Jerrysn
10-20-2003, 02:21 AM
1st random thought:
Holy crap have PCs come a long way that past couple of years!
OK so I've spent the last couple of weeks upgrading and reloading my PC, in part because I want to run EQEmu. hehe hard to find spare time with a 4 month old. Cost me about $200 to do this (had Win XP laying around).
Went from:
Pentium 2 @ 450 MHZ (overclocked), 384 MRAM, 10Gig ATA66 running Win98(SE)
To:
Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz, 576 MRAM, 60Gig ATA100 running WinXP.
Most noticable results:
1) Boots up under 30 seconds.
2) It used to take about 7 minutes to copy my EQLive directory - now it takes 55 seconds!
3) Same dial-modem used to average 4.7KBPS - New average is 5.5KBPS - again - no hardware change.
Going to try EQEmu again this evening - wish me luck!
2nd Random thought:
If my thinking is correct , the only major thing EQEmu is 'borrowing' is the 3d rendering engine.
So would it be all that tough for a bunch of geeks to get together to write an engine and make the content?
-Jerry
Holy crap have PCs come a long way that past couple of years!
OK so I've spent the last couple of weeks upgrading and reloading my PC, in part because I want to run EQEmu. hehe hard to find spare time with a 4 month old. Cost me about $200 to do this (had Win XP laying around).
Went from:
Pentium 2 @ 450 MHZ (overclocked), 384 MRAM, 10Gig ATA66 running Win98(SE)
To:
Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz, 576 MRAM, 60Gig ATA100 running WinXP.
Most noticable results:
1) Boots up under 30 seconds.
2) It used to take about 7 minutes to copy my EQLive directory - now it takes 55 seconds!
3) Same dial-modem used to average 4.7KBPS - New average is 5.5KBPS - again - no hardware change.
Going to try EQEmu again this evening - wish me luck!
2nd Random thought:
If my thinking is correct , the only major thing EQEmu is 'borrowing' is the 3d rendering engine.
So would it be all that tough for a bunch of geeks to get together to write an engine and make the content?
-Jerry