Performance

[Meneldil Narmacil]

<p>Does anyone have a good link to a video settings guide to improve performance for eq2?  My machine is the following.</p><p>q9550 2.86 ghz quad core</p><p>ati 4890</p><p>8gb ram</p><p>In greater faydark with a good amount of settings high I drop to single digits and times and never really go beyond 30.</p><p>I already turned shadows off.</p><p>Thanks.</p>

[TalisX1]

<p>Turn off flora as well. As far as the rest goes you just have to tweak it for yourself. rendering distance is something that can be adjusted and have a big impact on framerate.</p><p>Silat</p>

[Peogia]

<p><cite>Meneldil Narmacil wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Does anyone have a good link to a video settings guide to improve performance for eq2?  My machine is the following.</p><p>q9550 2.86 ghz quad core</p><p>ati 4890</p><p>8gb ram</p><p>In greater faydark with a good amount of settings high I drop to single digits and times and never really go beyond 30.</p><p>I already turned shadows off.</p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>That is about the best performance this game has to offer until they add video card support unless u wanna lower graphics to extreme performance or something</p>

[MurFalad]

<p><cite>Peogia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Meneldil Narmacil wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Does anyone have a good link to a video settings guide to improve performance for eq2?  My machine is the following.</p><p>q9550 2.86 ghz quad core</p><p>ati 4890</p><p>8gb ram</p><p>In greater faydark with a good amount of settings high I drop to single digits and times and never really go beyond 30.</p><p>I already turned shadows off.</p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>That is about the best performance this game has to offer until they add video card support unless u wanna lower graphics to extreme performance or something</p></blockquote><p>I run my AMD PhenonII 955 3.2Ghz + ATI 4870 on extreme with GPU shadows and shader 3.0, its generally 30 FPS average overland and much higher indoors (often double).But its hard to say what the lowest bits are, I don't think I see single digits anywhere, but Kunzar jungle and the waterfall in the Moors of Ykesha and a lot of Sundered highlands are a bit choppy (or were when I last visited).Guessing at your spec I would have thought that High settings with GPU shadows should be good (on my 4870 it makes no FPS difference now to go from low to best quality on the GPU shadows since GU5<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.I also find shader 3.0 to be a net increase in FPS everywhere with the 4870 so it should be for the 4980, in doors it can net some insanely high FPS improvements so I would recommend turning it on for that graphics card.  On my laptop with a 2.4Ghz core 2 duo (with its weak HD2600 graphics card) I have to turn both shadows and shader 3.0 off, but run at high settings fairly ok, so unless the PhenonII is doing something very good for EQ2 I would have thought that should be ok.I don't think short of getting a 4Ghz+ overclocked I7/PhenonII we can see reliable 60FPS everywhere, but 30FPS feels smooth in EQ2 while other games that report 30FPS feel choppy.</p>

[Daladfar]

<p>I got</p><p>I7 860 OC to 3.36  quad</p><p>EVGA GTX 460 1gig  OC edition</p><p>4gigs ddr3 1600</p><p>160gig raptor drive</p><p>Now i see alot of people with basically the same set up saying Shader 3.0 and shades turned on runs perfect for them with high FPS -- i dont get it -- if i run with those 2 on FPS drops dramatically for me -- i have to run at balanced with those 2 turned off to get 55-60 fps with em on it drops down to 10-20 fps and thats not even in raids.</p><p>So Whats The Trick ?</p>

[TSR-DennisG]

<p>I personally run with:</p><p>I7 860 StockEVGA GTX 4808GB DDR32x 300GB Velociraptors in Raid 0 </p><p>With shader 3.0 enabled I noticed that my frame rates still dip down  very low, especially in more graphically intense zones.  I generally just play with it disabled, as I prefer smoother game play over eye candy.  I recently upgraded to an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and will see if thats made any improvements (most likely will just improve loading times).</p><p>I would also like to see what other settings players use to up the graphical quality while still keeping decent frame rates.</p>

[Martinus]

<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My system is :</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i7 950 stock</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Radeon 5870</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">12gb ddr3</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2x750gb black edition WD</span></p><p>I was running with Shader 3, with respectable fps. But lately. Do not know if this is the cause of video drivers update or new game updates. When I activate Shader 3. I get horrible fps.</p><p>I am looking for an nvidia 580.</p>