Terrible framerate? From Streaming?

[DarkGremio]

<p>Recently began playing again, while downloading I decided to stream the game.  I maxed everything out, due to the fact that I have 2 SLI Geforce GTX 570's.  But my frames are bogging down very low.  Is this for the fact that I am stream the data to me?</p>

[Gaarysal]

<p>Streaming might play a small role but from what I understand once you've finished zoning you are all done downloading for that area. Be sure to check if your shadows are being rendered on the gpu or cpu, for me making the switch to GPU it made a massive difference (40+ additional fps).</p>

[Avirodar]

<p><cite>DarkGremio wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Recently began playing again, while downloading I decided to stream the game.  I maxed everything out, due to the fact that I have 2 SLI Geforce GTX 570's.  But my frames are bogging down very low.  Is this for the fact that I am stream the data to me?</p></blockquote><p>EQ2 barely utilises a single video card. EQ2 is primarily CPU intensive. As far as EQ2 is concerned, the 2nd SLI'd card you have, may as well be a brick (it does nothing for you).EQ2 streams the assetts (file) to your local PC, meaning it can send files while you're playing/zoning. It would not impact your FPS during actual gameplay.</p>

[DarkGremio]

<p>Well Im using a i5 2500k</p>

[Lizabethan]

<p>To answer the OP, switching to full would probably alleviate some, if not most, of your issues.</p>

[apwyork]

<p><cite>DarkGremio wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Recently began playing again, while downloading I decided to stream the game.  I maxed everything out, due to the fact that I have 2 SLI Geforce GTX 570's.  But my frames are bogging down very low.  Is this for the fact that I am stream the data to me?</p></blockquote><p>I used streaming for my wife's initial install so she could play right away and found streaming never actually seems to finish.  Doesn't matter how many weeks you let it stream it always redownloads zones you have already been though etc.  It's by far better to do the full install and play that one.  It may take a couple hours to download, but once it's done you only have the updates as they come out.</p>

[TSR-AlexS]

<p><cite>apwyork wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>DarkGremio wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Recently began playing again, while downloading I decided to stream the game.  I maxed everything out, due to the fact that I have 2 SLI Geforce GTX 570's.  But my frames are bogging down very low.  Is this for the fact that I am stream the data to me?</p></blockquote><p>I used streaming for my wife's initial install so she could play right away and found streaming never actually seems to finish.  Doesn't matter how many weeks you let it stream it always redownloads zones you have already been though etc.  It's by far better to do the full install and play that one.  It may take a couple hours to download, but once it's done you only have the updates as they come out.</p></blockquote><p>^^^^ I'd recommend fully downloading it too. Streaming does tend to re-download the same locations and can cause the game to lag. Fully downloading it may resolve your issue. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" /></p>