New to EQ2 - Machine performance question

[Wintrm]

All,I am new to EQ2 and am having some strange performance issues given my machine specs. I'm wondering what I can run this game at smoothly, since nothing I try seems to help..Specs:Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 - oc'd to 3.8ghz4gb RAMnVidia 9800 GX2 (using the 177.41 drivers)SATA RAID-0 drive configurationI've tried XP SP3 and Vista 64bit running the game in a variety of settings.Given the machine configuration, what is a realistic target for graphic options?

[Cassea]

<cite>Wintrmte wrote:</cite><blockquote>All,I am new to EQ2 and am having some strange performance issues given my machine specs. I'm wondering what I can run this game at smoothly, since nothing I try seems to help..Specs:Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 - oc'd to 3.8ghz4gb RAMnVidia 9800 GX2 (using the 177.41 drivers)SATA RAID-0 drive configurationI've tried XP SP3 and Vista 64bit running the game in a variety of settings.Given the machine configuration, what is a realistic target for graphic options?</blockquote>What resolution?It really depends on your settings but on my:Nvidia 9600GTVista 644gig ramAMD X2 3100mhzI get about 30-35fps in towns and 35-45fps elsewhere.I have shadows turned on but a few settings are really killers of framerate and if you turn textures up too high you can get stuttering as the textures are loaded for the first time from your hard drive into video ram as you move around. Higher textures look better but they can be 4x as large and thus take longer to load.-JB