Bought a new PC yesterday...

Erriondrivan · 07-18-2007, 02:03 PM

Ok I don't really know anything about computers, so bare with me...

I got an...

-Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400

-2048 MB DDR2 Memory

-nVidia GeForce 7300LE

I'm not sure what other info is important...

So I figured this would be a nice upgrade from my old system which was about 5 years old, only had 1gig of ram on it. And I've loaded EQ2 and can't seem to play it on settings any higher than extreme performance. Basically it's playing the same as it did on my old PC, except I can zone faster. My frame rate sucks, and it feels like im moving in slow motion.

Basically I'm having the same issues that this guy had... http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=372047 .

My guildy told me that my problem is my dual core, and that EQ2 isn't meant to be played on one... But I've read many other people's speccs on this forum and now I'm assuming he's wrong.

I've played with the options, with shadows, all the sliders... but nothing works except playing the game on extreme performance... and I could have done that on my old machine.

Any suggestions?

Bloodfa · 07-18-2007, 02:19 PM

Even though it's a new rig, I'd start with the video drivers and download the newest for that one from nVidia (or the video card manufacturer). Vista? Which make is the PC? Dell, HP, Gateway ...?

Hardain · 07-18-2007, 02:30 PM

That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all.

Woland · 07-18-2007, 03:28 PM

Hardain wrote:

That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all.

I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself.

Erriondrivan · 07-18-2007, 05:21 PM

Sullus@Blackburrow wrote:

Hardain wrote:
That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all.
I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself.

Is putting in this new video card diffficult? I think I replaced the video card on my old PC, but I don't remember... You just open the side and slide it in and the monitor plugs into the port stickin out the back, right? I'm a noob sorry :-x

Bloodfa · 07-18-2007, 05:30 PM

Piece of cake. You have one screw to remove that holds the car in place, then lift it out, pop in the new one (which should have a power connector). Load drivers, and away you go...

Erriondrivan · 07-18-2007, 06:25 PM

Sullus@Blackburrow wrote:

Hardain wrote:
That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all.
I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself.

Is that card the same as this one? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8211142&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat107700050041&id=1166235297937 If so it looks like it'd cost less if I ran over to best buy and picked it up

Wingrider01 · 07-18-2007, 06:48 PM

Erriondrivan wrote:

Sullus@Blackburrow wrote:
Hardain wrote:
That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all.
I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself.
Is that card the same as this one? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8211142&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat107700050041&id=1166235297937 If so it looks like it'd cost less if I ran over to best buy and picked it up

The one at best buy is a 256 meg card, the newegg card is 512 Meg

TSR-ChrisL · 07-18-2007, 06:56 PM

The Best Buy card is not quite as good as the one from Newegg. It is still a very decent card and would run EQ2 pretty well. You may want to call Best Buy and see if they have any in stock before going to the store. If you can though I would hold out for the one from Newegg SMILEY

StoneySilen · 07-18-2007, 09:30 PM

You also need to make sure your PC even has a PCI-E slot and that the 7300LE isn't onboard or something else funky. Post your PC's specs as requested in this thread: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=353617 We also need to make sure your PSU can handle a faster card. Posting the above needed info should allow us to find out this info for you.

Erriondrivan · 07-19-2007, 01:41 AM

So I went to BestBuy and got the GeForce 7950 card, and installed it, and now the game is running beautifully, even on balanced.

Thanks for everyone's help!

07-18-2007, 02:19 PM	#2
Bloodfa Server: Nagafen General Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,873	Even though it's a new rig, I'd start with the video drivers and download the newest for that one from nVidia (or the video card manufacturer). Vista? Which make is the PC? Dell, HP, Gateway ...? __________________

07-18-2007, 03:28 PM	#4
Woland Server: Blackburrow Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 13	Hardain wrote: That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all. I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself.

07-18-2007, 05:21 PM	#5
Erriondrivan Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 45	Sullus@Blackburrow wrote: Hardain wrote: That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all. I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself. Is putting in this new video card diffficult? I think I replaced the video card on my old PC, but I don't remember... You just open the side and slide it in and the monitor plugs into the port stickin out the back, right? I'm a noob sorry :-x

07-18-2007, 05:30 PM	#6
Bloodfa Server: Nagafen General Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,873	Piece of cake. You have one screw to remove that holds the car in place, then lift it out, pop in the new one (which should have a power connector). Load drivers, and away you go... __________________

07-18-2007, 06:25 PM	#7
Erriondrivan Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 45	Sullus@Blackburrow wrote: Hardain wrote: That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all. I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself. Is that card the same as this one? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8211142&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat107700050041&id=1166235297937 If so it looks like it'd cost less if I ran over to best buy and picked it up

07-18-2007, 02:03 PM	#1
Erriondrivan Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 45	Ok I don't really know anything about computers, so bare with me... I got an... -Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 -2048 MB DDR2 Memory -nVidia GeForce 7300LE I'm not sure what other info is important... So I figured this would be a nice upgrade from my old system which was about 5 years old, only had 1gig of ram on it. And I've loaded EQ2 and can't seem to play it on settings any higher than extreme performance. Basically it's playing the same as it did on my old PC, except I can zone faster. My frame rate sucks, and it feels like im moving in slow motion. Basically I'm having the same issues that this guy had... http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=372047 . My guildy told me that my problem is my dual core, and that EQ2 isn't meant to be played on one... But I've read many other people's speccs on this forum and now I'm assuming he's wrong. I've played with the options, with shadows, all the sliders... but nothing works except playing the game on extreme performance... and I could have done that on my old machine. Any suggestions?

07-18-2007, 02:30 PM	#3
Hardain Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Finland Posts: 565	That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all.

07-18-2007, 06:48 PM	#8
Wingrider01 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,999	Erriondrivan wrote: Sullus@Blackburrow wrote: Hardain wrote: That 7300LE is garbage with capital C. It's just pure crap and not made for gaming at all. I agree wholly with Hardain. Take it from me, I've been building my own PCs for the past 10 years, the video card is very important for EQ2 as well as CPU. You should difinitely change the video card. Here's a very affordable and excellent performer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814143071 It's a Geforce 7950GT 512MB from BFG and only $259.99 which is a steal. This will give you the performance you're looking for and last you a while. This is also a reason never to buy pre-built computers. You will ALWAYS overpay and get the lowest quality components which they can possibly put into the system, especially video cards. Building a computer is really simple these days. Honestly I would return the PC for a refund and build a system 5x better myself. Is that card the same as this one? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8211142&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat107700050041&id=1166235297937 If so it looks like it'd cost less if I ran over to best buy and picked it up The one at best buy is a 256 meg card, the newegg card is 512 Meg __________________ Fixing computer issues, one SOC7 at a time. Yes Jim, the user has experienced the dreaded PICNIC error

07-18-2007, 06:56 PM	#9
TSR-ChrisL Tech Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 114	The Best Buy card is not quite as good as the one from Newegg. It is still a very decent card and would run EQ2 pretty well. You may want to call Best Buy and see if they have any in stock before going to the store. If you can though I would hold out for the one from Newegg

07-18-2007, 09:30 PM	#10
StoneySilen General Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 883	You also need to make sure your PC even has a PCI-E slot and that the 7300LE isn't onboard or something else funky. Post your PC's specs as requested in this thread: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=353617 We also need to make sure your PSU can handle a faster card. Posting the above needed info should allow us to find out this info for you. __________________

07-19-2007, 01:41 AM	#11
Erriondrivan Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 45	So I went to BestBuy and got the GeForce 7950 card, and installed it, and now the game is running beautifully, even on balanced. Thanks for everyone's help!