Heh! I have you all beat ;p I'm running a Cyrix 233Mhz w/64Mb RAM and a
crappy lil' back-woods ruraal connection that allows me a MAX connect rate
of 24k on my 56k modem (Old phone lines), and can still twist 3 songs
(unless in a group or on a real laggy connection). If I can do it, you
folks can too :o)~
-=B=-
The Rathe
19th Season of training as a Bard
>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
>Not sure John, I have a RIVA TNT and I have been able to twist 3 songs,
>exactly once successfully. It a P3 450 with 128m RAM also. I can twist 2
>no problem usually, but whenever I hit a summoning animation its hell.
>Course I have everything on, particle, 2 layer sky, etc. I'm probably
being
>held back by my connection but there is no dsl in my neighborhood yet.
>
>Kitasi of E'ci
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Kim [mailto:kim@...]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 11:32 AM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Quick Keys/Songs
>
>
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brendan Daly wrote:
>>
>> The advantage is in twisting.
>>
>> Instead of moving the mouse and clicking - esp hard during some mage
>> spells due to screen saturation.
>
>Does anyone *not* have this problem? My system is pretty high
>end (Celeron 450, 128MB RAM, Voodoo 3 card) and ever since I
>got the extra lights at L24, unless I turn particle density
>off (meaning I don't see spell effects like root at all), I go
>from twisting 3 songs easily to barely twisting 2. I'm
>thinking of changing my video card because a friend with a
>Riva TNT said it wasn't that bad on her system (same CPU
>speed, RAM). Of course she isn't a bard so she doesn't have
>to juggle songs. Do any of you have an easy time twisting
>with lots of spells flying? What video card do you use?
>
>The thing that really irks me about this is that it's a client
>side problem. The determination that "you haven't yet
>recovered" to sing another song is completely client side, and
>completely dependent on the speed of your system. When I had
>a P200 with a Voodoo 1, it took ages for the song buttons to
>un-grey when I stopped singing. When I upgraded to my current
>system, it was almost instant, except as noted above when lots
>of spells are flying. I would prefer to be able to turn off
>the button un-grey animation sequence and suffer a flat time
>delay which doesn't change with CPU speed.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
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