zoning optimization?

[GnashingOfTeeth]

Has anyone done any research on this?
Bandwidth or HDD speed dependent? Luck of the draw? Server load?
Curious, thanks

I have a good SSD, wondering if there are any tips ?

[Ziggy]

turn on memory cache, use the smallest (default) texture files, maybe look into eqplaynice. honestly anything under 1 minute is totally NOT CLASSIC

[kaev]

Originally Posted by Ziggy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

turn on memory cache, use the smallest (default) texture files, maybe look into eqplaynice. honestly anything under 1 minute is totally NOT CLASSIC

Wrong. In true classic, i.e. pre-Kunark, zoning in less than 15 seconds was the norm unless you had a rig so weak it you were lucky you could even play the game. Longer zone times were more a Velious thing.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wrong. In true classic, i.e. pre-Kunark, zoning in less than 15 seconds was the norm unless you had a rig so weak it you were lucky you could even play the game. Longer zone times were more a Velious thing.

Not true. On average, it would take me 4 minutes in 1999. Sometimes, I'd miss the next docks when on a boat because of the time.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not true. On average, it would take me 4 minutes in 1999. Sometimes, I'd miss the next docks when on a boat because of the time.

:shrug:
I started in '99 with a 200MHz Pentium MMX, 128MB of RAM, and a 64MB Voodoo Banshee video card, over 56K dial-up. Zone times were ~ 10 seconds on average. I remember having to wait ~15 seconds after being trained out of Crushbone or I'd zone back before the train reset. Maybe that was a good rig at the time, seemed pretty unimpressive compared to what my friends were playing online FPS games with. I do recall people with non-Voodoo video complaining a lot about performance.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

:shrug:
I started in '99 with a 200MHz Pentium MMX, 128MB of RAM, and a 64MB Voodoo Banshee video card, over 56K dial-up. Zone times were ~ 10 seconds on average. I remember having to wait ~15 seconds after being trained out of Crushbone or I'd zone back before the train reset. Maybe that was a good rig at the time, seemed pretty unimpressive compared to what my friends were playing online FPS games with. I do recall people with non-Voodoo video complaining a lot about performance.

My box in 2000 was a 266mhz with 48mb of RAM and a 16mb Voodoo 3 (I upgraded from some stellar 2mb onboard graphics to make play smoother ^^)

My zone times were 5min+ in Velious and I would often get booted from groups while zoning because they'd thought I went LD even after explaining that I was a SLOW zoner. The best part was, group changes while zoning caused you to become group bugged, requiring you to log, so I spent a couple more mins logging out and 5 more to log back in.

I couldn't take the boats to Kunark either because I wouldn't some in until the boat had already left the zone causing me to immediately return to loading. Was only able to escape the load loop in BB. Great times ^^

[mr_jon3s]

Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

:shrug:
I started in '99 with a 200MHz Pentium MMX, 128MB of RAM, and a 64MB Voodoo Banshee video card, over 56K dial-up. Zone times were ~ 10 seconds on average. I remember having to wait ~15 seconds after being trained out of Crushbone or I'd zone back before the train reset. Maybe that was a good rig at the time, seemed pretty unimpressive compared to what my friends were playing online FPS games with. I do recall people with non-Voodoo video complaining a lot about performance.

Well with that rig of course you would zone fast. But most peope playing in 1999 had PoS comps.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

:shrug:
I started in '99 with a 200MHz Pentium MMX, 128MB of RAM, and a 64MB Voodoo Banshee video card, over 56K dial-up. Zone times were ~ 10 seconds on average. I remember having to wait ~15 seconds after being trained out of Crushbone or I'd zone back before the train reset. Maybe that was a good rig at the time, seemed pretty unimpressive compared to what my friends were playing online FPS games with. I do recall people with non-Voodoo video complaining a lot about performance.

64MB video card would have been about the best you could have in 1999.

[Pringles]

Ram disk.

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Pringles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ram disk.

mmhmm.

Using EQLite I put aside 2gb for a ramdisk, it's stupid fast.