What's the bare minimum to run EverQuest flawlessly?

[Exalt]

I want to get my wife involved on this so I actually don't feel guilty for playing this game. My set up is straight overkill, 2.4 Tri Core, 4GB of RAM, 6870 1GB.

We just had a kid so I'm strapped for cash but what I'm asking is the subject... How much do I need to spend to get her involved?! Or more specifically, stats?

[Robben]

No idea on specific stats, but I bought a $400 toshiba laptop for my grandparents and it runs it just fine. Pretty much any machine built now will run it, and anything in the past 5 or 6 years really shouldn't have trouble.

My machine at home(it's a dinosaur from '06:)

AMD Athlon 3800+ X2
2gb of RAM
ATi Radeon x1650(512mb)

and it runs EQ no problem.

[Webwolf]

It's a 12 years old game. It will run on a toaster.

[Robben]

It's a 12 years old game. It will run on a toaster.

Pretty much. Although I couldn't get the Titanium client to run properly on my friends pos eMachines box. The game would run, but it would would pop up an eqgame.exe "error" on every time you started it.

[tristantio]

My EQ (Titanium client) runs at about ~400 to 500MB of RAM usage.

[Thulack]

Can find things like Dell lattitude d600 laptop for under 200 bucks in some places. with 1gb ram it can handle classic EQ. i have one from ages ago and have 2gb and can run today's version of EQ on it fine with some settings turned down.

[dusk883]

I've installed the game on about 7 laptops... all of them built within the last two years and failed on 3 of them, each of those three laptops said "No 3D hardware detected" if I remember right.. I thought this meant a laptop has to have a dedicated 3D card (no matter how primitive) for EQ to work with Titanium. Am I mistaken?

[criddopher]

I just mocked up a p4 single core (think it was 3.2 no multi core issue) with 4 gigs ram hd5770, raptor 74gig and all the rest for about 300 on newegg.

install windows xp and should have no issues.


*edit* although back in the day I ran an athlon 2700xp with ati9700pro and 1.5 gig of ram. it ran flawless almost.. in the bazaar my framerate would drop to like 20-30fps or so.. still more then good enough to not have to stare at the floor to walk around as ive heard some people say they did

[Juugox2]

well i remeber when 250 mb of ram was alot and i ran eq with less then that :p so i mean imagine a computers specs in 99.. thats all you need really shadows arent classic... and alot of those options in there arent aswell but most dont even work really

to me the shadows make the game look more stupid lol

[SearyxTZ]

if ur computer looks more advanced than this, you should be all set bro

http://www.windows8rumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/old-pc.jpg

[Kevlar]

Pretty sure in '99 I was sporting a pentium 3 133mhz. Should do fine with EQ.

[Troy]

I've installed the game on about 7 laptops... all of them built within the last two years and failed on 3 of them, each of those three laptops said "No 3D hardware detected" if I remember right.. I thought this meant a laptop has to have a dedicated 3D card (no matter how primitive) for EQ to work with Titanium. Am I mistaken?

I have EQ running on my laptop with crappy integrated Intel graphics. Everything has to be turned way down, but at low settings it does run flawlessly. Everything set to low, shadows off, but all clip planes still at farthest so you can see stuff. Resolution 1280x800

Some specs on my laptop: U7600 processor @ 1.2GHz, Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics (up to 384MB SHARED memory, 0 dedicated), 4GB RAM @ I think 667Mhz, running EQ off a 2GB SD card that came with my digital camera.

The cool thing is I can play for like 4 hours on battery.

[Seaweedpimp]

Well i run on a dell from 2005, about 512 mb of ram and 2.40 ghz processor.

I lag.

[OngorDrakan]

I run it on an Acer Aspie 1. Intel Atom 1.66ghz 2Gb Ram, 256 Total video memory. I turn things down like spells/distance if needed, but it runs pretty decent.

[necrosaurio]

I run it on an Samsung N130, Atom CPU, Intel onboard graphics, 1GB RAM.

I have disabled some spell effects but have the clip plane on max. At the native resolution, 1024x600, it runs just perfectly.

[Drem]

i use 2.4ghz athlon something, 2gb ram, 512mb vid card. PoS. old. fat

with shadows on @ 1600x900 unless there's a million ppl it runs fine

[akahdrin]

I ran it on my mom's netbook that is 2 years old....a net book. And by ran, it was pretty much perfect other than a small screen.

[fuark]

My Virtual Boy runs it perfectly, just strafing is a little difficult

[knottyb0y]

Pretty much any desktop created in the past 6-8 years that has a video card of some sort (over 128mbvideo ram) and 1 gig or more Ram will run eq titanium like a champ in 95% of situations.

Laptops have a little more trouble on the higher end when they have integrated graphics. Still i bought a $250 Toshiba Satellite with a single core 2ghz processor 3gb ram and the crappiest integrated intel graphics ever and it still runs the game well. In certain zones (kunark trees i have to adjust the clipping plane some) but its still do-able.

The basic consensus is what everyone says. It does not take much to run this game. Desktops with actual video cards will fair better, but laptops with crap integrated graphics will do fine.

[Archival]

I did run OoW in a P3 667 mhz, with 15 min to zone over new expansions, but old ones zoned in 5 mins, so... =P

[dusk883]

So what does one do when he runs into "No 3D hardware detected" after install? Ran into this on 3 different laptops with integrated graphics (cheap Dell business machines)

[Archival]

Search in for some drivers maybe?
The same thing happened long time ago with my geforce 2 400MX, after I updated drivers EQ ran.
It can be a directx thing too.

[knottyb0y]

So what does one do when he runs into "No 3D hardware detected" after install? Ran into this on 3 different laptops with integrated graphics (cheap Dell business machines)

Ran into the same problem with a work machine once. google for the drivers you can usually find them pretty quick if you are clever

[Gwence]

check your device manager for driver versions then update your bios/integrated graphic drivers if they are outdated which they almost certainly will be.

[Noser]

http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=48891&tab=sysreqs