Tell me how to upgrade my toaster

[CmaN]

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

And to me those other issues arent hardware issues as they are settings issues. Turning down FPS helps with the stuttering and choppy gameplay and it changes the way you float. The other thing i have seen cause issues with choppyness is systems that run over 4.0ghz clock speed on their cpu's. Judging that the op is calling his rig a "toaster" i just kinda ruled that out. But as you have said having specs will help rule out/in things as a issue.

Look I'm only interested in getting OP playing in an enjoyable fashion. Here you say its not a hardware issue, but settings - but your suggestion on page 1 was to upgrade to an ssd and drop fps to 30? You seem more interested in forum warrior points then actually helping.

[Thulack]

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

Look I'm only interested in getting OP playing in an enjoyable fashion. Here you say its not a hardware issue, but settings - but your suggestion on page 1 was to upgrade to an ssd and drop fps to 30? You seem more interested in forum warrior points then actually helping.

Slow zoning = hardware issue(suggest SSD)
Choppyness,etc = setting issue (turn fps to 30)

those were my 2 suggestions to his problems. What is your problem is another story.

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

And to me those other issues(my edit other issues are the choppyness) arent hardware issues as they are settings issues. Turning down FPS helps with the stuttering and choppy gameplay and it changes the way you float. The other thing i have seen cause issues with choppyness is systems that run over 4.0ghz clock speed on their cpu's. Judging that the op is calling his rig a "toaster" i just kinda ruled that out. But as you have said having specs will help rule out/in things as a issue.

[EQBallzz]

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

Slow zoning = hardware issue(suggest SSD)
Choppyness,etc = setting issue (turn fps to 30)

those were my 2 suggestions to his problems. What is your problem is another story.

That was what I was thinking as well but all the tweaking I did (including FPS) didn't help. After doing much searching I found some old posts about the hitching issues in EQ and people saying that there is some specific (poor) coding in EQ that requires HD access during gameplay in an unusual way that can't be prevented/limited with large amounts of RAM. When the game does this HD access it causes the hitching in game.

Since I had EQ on a separate drive and it was a SATA drive not SSD it was making this worse. After moving EQ to the SSD drive with my OS install the issue went away completely.

I suppose using a RAMDISK would achieve the same result but if the OP is spending money anyway it's probably worthwhile to get an SSD for overall PC speed and they are relatively cheap (recently got a 500Gb SSD for about 100 bucks).