I have agro'd the mighty streaming client yet again...

[Alacard]

<p>    Yet again I have agro'd the mighty streaming client.  Logged into a zone & wham, screen lock.  User interface says I need to download 157.4k for the zone (my guild hall).  Here's the facts:</p><ol><li>Nothing downloading</li><li>Ingame chat doesn't work (don't rely on it anyway, too buggy, Ventrilo for the win) since the game is locked.</li><li>Hard drive is spinning like a mad-man.</li></ol><p>    Not quite sure what's going on here.  Quite annoying to have to repeat this 30 second to 30 minute process for every zone whenever something changes.</p><p>    Now, you'd think that as the game preloads it's assets (ummm... this means...?) it would pull down data but that just stays happily at 99% forever.  I guess I should leave my computer on all night while it pulls down data (have to do that with all software, ya'know<sarcasm&gt<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.</p><p>    Now, I've spent countless hours on the phone with SoE EQ2 tech support for a myriad of issues and have always found them to be extremely nice and absolutely not able to help <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>    So...  insofar as I'm concerned, the following are broken:</p><ol><li>Shader 3 (and some features in 1)</li><li>Dual Core or Dual CPU load-balancing</li><li>SLI & Crossfire</li></ol><p>    Ok, I get it, the above don't work, but what about:</p><ol><li>Streaming client</li><li>Ingame voice (<em>servicable = Fulfilling its function adequately; usable</em>)</li></ol><p>So, my word-a-day happens to be Asinine (<em>Extremely stupid or foolish.</em>)  I mean...  my EQ2 client takes more work to maintain than a MSExchange array?  Really?!?</p><p>Is there some maintinance I'm missing out on?  Am I doing something wrong?  Outside of upgrading(?) to a machine from 2004 (Single core w/ a single GT8800 and WinXP w/ 3Gb of memory FTW baby), how can I rectify this?</p>

[Peogia]

<p><cite>Alacard wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>    Yet again I have agro'd the mighty streaming client.  Logged into a zone & wham, screen lock.  User interface says I need to download 157.4k for the zone (my guild hall).  Here's the facts:</p><ol><li>Nothing downloading</li><li>Ingame chat doesn't work (don't rely on it anyway, too buggy, Ventrilo for the win) since the game is locked.</li><li>Hard drive is spinning like a mad-man.</li></ol><p>    Not quite sure what's going on here.  Quite annoying to have to repeat this 30 second to 30 minute process for every zone whenever something changes.</p><p>    Now, you'd think that as the game preloads it's assets (ummm... this means...?) it would pull down data but that just stays happily at 99% forever.  I guess I should leave my computer on all night while it pulls down data (have to do that with all software, ya'know<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />.</p><p>    Now, I've spent countless hours on the phone with SoE EQ2 tech support for a myriad of issues and have always found them to be extremely nice and absolutely not able to help <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p><p>    So...  insofar as I'm concerned, the following are broken:</p><ol><li>Shader 3 (and some features in 1)</li><li>Dual Core or Dual CPU load-balancing</li><li>SLI & Crossfire</li></ol><p>    Ok, I get it, the above don't work, but what about:</p><ol><li>Streaming client</li><li>Ingame voice (<em>servicable = Fulfilling its function adequately; usable</em>)</li></ol><p>So, my word-a-day happens to be Asinine (<em>Extremely stupid or foolish.</em>)  I mean...  my EQ2 client takes more work to maintain than a MSExchange array?  Really?!?</p><p>Is there some maintinance I'm missing out on?  Am I doing something wrong?  Outside of upgrading(?) to a machine from 2004 (Single core w/ a single GT8800 and WinXP w/ 3Gb of memory FTW baby), how can I rectify this?</p></blockquote><p>I recommend the Full client</p><p><a href="http://launch.soe.com/eq2/">http://launch.soe.com/eq2/</a></p><p>I think EQ3 will be out before soe makes 3.0 work like it should</p><p>and sli and crossfire can cause bsod's in Everquest II it doesn't support 1 card never mind 2</p><p>The in game voice chat worked on release then they really broke it good now its bugged broken and hit or miss</p><p>game supports duelcore</p>