Question about bard swarming and pc performance

[Caridry]

anyone ever swarm on a junk PC? I would like to make a bard, but am afraid ill never be able to swarm because of my PC. I usually never lag, but sometimes will get the "twitches" which i heard can instagib you while swarming.

Specs
Intel Core2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16ghz
6gb ram
ati radion 7750 HD

[evilkorn]

They can start rubber banding sometimes, but I swarmed fine with my core2 quad.

[Swish]

Might be okay, just keep your clip plane lower than most people would (can make it annoying to pull), and have your spell effects/everything else low.

Start with small pulls (3-5 mobs or something) and slowly increase it and see what happens.

[indiscriminate_hater]

close all other applications on your computer, turn off shadows, use low quality textures, turn off sky, low sound quality, minimum clip plane, minimum actor clip plane, /hidecorpse all, turn off spell effects, turn off DoT damage text... and keep the mobs out of your field of vision

[Brocode]

ramdisk kills those twitches, install it, make a new eq small folder, it will use your ram instead of your hard drive, avoiding any twitch from loading of memory.

[webrunner5]

close all other applications on your computer, turn off shadows, use low quality textures, turn off sky, low sound quality, minimum clip plane, minimum actor clip plane, /hidecorpse all, turn off spell effects, turn off DoT damage text... and keep the mobs out of your field of vision

Lol, other than that, a piece of Cake. :D

[drktmplr12]

I came here because i thought we were talking about bard swimming and pc performance.

was disappointed.

[myriverse]

Came here expecting bard hate. Glad there was none.

Sing us more songs, music men!

[jarshale]

anyone ever swarm on a junk PC? I would like to make a bard, but am afraid ill never be able to swarm because of my PC. I usually never lag, but sometimes will get the "twitches" which i heard can instagib you while swarming.

Specs
Intel Core2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16ghz
6gb ram
ati radion 7750 HD

Biggest swarm I've done is only about 25-30 so far but I've had no issues even with maxed out draw distance. My comp is fairly similar to yours but I dunno about your gpu. I'm using an nvidia 750 ti gtx.

[Pokesan]

thought it was hard drive causing the twitches/stutters

[Hmotzart]

When bard swarming the only problem you will have is when the dots land, it lags you then because of the amount of info sent to you. Just make sure you know your limits and do not have logs on. If you keep your /log on it saves this info to a file and it will kill you above 30 mobs no matter how bad 4$$ your pc is. I have helped lower end pc barders in the past and they can run 30-40 mobs just fine. If you are after record pulls do not bother on a lower end pc.

Remember /log off is your friend as a swarming bard.