Graphics stuttering; multiple computers; frustrated

[Lightloch]

Thanks I will try that soon. Sometimes the stutter seems less than heavily populated zones, but still very annoying.

[Laugher]

I have noticed this too and am on a 30mb down/20up (maybe other way around) connection, while I wouldn't blame it fully on connection this issue seems to be exclusive to emu servers; never had it happen to me on live (or on mac). For me its like a stutter that happens every few seconds on the dot, same time interval every time.

My initial thoughts on this are that the pc I use for EQ is 2gb ram/winxp, but I also have a 512 vid card figured for non-luclin low and/or off particle effects I would think this system could run better, also tried turning my far clip plane all the way down which had little if any effect on the issue.

The reason I mention this now is because the lag in EC after the fungi event yesterday was huge and the problem was certainly worse than I've ever experienced during and after the giveaway even when not in a populated area of the zone.

[fishingme]

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

I have noticed this too and am on a 30mb down/20up (maybe other way around) connection, while I wouldn't blame it fully on connection this issue seems to be exclusive to emu servers; never had it happen to me on live (or on mac). For me its like a stutter that happens every few seconds on the dot, same time interval every time.

My initial thoughts on this are that the pc I use for EQ is 2gb ram/winxp, but I also have a 512 vid card figured for non-luclin low and/or off particle effects I would think this system could run better, also tried turning my far clip plane all the way down which had little if any effect on the issue.

The reason I mention this now is because the lag in EC after the fungi event yesterday was huge and the problem was certainly worse than I've ever experienced during and after the giveaway even when not in a populated area of the zone.

It's not going to be your connection. Just something you need to play with on your computer. You should have no problem with that computer. I've had a lot of problems similar to these, some were fixed by putting EQ onto a thumb drive or external hard drive and running it off of that. Make sure your directx is up to par along with your net framework. I'm unsure if it makes much of a difference but I have my winxp all with service pack 3, free download on microsoft site. With my desktop that I'm playing on (I have a 24" widescreen) I wanted to keep my desktop resolution at 1680x1050 but I was unable to. I had to drop my resolution on my computer to 1024x768, along with doing it in game before eq would work well. OP- I did leave that step out (changing desktop resolution down).