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Posted: December 3rd, 2005
llamapoopy
1. Defragment your hard drive! After every install on your hard drive will fragment files and folders. This causes a signifigant slowdown in ecerything that uses those files. I suggest you buy or download Diskeeper to do this, as it is a lot faster than the windows defragmenter and does a much better job at defragging your drives.

Start> press C- Switch to category veiw and press "Rearrange files to make programs run faster" For diskeeper i actually got it on my bittorrent on my old comp so i kinda cant give the file or anything as i dont have it...

2. Add more RAM! The game says the minimum requirements for it is 512 MB. The games does not run very well with only this much. You should use atleast 1 GB RAM in order to get maximum performance.

A good place to buy RAM at is at Newegg.com

3. Change you paging file! Go to Start > press c for Control Panel >Switch to classic Veiw> System > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Virtual Memory and change your Minimum and Maximum size for your paging file. The minimum should be how much RAM you have. The maximum should be 1.5 X your RAM.

4. Put your paging file on another hard drive! It will allow your hard drives heads to read and write at the same time.

5. Turn off indexing on your hard drive! Turning this off will increase performance because the computer won't have to register it in it's fast search file.

6. Another way to greatly improve preformence is to turn down the complex shader distance.

(this is in the EQ2 game under options)


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Posted: December 3rd, 2005
tault_discoduck
rofl, those may be the ugliest screenies ever... but, you did rewrite it the way we sugested- so premium recomended.
Posted: December 4th, 2005
foil_ball_boy
kewl, i'll try this when i get back home
Posted: December 7th, 2005
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im sorry.. but really.. isn't it just common kowledge to defrag your pc.. and anyone can google "improve pc performance" and get tips on how to speed up your computer
Posted: December 7th, 2005
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I was really confused how this was a trick or something as well davus.
Posted: December 7th, 2005
llamapoopy
Geez don't be mean. I am sorry that it wasnt a spiffy uber trick or anything, but i thought it might help someone that needed to get a lil less lag or to speed up there comp. Maybe for a more basic person that knows very little about the computer. I am very sorry that my post does not fit your uber requirements. I was just trying to help, but as usual i am beaten down by the admin who is all mighty and supreme...
Posted: December 8th, 2005
tault_discoduck
/shrug I tried to help. I even resized your screenshots for you so they weren't so huge.
Posted: December 8th, 2005
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theres another way to imp. performance, Ill give you some screenys later...

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Posted: December 8th, 2005
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Well im not shooting you down just wondering why this is posted in eq2 submissions and not lets say off topic or general discussions.

In fact i just moved it :)
Posted: December 8th, 2005
llamapoopy
Well, it was for improving eq2 ingame performance mostly. That is why i said to trun down the complex distance shaders.... But Sure if you disagree then fine. However it is my birthday so i it really doesnt bother me as to what you have to say.
Posted: December 8th, 2005
llamapoopy
oooh oooh sorry discoduck, i didnt meant to sound like any of what i said was at all directed towards you. I am sorry. that you for resizing the screenies, i have a high res so i wouldnt notice the largeness. Sorry discoduck!
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