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But not everything was plain sailing within EverQuest's development, and by 1997 problems were starting to arise - namely that of the 3D engine. Software rendering was originally selected as the method of EverQuest's graphical workings, but quickly it became apparent that this wouldn't cut the Norrathian mustard; a new solution was needed, and quick. After much debate, John Smedley decided that hardware rendering was the way forward, and a gamble on the new Voodoo and GeForce cards of the time.
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The first day I played everquest, one of my friends had just bought a Voodoo 3 to play it. It seemed pretty cool so I figured I'd give it a shot. I didn't have a fancy video card with 3d acceleration, and I was playing on a Pentium II, I think it was 266mhz. I started a rogue in freeport, ran around looking for the rogue guild, some chick showed me where and gave me a golden earring with no stats.
Then I got on the boat.
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It took me so long to load that by it was done loading, the boat was already zoning again. I had to use my friend's computer to get off the boat, and shortly after, I got a Voodoo 3 myself.
01-04-2012, 07:39 PM
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