I actually had W2K installed for a brief period of time, but the drivers for
the soundblaster and GeForce was not very mature so I reverted back to W98.
Havent considered switching to Win ME at all.
On a side note I quite easily do 3 songs. Depending on lag it can take me a
few combat rounds to get the timing right, but after that I never have
problemos with 3 songs.. Thought it might interest you since Im from europe
too (denmark) with a 256kbit/sec ISDN. I use TDC as provider. Before I got
ADSL I used ISDN and tried serveral providers:
- World Online
- CyberCity
- Mira
- TDC
- Uni2
- Get2Net
For everyone but TDC and uni2 the connection was ok when I used it outside
prime hours (primehours being 19:00->23:00) but lag increased (for some
providers severly) during primehours.
With TDC and the lag dont increase much even during primetime, and with Uni2
the connection is PERFECT!!
Uni2 is however way too expensive!
Its a bit more difficualt to test providers when using ADSL *grin*, so I
havent experimented around..
Well back to topic..
I can twist 4 songs with only a few failures, but its simply too much a
hazzle to do. With 3 songs I can throw in a /g add
/g mezzin /g charmed if needs be. That is impossible with 4. I also do not
twist during downtime unless its really needed (Cleric need to get mana and
health is low for instance (cantana, healing or cantana, clarity, clarity..)
Musiker
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Costlow [mailto:atlatyl@...]
> Sent: 13. juni 2001 11:01
> To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] OT - Equipment question
>
>
>
> I use a PIII 800 with 256 Meg of Ram and GForce II with 32
> meg of video memory.
> 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...
> on guild raids with six groups fighting in close proximity,
> twisting more than two songs is tough, but managable.
> 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'll do it in a heartbeat.
> Tyunes Statevarius
> Bard of the 45th missed note
> Stephen McCloskey <s.mccloskey@...> wrote: I just
> recently upgraded because of the same problem, frame rate. I didn't
> know what was going to give me what I wanted. So I played
> hit and miss.
> Months back I went from 128 meg of PC100 memory to 256 PC100.
> I didn't get
> any noticeable improvement. I replaced my 300a Celeron
> (overclocked to
> 450) with a P3 700 three weeks ago (fastest chip the mobo will take).
> There was a huge improvement in frame rate. I can keep my
> clipping plane
> maxed in burning woods and still have a _nearly_ flicker free
> run. I fact
> I did auto-follow through there a few days ago with out a problem.
> However, the song gems are slow to "ungray" during twisting.
> If I turn the
> clipping plane down 6 notches (to about 2/3) it becomes a
> decent trade off
> in viewable distance and twisting time. Right now I feel the
> TNT card is
> holding me back the rest of the way. But with Luclin coming
> out later in
> the year I want to wait and upgrade the video card then. To
> what I don't
> know yet, depends on the prices and Verant's recommendations.
>
>
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