Video Showcase 7: Everfrost

The 7th installment in the video showcase, featuring Everfrost.

(I had actually planned on doing Everfrost since the very beginning, it just worked out nicely that I got around to it after they completed the revamp.)

WATCH IT IN HIGH-DEFINITION AT YOUTUBE

Low-def version:

Quote of the Day

There are eleventy-billion items coming with the expansion, I am sure there will be lots of mage phat lewtz.

- Dev Kander

Runnyeye Dungeon Crawl Video in High Def

I know you’ve all been waiting patiently for the next Video Showcase.  This time I switched it up and showed an actual gameplay session with a group.  And I chose everyone’s favorite dungeon, Runneye.

This video is in high def at the YouTube site itself!  GO WATCH IT THERE!

For those impatient here is the low def:

Oh Gurus of Vista 64 and All Lesser Things …

.. I have a question for you, out there!

I recently installed Vista 64 and a 9800 GT on a new dual-core system … EQ2 runs beautifully.  I don’t have any horror stories like some others.

I do have a couple strange issues, though.

FIRST ONE:

When I am running around, sometimes after a few minutes of non-stop movement, the screen will seem to “halt” or play catch-up … almost like something’s not in sync … one second it goes -real fast- the next second it slows down to what I would say is a “normal” pace.

From what I can tell, it isn’t related to framerate. I mean, it’s not the kind of stuttering you get when your system is chugging … it’s more like …

It’s more like something is trying to “throttle” the output, and not quite succeeding.

SECOND ISSUE:

I had previously enable anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering through the Nvidia control panel on my odl 7600GT .. however, now, even though I “force” it … it won’t appear in-game UNLESS I actually modify the EQ2_recent.ini file and add the lines /r_aa_blit 1  and   /r_af_blit_1   (I don’t know if that second one actually works but I thought I noticed AF working after I added that line … the aliasing one definitely works, though).

Is there some other thing I need to do in order NOT to have to enter those lines in and simply be able to enable it via hardware as I used to do, or are things just not going to work that way, anymore?    lol

Thanks

Please advise, if any of you know!

And yes, I have updated my drivers for both motherboard and graphics card, already.  (It’s the first thing people seem to assume.)