I have to make a point here. It is not intended as a flame. I am not exagerating , or inflating any numbers to make a point. I have an XP1800 processor, 1gb of PC2700, a Radion 9600XT 128 ddr . I run the game at balanced setting , It looks fantastic. I have never seen any screen shots of any other MMORPG that even come close. It needs to be mentioned that i rarely experience any sort of lag or low framerates.
Grafics quality is not opinion, just like anything else there are criteria that define quality. Things like texture quality,and light sourcing. We could talk about what makes quality graphics for days and not cover it all. The simple fact is that EQ2 does dozens of thing graphicaly that other games dont, they cant they are inferior.
That is a tecnical fact.
I would like to suggest to the person that mentioned getting headaches with EQ2 to replace your monitor or increase the refresh rate on the monitor and/or in the video settings for your display. This sometimes happens for sensitive people when the frame rates drop on a low refresh rate. If that doesnt help seek medical advice as this is not normal.
It just occured to me that I should mention so as not to misslead people that i have overclocked my processor to 2.095 Ghz and this does make a little bit of a difference. But to all those that have graffics perfomance problems, please fix your PC,s before you flame SOE for horrible perfomance, it may not be them that is at fault.
You may have to flash your Bios on your MB and your Vid card and make sure the chipset drivers for the MB are current and support the latest Video card drivers. Sometimes installing the latest drivers for your x800 will cause big problems if your Bios is running an old version. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the game ran on my PC. If you cant do these things i just mentioned, well not to sound harsh but i hear X-box has nice graphics.
Now to say that WOW has better graphics is just silly, its like saying that a 72pinto is better than a Porche 959 because it gets better gas milage and you cant drive a stick. If you prefer the look of WOW, thats fine, preferance is 100% personal. But please be big enough to recognise that a review should be based on quality not personal preference, especialy when one prefers what is obviosly technicaly inferior.