What's the bare minimum to run EverQuest flawlessly?
 

I want to get my wife involved on this so I actually don't feel guilty for playing this game. My set up is straight overkill, 2.4 Tri Core, 4GB of RAM, 6870 1GB.

We just had a kid so I'm strapped for cash but what I'm asking is the subject... How much do I need to spend to get her involved?! Or more specifically, stats?

No idea on specific stats, but I bought a $400 toshiba laptop for my grandparents and it runs it just fine. Pretty much any machine built now will run it, and anything in the past 5 or 6 years really shouldn't have trouble.

My machine at home(it's a dinosaur from '06:)

AMD Athlon 3800+ X2
2gb of RAM
ATi Radeon x1650(512mb)

and it runs EQ no problem.

It's a 12 years old game. It will run on a toaster.

Pretty much. Although I couldn't get the Titanium client to run properly on my friends pos eMachines box. The game would run, but it would would pop up an eqgame.exe "error" on every time you started it.

My EQ (Titanium client) runs at about ~400 to 500MB of RAM usage.

Can find things like Dell lattitude d600 laptop for under 200 bucks in some places. with 1gb ram it can handle classic EQ. i have one from ages ago and have 2gb and can run today's version of EQ on it fine with some settings turned down.

I've installed the game on about 7 laptops... all of them built within the last two years and failed on 3 of them, each of those three laptops said "No 3D hardware detected" if I remember right.. I thought this meant a laptop has to have a dedicated 3D card (no matter how primitive) for EQ to work with Titanium. Am I mistaken?

I just mocked up a p4 single core (think it was 3.2 no multi core issue) with 4 gigs ram hd5770, raptor 74gig and all the rest for about 300 on newegg.

install windows xp and should have no issues.


*edit* although back in the day I ran an athlon 2700xp with ati9700pro and 1.5 gig of ram. it ran flawless almost.. in the bazaar my framerate would drop to like 20-30fps or so.. still more then good enough to not have to stare at the floor to walk around as ive heard some people say they did

well i remeber when 250 mb of ram was alot and i ran eq with less then that :p so i mean imagine a computers specs in 99.. thats all you need really shadows arent classic... and alot of those options in there arent aswell but most dont even work really

to me the shadows make the game look more stupid lol

if ur computer looks more advanced than this, you should be all set bro

http://www.windows8rumors.com/wp-con.../08/old-pc.jpg