Is most of FFXIV's failings due to their choice of engine?

Yeah, definitely. (well, engine problems and server interaction problems) It runs like FFXI, which ran like Everquest.

Modern games are meant to be dynamic and exciting with smooth, responsive gameplay, like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9aBo...eature=related

FFXIV clearly fails in this regard. I will never pay money again for a lethargic game where actions take several seconds to go off.

Have you actually read anything technical about DX11 or even 10.1? They cleaned up the rendering path and allow you to do alot more in a single pass that previously required multiple passes, it also has better multithreading. Theres a reason every game thats been ported to DX11 runs faster without the extra eye candy they try to throw on top.

In before fanboys who hate other MMOs.

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Originally Posted by Dizmo

Yeah, definitely. It runs like FFXI, which ran like Everquest.

Modern games are meant to be dynamic and exciting with smooth, responsive gameplay, like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9aBo...eature=related

FFXIV clearly fails in this regard. I will never pay money again for a lethargic game where actions take several seconds to go off.

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Originally Posted by Tiraelina

Have you actually read anything technical about DX11 or even 10.1? They cleaned up the rendering path and allow you to do alot more in a single pass that previously required multiple passes, it also has better multithreading. Theres a reason every game thats been ported to DX11 runs faster without the extra eye candy they try to throw on top.

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Of course I have. But at the end benchmarks have the last word.

So you found benchmarks that test highest settings on DX9 against (different) highest settings on DX11? That would be why you don't see any difference. I'm not talking about adding the new performance costly features.

Try looking at a 1:1 port to DX11 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,2793-7.html

Now find some games that were not DX8, that were not ported almost 10 years after release for the only sake of optimization.

Check out benchmarks of bioshock or crysis in dx9 vs dx10 performance and you'll understand what I mean.

It's not that I don't want DX11, just that the idea that replacing DX9 calls with DX11 calls will boost performance by 30% is retarded, if you are gonna be asking for DX11 at least be aware that it would take a huge amount of work for the engine team.

They could optimize the current DX9 engine to acceptable levels for a small fraction of that effort.

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Originally Posted by Tiraelina

So you found benchmarks that test highest settings on DX9 against (different) highest settings on DX11? That would be why you don't see any difference. I'm not talking about adding the new performance costly features.

Try looking at a 1:1 port to DX11 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,2793-7.html

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