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Originally Posted by kcxiv
i have been knocked of my horse. The "chunking" for me lasts between 3-10 seconds. Then again, i have a piece of shit computer.

To me gamebreaking is where there is something that prevents me from playing. I know some people are having problems with certain video cards where they crash all the time. That could be game breaking. For me on my pos ati1600 pro it doesn't happen. /shrug.

I realize that there are some issues with some video cards that need to be addressed, but I also know that, for example, the machine I play on has an ati X1950 with 512megs of RAM and I can play for hours and hours with no CTD, fast chunking, etc. So as faster PCs become available as well as faster video cards with more RAM, these issues should fade into the past. And the prices for this equipment continue to drop as well.

Again, this comes from our philosophy of planning ahead for the future, being able to do more and more cool things with the world, making sure the game world becomes more and more interesting, and taking advantage of newer technology without having to re-architect fundamental parts of the engine, take advantage of new tech and make not only new areas of the world look current and take advantage of this upcoming tech, but also allow us to do relatively minimal work to keep the existing 'old world' looking up to date as well so we don't have a situation like in EQ 1, where the newer expansion areas made the old world look more and more dated as we took advantage of new tech and faster machines and graphics cards.

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