performance improvement by SLI?
 

hey im about to throw in a 2nd 8800GTS 640mb in my rig. im running on a am2 4800+ with 4gb of ram on xp. now my question is, right now i can play on balanced at 1680x1050 once i get the 2nd card in how good will the performance improve? will i be able to play at higher than balanced?

Moved your post out of the 3 year old thread, please don't necro post...

And to your question, my estimation is that you will see ZERO performance increase. EQ2 is CPU limited - the one graphics card you have is already much more than you will ever need for it. If you want more performance, by a fast single core CPU and faster harddisks. ;)

i agree completely with gm9
some of the other little tips you can use to help speed up your machine is 1 better cpu/motherboard . associate other programs with other other cores like if you open web pages and use photoshop and WMP at the same time make them use a different core .

also increasing your ram helps ( to a point and depending on what you have type and speed and if you are running xp or vista)

also keeping EQ installed on a seprate HD keeps it from getting less fragmented(some people think they are getting video lag when they are really getting paging lag)

also agreed, unless you're running 64 bit xp, the 4 gig is a waste, I'd upgrade to at least a dual core, if not quad, then you should see performance increases.:D

If you are four-boxing I guess, since EQ2 only uses a single core (or if you are watching youtube, playing mp3, ripping some DVDs etc. while playing). ;)

PS: the OP already has a dual core.

DUH, that'll teach me not to post while sleeping :D Anyways, you mean most people don't do 64 other things while playing??? Damn, and here I am designing blueprints, webpages, and various other silly things while I play!:eek:

I do see your point tho.:rolleyes:

...modding interfaces, posting on forums, yeah I know what you mean ;)

Multi-Core Not Supported
 

As far as I can tell, Everquest II does not make use of multiple core processors. I recently upgraded my machine to a dual core and when I check the processes I find Everquest maxing out one core to 100% while the other core goes essentially unused. Would you know if Sony has any plans of properly supporting multi-core systems?

When I try to run other applications that do make use of multi-core setups I find that program being throttled because the core that is running Everquest has no resources available or the program regularly crashes because it needs balanced core loads.

It's just bad advice to suggest that someone upgrade to a multi-core system to increase performance when the game itself does not support multi-core processing.

I don't think it's bad advice at all. Multiple cores allow the game to max out one core and take full advantage of it while all the other programs and windows running in the background can chew on the second core in so doing leave EQ2 free to use 100% of it's chosen core.

Thats also great for multitasking... The game does have an in-game browser now but I still window-out quite often to use a 'real' browser.

If they haven't yet, I sincerely doubt they will.
It's not only quite hard-coded to run on a single core, the whole game engine is so archaic in general, doing a lot of things in software that normal games use the graphics card for. (hence graphics upgrades doing almost nada after a certain early point)

Still a nice game and all though, just don't expect it to perform like even somewhat contemporary products.