Vista is very buggy with DX9c games ie; EQ2. You will encounter many "out of memory" errors at very random intervals while playing. It was so bad, that I dropped Vista, and reverted back to XP just to have stable play time. I warn against running Vista and EQ2. Safe alternative is hard drive swapping OS'es. Swap in XP for EQ2 (and other DX 9.0c games) and then swap hard drive Vista for other apps (non DX 9.0c stuff). Dual boot is also NOT recommended as when Windows update executes, it still "sees" both OS'es and attempts to update both despite which you told to load on boot. This causes MAJOR corruption and Drive errors. Trust me.. been there and done that!!!!! EQ2 forums also has many threads about Vista and out of memory errors in game.
Just my 2 cp. (Stay with XP for EQ2)
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