Era Accuracy - Lag is Missing

[Yew]

I remember when I played T2A originally I played using a 14k dial up modem, as did many others. Please reinstate the players running around frozen in position for several seconds at a time... oh, and link deaths... I miss those.

Forget the housing issues, the pk issues, ghosting, blahzay-blah....

Give me some lag!


...although seriously, I think the team running this shard does an amazing job... there are players that are helpful, and players that are irritating- just like I remember in 1999.

Thanks for all your hard work.

[xevec]

You can go back to dial up. Oh and play on a Win 95 or 98 machine with like 32 Megs of ram. That might fix your problems

[Yew]

95 or 98? Too fancy... I like 3.1, and that even comes with it's own key recorder... who needs Razer...

[Joueur Moyen]

I had a 52k hardware modem, so I was pretty fast, and an overclocked 800 MHz T-bird. I think I started on a Pentium 233 MHz box, and that had a crappy software modem. I used that box and Netzero to dual client once I upgraded.

EZ Macros ftw.

[nightshark]

i played on a pentium 166 and 56k until about a year after UO:R. there wasn't anyone on oceania i couldn't fight with that bad boy set up.

during 1999 my lag was godawful though, shitty new zealand internet is always 5 years behind.

[Drunk Monk]

I don't think I can minimize and "right click refresh, right click refresh, right click refresh" as fast as I could back then. Man the lag and connection lost msg's used to make me so mad.

[SkunkDave]

Hilarious post. When cable internet started becoming available they would outrun me... myself mounted and them on foot.

I think I had a Pentium 122 with a 40mb hard drive? o.O

[nightshark]

Hilarious post. When cable internet started becoming available they would outrun me... myself mounted and them on foot.

I think I had a Pentium 122 with a 40mb hard drive? o.O

Considering UO takes a few hundred megs I doubt your HDD was that small

[Yew]

Here's the extremely high-end requirements to run Ultima Online (original release):

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM
Pentium 133MHz
16MB RAM
261MB Uncompressed Hard Drive Space
Slip/PPP or Direct Connect at 28.8Kbps With 32-bit TCP/IP Stack
1MB PCI Video Card, 16-bit Direct X Supported
4X CD-ROM Drive
16-bit Sound Card
DirectX
Microsoft Compatible Mouse
RECOMMENDED
Pentium 166MHz
32MB RAM
550MB Uncompressed Hard Drive Space
2MB PCI Video Card
8X CD-ROM Drive

[Biohazard]

i sported a dell 333mhz with a 1.2gb hd.. we threw in a 2.1gb for around like $200-300 at the time. I think i was blasting a crazy 64mb of ram. the vid card was a nvidia ti4600 i think

[Brules]

I started playing it on a Pentium 133 with 28.8 modem, rapidly upgraded to 36k then 56k......Next upgrade was a PII 450 Slocket with the 56k then finally got DSL at some point. Man....things have changed.

Looked something like this: