Tested/works with a low-end machine
I still have my original EqEmu machine which is a WinXP, pentium III 500 with 500meg of ram, 30 gig hard disk. I downloaded/installed the newest binaries (EQEmu-0.7.0-974) and my latest ax_peq with innoDB conversion and I used a MySql5x.
Also, I used a Titanium client off the same machine; logged in fine, played (just me alone), zoned with no problems. This should give you an idea of what can be done.
Only problem I had is, and I get with this with any machine I try; sometimes when I first try to use the minilogin, the client hangs: all I do is ctrl-alt-del to the windows task manager, kill the eqgame.exe and restart minilogin only. After that, it doesn't happen anymore.
But so you know, this xp machine is running as a "dedicated" machine. by this I mean i have no messengers, av's, or other programs polling in the background.
I'm also sure I have no spyware, malware, etc, running. I do not use new character models with my client (saves a lot of memory, and workload).
and finally I have run the system configuration utility (msconfig) and disabled everthing possible, so windows os demands little resources. If you follow back though my posts, you will see where i explained and posted links on how to do things like disable stuff in msconfig, or tweak your internet connection.
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