Quote Originally Posted by mikecoby View Post
You bet it did. So much so that it needed about a GTX460 to run good. A potted plant in 1.0 took up the same amount of memory characters do now in 2.0. The game was beautiful with inertia which really added to the immersion. Servers ended up not being able to handle it when large amounts of players we're on or close together.
I think that had more to do with lack of optimization than anything else. My PC is pretty beefy and I still had some issues with 1.0 back then when I really shouldn't have. I still think ARR looks really good though. It's just the armor looks flat to me. It doesn't....pop? I guess that would be the word to use.