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<b>Message ID:</b> 25026 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Wed Jun 13 10:01:01 BST 2001 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Bill Costlow <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [eqbards] OT - Equipment question <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1961082929">I use a PIII 800 with 256 Meg of Ram and  GForce II with 32 meg of video memory.  <br/>
I can do three songs with ease -- barring lag which gets pretty heavy at times in Europe -- even with an adsl connection.  4 songs are managable under really good circumstances with, as some others have mentioned, a bit of drop off at the end...<br/>
on guild raids with six groups fighting in close proximity, twisting more than two songs is tough, but managable.<br/>
SOmebody mentioned that Win98 is a poor memorymanager and I must agree -- Can anybody comment on Win ME doing a better job of this?  If upgrading to ME will help me twist songs better, I&#39;ll do it in a heartbeat.<br/>
Tyunes Statevarius<br/>
Bard of the 45th missed note<br/>
  Stephen McCloskey &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:s.mccloskey@...">s.mccloskey@...</a>&gt; wrote: I just recently upgraded because of the same problem, frame rate.  I didn&#39;t<br/>
know what was going to give me what I wanted.  So I played hit and miss.<br/>
Months back I went from 128 meg of PC100 memory to 256 PC100.  I didn&#39;t get<br/>
any noticeable improvement.  I replaced my 300a Celeron (overclocked to<br/>
450) with a P3 700 three weeks ago (fastest chip the mobo will take).<br/>
There was a huge improvement in frame rate.  I can keep my clipping plane<br/>
maxed in burning woods and still have a _nearly_ flicker free run.  I fact<br/>
I did auto-follow through there a few days ago with out a problem.<br/>
However, the song gems are slow to &quot;ungray&quot; during twisting.  If I turn the<br/>
clipping plane down 6 notches (to about 2/3) it becomes a decent trade off<br/>
in viewable distance and twisting time.  Right now I feel the TNT card is<br/>
holding me back the rest of the way.  But with Luclin coming out later in<br/>
the year I want to wait and upgrade the video card then.  To what I don&#39;t<br/>
know yet, depends on the prices and Verant&#39;s recommendations.<br/>
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