dukatan

hiho

I get a 280GTX. But i am disepointed
At Raid i Have 24-15 Fraps in a Raidfight. With my 8800Gts i have 27-22 Frames.
Is the driver form the Card so bad?

my System:
C2D 6850 @3,4
4Gb ram ddr2
280 GTX 1 GB
500W NT
Abit IP35 E
Win XP

Have someone an idea?

PS: Other Games get a Prefomance kick. Only EQ2 is worth

Grind

Fixed that for you.

Your card is amazing. The game your playing is a piece of shit. EQ2 was never designed to be run intelligently on a computer.

EQ2 is 100% CPU dependant AND only supports single cores. When EQ2 was written CPU's were advancing super fast, then everyone hit a wall around 3-4Ghz. Since EQ2 hasn't updated their aging graphics engine to utilize the only direction CPUs have been able to grow, the customers suffer.

Very SOE....

Fiyy

I could be way off here but maybe a stronger PS would help ya out, 500 seems low for a card that is power hungry like that one.

Grind

Fiyy has a point.

My friend burned out his 8800GTX when he wasn't using a strong enough power supply. Just a word of warning, for spending that much on a PC. you should probably get a larger PSU. (to be on the safe side)

dukatan

Yea But why do i get in other Games more Frames?
I now 500W are near at the limit, But it works. No Freezes no shoutdown.

This it is: http://www2.atelco.de/2ARdvatvagjdXS...id=240&ref=141

Someone else who have make experience with a 280gtx?

Petgroup

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Leethal

something must be wrong with your setup for you to have worse fps with that card. I recently upgraded to a hd4870 from a 8800 and the fps increase is clearly noticeable.

Ramone

I agree on the PSU needing to be a bit bigger, and the fact that EQ2 is totally CPU driven.

Very small parts of the game are used by the video card.

SoE seriously needs to redo the game engine to use both CPU/GPU.

And if you don't want the video card, just send it to me and I will abuse it ...erm use it well.;)

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firamas

The game was never designed to capitalize on the massive power of the recent generations of GPU's. The truly processing intensive operations are for some asinine reason, 4 years later, still bound to the CPU. I've upgraded from a 7900GTX->8800Ultra->GTX280 in the past few years and while I did see a decent improvement from the 7 to the 8 series, it was nowhere what it should have been. And I still couldn't turn shadows or particles on and expect it to run perfectly. And the GTX280? Heh, worthless for EQ2. Great for games that actually utilize a GPU (i.e. EVERYTHING ELSE DEVELOPED IN THE LAST 4 YEARS), but if you want to see real gains in EQ2, get the best CPU you can afford.

The E8400 is a great price/performance mix and is easily overclockable to 4.0ghz on air cooling. I use it and highly recommend it, I saw tremendous gains in EQ2 after I installed one.

SOE backed themselves into an unfortunate technology corner when they developed this game engine 6-7 years ago. That's excusable; no one is a prophet when it comes to IT. The fact that this game is supposedly a highly supported ongoing project (i.e. a traditional mainstream MMO) and the situation hasn't been rectified by now is not excusable.

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Kampfer

historically AMD/ATI cards have done better with eq2 than nvidia counterparts on average.

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