I can't say it's Windows 8.1 as I did a fresh install of Win 7. Granted it was hard to find enough compatible drivers to get most of everything working, but a fresh install of EQ with every tweak I could come up with, yielded the same stutter. Overall the program ran better, crashed less, but I never could get rid of that jitter that occurred every seven seconds or so.
As for EQ, I know it doesn't require much to run, and I'm not looking for a powerful machine. Heck, the first computer I played EQ on back in 99 had a Voodoo Vid Card with only 16 megs of ram ( talk about slow zoning, not to mention the constant blue screens of death ) and it never caused these problems. I'm also loathe to give HP more money this soon, but they have a decent setup with a AMD R7 M360 graphics card that comes in at $430. Otherwise, I may just take a chance on a base I3 with HD graphics and hope for the best.
This post probably doesn't even belong within this forum, but I worry about my current laptop's longevity due to heat.
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