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Originally Posted by Utnayan Maybe someone can answer this for me, because I will admit I know nothing about programming. If Oblivion, which runs fantastic on my setup at the moment which is a 3200+, 1 gb ram, 6800 GT OC, at 1680X1050 on my Dell 20" widescreen with pretty high settings and HDR (A game which has a huge AI strain and rag doll physics - I tune down the shadows and draw distance a tad), why does a game like EQ2 or Vanguard, which subjectively for me has worse graphics even at full settings, run so shitty? |
I have a pretty similar system and the answer is that your video card is underpowered for the native resolution of your monitor and you only have 1GB of RAM. I don't recommend that anyone should buy a new video card (at least not an expensive one) this close to the release of DX10 hardware, but buying 2GB of RAM is a no-brainer. You can get a set of OCZ 2-3-2-5 2x1GB DIMMs for about $140 (after rebate) from newegg now.
I can't agree that Oblivion's graphics are better, at least not across-the-board better. They have a huge draw distance, but people call the terrain outside of the grids adjacent to you "pea soup" for a reason. You can mod in some larger textures to make the ugly effect mostly go away, but you'll take a large performance hit with only 1GB of RAM in that game then too.