Post#2 » Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:31 pm
[1. Software] The biggest upgrade you can make will be software-wise, and that's staying away from Titanium if you're still using it. That alone will speed up load times, and decrease RAM usage.
[2. Software] The next big upgrade is allowing the FPS plugin (MQ2FPS.dll) from MQ2 to manage each client's frames per second.
[3. Software] In-game settings. Turning off new models, spell effects, clip plane, and dynamic lighting can go a long way towards getting more clients to run smoothly on the hardware you currently have.
[4. Hardware] RAM. If you max out settings (Underfoot client), budget 1GB per character. If you minimize settings, budget around 500MB per character.
[5. Hardware] Video card. I recommend a dedicated one with a minimum of 1GB video ram, more depending upon the setting you use in game.
[6. Hardware] Processor.
[7. Hardware] SSD (solid state drive). I love mine, but I have to admit that once the client gets loaded in to RAM when you start up the client, there's not too much use for the SSD after that. So for gaming, an SSD is nice but not a big difference. For nearly everything else you can do on your computer, an SSD is pretty amazing.
[8. Internet] If you're playing on a slow connection with bad latency, that's never fun. In fact, if you are, then I'd put internet way higher up on this list. But for someone with a 10megabit connection, you probably won't see much, if any, improvement with more speed.
Zoning times are generally determined by how much 'stuff' your character has saved about them. More items, augs, aa's, flags - more loading time. Making lvl 1 noobs is a treat with how much faster they zone =)
