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Started by PsYcHoPrOg Apr 30, 2000 at 8:19 PM 7 replies 600+ views
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PsYcHoPrOg
PsYcHoPrOg
I had just played everquest on my pathetic 56k modem, and suprisingly, there was no lag! A huge 3d world with chat, magic spells, and thousands of people moving around in this world all at the same time! And there was no lag! I decided to try looking at the recommended or "optimal" requirments and they were simply:
  • 200 mhz
  • 64 megs of ram
  • a 3d card
    • what kind of requirements are these? They're low as hell! How was this done! How could the game code possibly be optimised to the point where their is no lag with several hundred people in the same, huge area of a 3d world with these requirements!? "Remember, I'm the monkey, and you're the cheese grater. So no messing around." -Grand Theft Auto, London "It's not whether I win or lose, as long as I piss you off" -Morrigan, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Edited by - psychoprog on 5/1/00 6:50:34 AM
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    Etnu
    Etnu
    My guess is that the programmers at Sony are just damn good.
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    SHilbert
    SHilbert
    I think it''s very careful to limit how much work is done by your computer... i.e. the code ignores anyone/anywhere past a given distance from the player, so not as much must be updated every frame.

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    PsYcHoPrOg
    PsYcHoPrOg
    No game, eh? Well, it just so happens that I have tried Q3A over the net, and there is basically no lag. However, if I were holding a shotgun and fired it, the shot wouldn''t be taken until about 2 seconds later. And, I''m using a 56k modem.

    You see, this is why I''m getting DSL. And Age of Kings also seems to lag a lot over Modem DirectPlay.

    "Remember, I'm the monkey, and you're the cheese grater. So no messing around."
    -Grand Theft Auto, London

    "It's not whether I win or lose, as long as I piss you off"
    -Morrigan, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
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    Fredric
    Fredric
    Okay, can any of you tell me, after you look at my specs below, why EQ might play so damned lousy?

    Pentium II 400
    16mb RIVA TNT
    128 RAM
    Cable Modem

    EQ plays like CRAP on the machine... should it be like that when I have specs that go far beyond the requirements?


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    felisandria
    felisandria
    Moving to lounge...
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    PsYcHoPrOg
    PsYcHoPrOg
    Felis, what exactly does "moving to lounge...." supposed to mean?

    Anyway, when I played, I was playing with:


  • 550 Mhz

  • 32 MB Diamond Viper

  • 128 MB Ram

  • Piece of Sh*t 56k Modem



    • I'm getting DSL soon anyway. So I won't have to worry about my ping being high!

    "Remember, I'm the monkey, and you're the cheese grater. So no messing around."
    -Grand Theft Auto, London

    "It's not whether I win or lose, as long as I piss you off"
    -Morrigan, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo


    Edited by - PsYcHoPrOg on 5/2/00 3:50:22 PM
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    felisandria
    felisandria
    Psycho:

    Somebody got upset about me not saying something when I moved his post, so I said something this time. This was in the General and Games Programming forum. I moved it here.

    -fel
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