Soarem

wrong tbh

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Zormik

I'm running under win vista 64-bit and i hardly crash anymore. I also have 4GB and with the latest memoryfix i can run on higher settings in raids again.

Vista maybe used to be a lot worse but i don't have much issues with it tbh.

Also there's no reason to go quadcore at all. Go for a fast dual core like the E8500 and overclock that one. For the same price then a quadcore you have a much faster cpu that is far better overclockable aswell. Just make sure you go for fast memory and a good mobo and decent cooling (allthough they don't heat much with the overclocking since the E8X00 series are thermally very well designed cause of the 45 nano procedure) if you're gonna overclock.

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Zormik

win xp 64-bit can run on more then 3GB aswell (32-bit versions are limited to 3GB). But imo if you're going for an official version it sounds silly to me to invest money in win xp when the games runs quite smooth on a vista aswell. Driverissues aren't really the problem anymore with vista (at least not for me).

The only thing that bothers me with vista is that directx 10 does not support hardware driven sound solutions (eax, ...), so having a soundblaster x/fi for windows vista is doesn't add anything special over one onboard on your mobo. They prolly are working on this issue i hope.

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Tuna

LIES!

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Zormik

the last times i crashed i was actually playing under win xp to see the differences

I actually felt with 4GB the game ran more fluently under vista and with the latest patches to vista the crashsensibility really improved a lot.

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Anjin

Vista 64bit + Nvidia 8800 GTX = trouble! Having to restart eq2 every hour or so due to graphics issue

Zormik

I have the same setup and i don't have any issues lol.

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Eyan

I ran Win XP64 until 1 month ago and it was fine with 4gb of ram.
Last month I bought a Q6600 + 8800GT. As many have pointed out a dual core is most likely better if you just run 1 instance of the game. But since I usually run 2 instances of the game at the same time and eq2 tend to take up 100% of the core resources I decided that I wanted a quad core to be able to run 2 eq2 instances, parses and teamspeak without any performance issues. Also my Q6600 overclocks fine to 3,3GHz on air cooling so performance is good. But if the newer 45nm quads are availible I would go for those. Also I decided to install Vista 64 ultimate and its running very good so far. No crashes yet, besides on Ekron in VP before the memory leak was fixed. But Vista is finally starting to feel mature enough to run without problems. The drivers seems to be fine in most cases with newer hardware.

So it all depends on how you will use your PC. Lots of 2boxing on same computer = Quad core. Just want to run your computer with your shammy and not much else go for dual core.

Just decide, buy and hurry back to us you damn slacker

Your brother in heals
Eyan

Tuna

LIES!

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Fomka

Download X-Fi Alchemy and your problems are solved. It was created specially for Vista by Creative team to solve that problem your described.