HD4870 and Vista 64 Slower Performance.

[Runelaron]

<p>With the new HD4870 and Vista 64, EQ2 now seems to run slower with less frames per second for the same quality settings.</p><p>Also when stated that Texutures are based on the Video card memory I meet all the requirments but it still drastically slows down when turned on.</p><p>I was just wondering what EQ2's engine is based on and will there be a update to the engine to better suppored card based rendering. Maybe even mutli cores.</p>

[damicatz]

The engine is based on spaghetti code.It's a bloated unoptimized mess and it's been that way from the start.  SOE used the smokescreen of "being designed for the future" in order to cover the fact that they had a [Removed for Content] on their hands.  I also wouldn't count on it getting fixed.  This game has had terrible performance for it's entire lifespan and nothing has been done to address the issue.  SOE is more in adding new stuff rather than fixing the existing stuff and the core of the game so that they can put new bulletpoints on the advertising material.

[BetaEQ]

<cite>Runelaron wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>With the new HD4870 and Vista 64, EQ2 now seems to run slower with less frames per second for the same quality settings.</p><p>Also when stated that Texutures are based on the Video card memory I meet all the requirments but it still drastically slows down when turned on.</p><p>I was just wondering what EQ2's engine is based on and will there be a update to the engine to better suppored card based rendering. Maybe even mutli cores.</p></blockquote><p>Make sure your Nvidia/ATI drivers are completely gone and your running the newest driver's from ATI.I really like my 4870 over the 7950GX2 I had before.</p><p> Everquest II is a CPU intensive game that loves lot's of memory.It has a memory leak so the more you got the better.With Vista you want to be running at least 2gb+.When EQ2 first came out it supported multi core.Was a bug with it and they took it away.Was a long time ago so id say neither is gonna happen any time soon.We all wish they would do these upgrades and many have asked.</p>

[Runelaron]

<p>Well here is my entire DX diag info.</p><p>Time of this report: 9/2/2008, 18:50:50       Machine name: CENCORED   Operating System: Windows Vista^TM Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930)           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)System Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD       System Model: MS-7388               BIOS: Default System BIOS          Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz             Memory: 4094MB RAM          Page File: 1458MB used, 6958MB available        Windows Dir: C:Windows    DirectX Version: DirectX 10DX Setup Parameters: Not found     DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 64bit Unicode</p>