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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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If we install these graphic files, will there be any performance hitches or effects at all on performance?
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If you have a decent system the difference in loading times / frequency of crashes will be negligible, but if you're answering batphones on a 1997 Packard Bell then it might be a problem.
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Originally Posted by khanable
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(the client will crash if it reaches a certain point, which it can in several zones)
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The Titanium client suffers from memory bloat which cumulatively adds up the longer you play, which is why the more times you zone or switch characters the higher the chance is that you'll end up crashing as it writes more and more data into memory. And your physical memory makes no difference - whether you have 2 GB or 32 GB of onboard RAM, the client will throw an exception and crash to desktop all the same once it gets near 2 GB (roughly 1.8 GB) of memory usage, due to being a 32-bit application.
So these are problems that have always existed in Titanium, and you'll experience them regardless of which textures you're using, though you'll experience them more often if you install the high-resolution Trilogy textures or other upscaled/custom textures. Our textures are more client-friendly than the 4x upscaled "realistic but better clarity" package that Chebby released in 2013 because we've converted a bunch of stuff to DDS, which decompresses in real-time much more efficiently due to mipmapping, therefore using less overall memory.
As far as system requirements go, if you have at least a dual-core with a mid-range GPU, you can use these textures without issue, though you'll probably experience some slowdown if you have particles enabled during a raid, but that would be true even without installing EQ Classic HD.