post his anywhere...but ya know <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img mce_tsrc=" />[edit]I guess I should cut it off before it's asked. I am not allowed to mention my character names, server, guilds (even they don't know).  I will say out of the  mass amount of alts I have, and the ones I have gotten to 80, I prefer my Bruiser the most, with which I raid with, although I find that Bards (hmm which one) have more utility in raids and Brigands are great for DPS.I'm not really a fan of finger wigglers so I don't have one past 20, but I do have a couple of healers that are fun, wardens mostly as a traveler

[TSR-TrevorG]

Dan...wheres you PC?I know you have an uber 486DX modified with a monster Voodoo 3DFX PCI card in there

[Wingrider01]

<cite>TSR-TrevorG wrote:</cite><blockquote>Dan...wheres you PC?I know you have an uber 486DX modified with a monster Voodoo 3DFX PCI card in there</blockquote>You mean he finally upgraded from the Altair 8088 and the TTY green screen with paper tape input?

[TSR-TrevorG]

Somehow he was able to raid T7 with it too oddly enough.  VP finally made him upgrade.

[TSR-DanielH]

I need an upgrade pretty badly, actually.  The game is completely stable on my machine, though.  I haven't had a game crash in over a year even when running Bit torrent and Itunes in the background.<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />CPU: P4 2.6ghz  (overclocked up to about 3.1ghz at times)RAM: 1GB (increased voltage and minimized timings)Graphics Card: ATI x800 proMotherboard: Asus p4c800-e I then have the operating system on one 74gb WD raptor and the game on the other.  My operating system is a version of XP that has been modified pretty heavily.  I did lots of work on the registry, disabled ALL system sounds, messed with the page file, etc etc...  All in all its amazingly functional if not entirely glamorous.  Also, I moved this to performance support since Trevor doesn't know where to properly place threads and because he was talkin crap...By the way, did you get your new work computer yet Trevor?oooooooohhhhh, sore subject?

[TSR-TrevorG]

........ >.<Thanks for the buffalo snacker btw

[Lunarin]

Hey guys... I've been following your post and it seems like you're all pretty knowledgeable.  And i have a question.<span>I'm playing eq2 on a 3 year old computer roughly. I've made some upgrades, and changed location. I'm experiencing choppiness, lag etc. Even when i'm playing on the LOWEST performance settings. My system is: DFI LANPARTY nF4 Ultra- <a href="http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199113#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;" class="kLink">motherboard</span></span></a> AMD Athlon 64 2.2 GHz processsor Nvidia 7800 GT video card 2 Gb of Kingston DDR2 RAM Western Digital Raptor 36Gb SATA 1.5Gb/s HDrive 19" <a href="http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199113#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;" class="kLink">LCD </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;" class="kLink">monitor</span></span></a> running at 1280x1024 Road Runner High Speed Online(9800kb/s download, and 380 kb/s upload) Windows XP After inspecting EQ2's website for recommended system req's i realized that i surpassed the minimum <b>AND </b>the recommended. So I decided to inspect my network. I saw that my ping is consistently close to 800 and my Fps is closer to 10, or even 6 when i'm running around in zone. I have NO OTHER programs running in the background. After noticing this trouble I ran a Trace test to the Befallen <a href="http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199113#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: blue;" class="kLink">server</span></span></a> from 2 different locations the first was My EQ computer and it read out as follows: Tracing route to ableq2-01-01.everquest2.com [199.108.202.33] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.108.48.1 2 8 ms 11 ms 8 ms pos0-0.rochnystf-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.2.81] 3 11 ms 11 ms 7 ms srp2-0.rochnybtn-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.3.120 ] 4 284 ms 294 ms 285 ms ge-6-0-0.albynywav-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.224 .122] 5 279 ms 284 ms 316 ms ae-5-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.74] 6 303 ms 302 ms 311 ms ae-1-0.pr0.nyc20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.163] 7 305 ms 312 ms 293 ms tge5-3.fr4.lga.llnw.net [69.28.152.241] 8 300 ms 307 ms 317 ms tge2-3.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.171.153] 9 37 ms 34 ms 36 ms sony.ge4-12.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.156.214] 10 318 ms 306 ms 312 ms vl47.ashaens-2.sonyonline.net [64.37.144.181] 11 306 ms 306 ms 303 ms ableq2-01-01.everquest2.com [199.108.202.33] Trace complete. The traces I ran on a computer in a different state(I'm in NY and it was in PA) the other comp didn't even make those llnw.net stops and it's overrall time was about 50 ms. After running more traces... my comp got a pretty consistent 300ms outcome. Wondering If someone can explain the trouble i seem to be having here?? Why the jump and delay?</span>

[TSR-DanielH]

Lunarin,Are you running your internet off the motherboard or a seperate network interface card?  It's possible that the problem is being caused by the network interface on your computer.  If you have a spare network card laying around you may want to try popping it in to see if there's any improvement.  Also, if you're running your network cable from your motherboard you'll probably want to check if there's a chipset/bios update available from the manufacturers website.-PLEASE NOTE-Unless you're absolutely sure that you know what you're doing, don't update the bios without help.  If you make a mistake during the update you could easily kill the motherboard.  It's definitely not the kind of thing you want to go into unprepared.  In other words, we wont be liable if there's a problem with the updating.  Please be careful.

[Wingrider01]

<cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite><blockquote>Lunarin,Are you running your internet off the motherboard or a seperate network interface card?  It's possible that the problem is being caused by the network interface on your computer.  If you have a spare network card laying around you may want to try popping it in to see if there's any improvement.  Also, if you're running your network cable from your motherboard you'll probably want to check if there's a chipset/bios update available from the manufacturers website.-PLEASE NOTE-Unless you're absolutely sure that you know what you're doing, don't update the bios without help.  If you make a mistake during the update you could easily kill the motherboard.  It's definitely not the kind of thing you want to go into unprepared.  In other words, we wont be liable if there's a problem with the updating.  Please be careful.</blockquote><p>Have to agree with TSR-DanielH - built in cards are convienient but they tend to be resource hogs. Personally I disable them and plug in a nice Intel 10/100/1000 dual port nic like the PRO/1000 MT or when I can find them reasonallby priced a quad port nic like the PRO/1000 GT. Tad bit of overkill but have the good fortune of being able to get the equipment for work purposes also<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>The pings you are show in the tracert are pretty high after hop 3 and get worse through hop 8. The hand off to the llnw router on hope 9 drops it back down to what I would expected to see for a backbone router.</p>

[ganjookie]

I saw we stay on topic and make fun of the TSRs. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />