Haven't read any of the previous posts. simply saw your question and thought i would add my 2cp for ya.
First and formost - Sony does not support ATI cards. Plan... simple... period. They say they do for drivers 5.2 but those are over a year old. If you want to avoid any and all headaches, stay with NVidia since that is who SoE is in bed with.
Next, i noticed you said you have 1.4gb of ram... bump it to 2gig. I have 2 gig and a 256 ATI 9800 pro and i run max res for everything, all the time except during a raid. 2gig of ram will let your game load faster in every respect. I also have an athlon 3000+ (400MHz). EQ2 is VERY processor intensive. If you want to see in game performance increase, a new card and ram will helpa little but getting a higher end processor will help the most. that's only reason i cant run max on everything for raids... my processor just cant keep up with all of the information it is trying to crunch at once. EQ2 simply is one of those games that requires all the parts to work harmoniously and all be equally upgraded to enjoy every feature. Going hardcore high end on a video card and neglecting system ram or processing power simply is not the answer. Nor is loading up on system memory and nglecting your video card and proc... and same for going heavy horse power processor and having minimal ram. I realize much of that may seem like common sense and many are thinking "No $#!7 sherlock..." but some are under the illusion that getting the biggest, newest, bestest-est-est video card with 5gb of memory will fix everything. no. wrong. sorry. thanks for playing.
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