SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

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Trevius
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#11 » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:43 pm

The only EQEmu compatible SoD client was from Steam and is no longer available legally (it is now Underfoot on Steam). The only way to attain it now is via illegal downloads. The UF client is actually very close to SoD in comparison, but has an annoying flaw in that it is missing quite a few files in the base install from Steam. The good news is that you can use another install like Titanium (or even make a folder and patch it to EQLive with the free 30 day trial account you get with the Steam UF purchase), and copy the needed files to the Underfoot install folder from Steam and have a great client. More info on the missing files is listed in the EQEmu wiki.

ChaosSlayer wrote:-T is the most stable client, but of course missing significant amount of features that SoF/SoD have

-SoF development has been abandoned by EQ-emu pretty much when they got access to
SoD. Today its far less stable than both SoD and T

-SoD generally has better performance quality and works than T - ON MODERN PCs, but crawls like a turtle older PCs (probably due tons of new graphics that needs to loaded, compared to T). T runs fine on 512 MB, SoD needs at least 1gb


As already mentioned, SoD is definitely the most stable client by far, even over Titanium. On the SoD client, I have used it since I first started work on making it compatible with EQEmu and can count the unexplained crashes I have had on it with 1 hand (very very few crashes). I am sure if you are boxing multiple chars and zone them all at once, there is a chance to crash on SoD like any other client, but overall stability on SoD is very noticeable.

The SoF client is still very well supported, since most updates to later clients like SoD also apply to SoF. The problem with SoF is that the client itself has a couple of major stability flaws. One of the main flaws is that if you play in windowed mode, there is no way to prevent the window from being resized if you accidentally click the edge of the window, which often leads to a crash or at least a few seconds of screen lockup while it adjusts the size. It also just crashes randomly for unknown reasons.

The only thing that Titanium is better than SoD for is memory usage. If you have low RAM or box a ton of characters, then Titanium is probably your only choice. If you have decent RAM or don't box a ton of chars, SoD is by far the best choice. The list of added features from the SoD client is quite long and well worth it, not counting the new content possibilities it brings with it (5 years worth of expansions). The only other argument I see for Titanium is the item stats window as ChaosSlayer mentioned. It does take a bit of getting used to, but I find it to be quite a bit more organized than the old Titanium item stats window, and works nice for items with tons of stats and such.

Even though Titanium does use less memory, SoD basically has WinEQ functionality built into it, so as long as you have the memory for it, the performance for boxing is quite nice. It generally has much less issues running on newer systems than Titanium does. It supports multi-core CPUs, more resolutions, etc. I have some posts out there that give a fair number of the SoF and SoD features if you look for them.

TLDR Version: SoD is by far the best client :)

enneract
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#12 » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:57 pm

The biggest bug with SoD is the HP calculation. Which is fixable.

/poke

:D

Gytask
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#13 » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:04 pm


ChaosSlayer
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#14 » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:47 pm

legal - i guess so
but right version? - no guarantees

SoD versions released or updated past July 2010 - may or may work with each version having their own issues.
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enneract
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#15 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:53 am

One thing of note - friends lists do not function on SoD client, due to the lack of support for the universal chat service

Gytask
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#16 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:12 am

ChaosSlayer wrote:legal - i guess so
but right version? - no guarantees

SoD versions released or updated past July 2010 - may or may work with each version having their own issues.



shoot, i got so pumped up by the post and thought i finally get to ditch my titanium client. guess that's 20 bucks well spent hehe :P

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Deadset
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#17 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:30 am

Gytask wrote:
ChaosSlayer wrote:legal - i guess so
but right version? - no guarantees

SoD versions released or updated past July 2010 - may or may work with each version having their own issues.



shoot, i got so pumped up by the post and thought i finally get to ditch my titanium client. guess that's 20 bucks well spent hehe :P


So did this client work for you?
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Gytask
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#18 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:30 am

Deadset wrote:
Gytask wrote:
ChaosSlayer wrote:legal - i guess so
but right version? - no guarantees

SoD versions released or updated past July 2010 - may or may work with each version having their own issues.



shoot, i got so pumped up by the post and thought i finally get to ditch my titanium client. guess that's 20 bucks well spent hehe :P


So did this client work for you?


not at all. dont waste your money

BosCo
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#19 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:53 am

Umm i dont remember the site. but there is a site that you can go to to download the patch for sod so it will work for emu servers. I did a search on google, it has to do with finding out what SOD client you have then you download the Per Sony patch for it to work. More or less you are taking a Current copy of the SOD client and patching it with Sony's update from 08 09 depending on your client. I will see if i can find it and post it on here if no one else does
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Gytask
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Re: SoD vs. SoF vs. Titanium

Post#20 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:18 am

BosCo wrote:Umm i dont remember the site. but there is a site that you can go to to download the patch for sod so it will work for emu servers. I did a search on google, it has to do with finding out what SOD client you have then you download the Per Sony patch for it to work. More or less you are taking a Current copy of the SOD client and patching it with Sony's update from 08 09 depending on your client. I will see if i can find it and post it on here if no one else does


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