Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Alpha test now accepting applications

Local Area Connection Status: 100 Mbps ( Check) ( Yeah I just checked lol)
Cable type ( Fiber Optic) X >.<

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Originally Posted by Grey_Cain

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

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Sadly, NA (and EU too probably) are still lower in average speed compared to some other countries, like Japan -- chances are they just C/P all the info between languages, since iirc the average is about 45Mbps in the US, people have faster plans but a lot have significantly less.

100Mbps is just likely to state you need a good solid connection.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Sadly, NA (and EU too probably) are still lower in average speed compared to some other countries, like Japan -- chances are they just C/P all the info between languages, since iirc the average is about 45Mbps in the US, people have faster plans but a lot have significantly less.

100Mbps is just likely to state you need a good solid connection.

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... Oh god
Oh good god, really? Really?
Now I feel awful, the best plans in brazil cap at 10 MBps :(

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Originally Posted by Skies

... Oh god
Oh good god, really? Really?
Now I feel awful, the best plans in brazil cap at 10 MBps :(

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Hoo, ouch! That hurts. >_< My condolences.

I can at least get up to 100 Mbps where I am if I switch to cable and pay $150/month.

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Originally Posted by Grey_Cain

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

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Don't be ridiculous. The recommended specs are stupid and misleading and can only lead to confusions like what you have. For starters, no online game ever (except cloud games) should take you more than 1.5 Mbps 512k upload of your bandwidth for gameplay.

Provided you are not planning to play the alpha on a dialup connection, your experience in the game will not improve just because you have fiber optics.

To anyone who put anything other that "I want to make A Realm Reborn better" as their reason: this Alpha probably isn't for you.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

Go my Nvidia Geforce GTX 660ti! Go! :D Show these gamers what a powerhouse you are on my 3rd gen intel core i7 2600k and Direct X 11 Capabilities!!

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Sorry to burst your bubble but the i7 2600k is 2nd gen Intel not 3rd, Ivy bridge is 3rd gen, Sandy bridge is 2nd gen.

On that note though my OC'd 7950HD and i5 2500k are ready.

For the 100Mbps fiber recommend requirement that's really to cover themselves if they say recommend 25Mbps ADSL people with 100Mbps fiber would complain at every disconnect, also there should be 0 server lag (except what you would expect over the internet) any broadband connection should be fine.

nah 2Mbps is all you need to play any Online Game whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

nah 2Mbps is all you need to play any Online Game whatsoever.

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Even 2 Mbps is overkill, the game only sends/recieves like 5-20 bytes a second so dialup is capable tbh

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

nah 2Mbps is all you need to play any Online Game whatsoever.

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Maybe if you only have one person using that connection, but I can't tell you how many times I see team mates that DC because one of their room mates or family members suddenly starts hogging their bandwidth. Isn't it better to have the extra headroom just in case? I for one have to support 4 computers plus 6 devices and make sure that a sudden spike in bandwidth usage from any of them doesn't impact my game usage.

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Originally Posted by Fear

Even 2 Mbps is overkill, the game only sends/recieves like 5-20 bytes a second so dialup is capable tbh

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Dialup doesn't work, I have tried to play on a GPRS connection before now which is as close as you can get to dialup speeds, I logged on to my character in a black void, no maps loaded (which was weird because the maps are stored locally) but yeah it really doesn't use much data so any broadband connection is good.

A 3g connection is also good, in fact on my 3g connection I seem to dc a lot less than other people in my LS which I do not understand.

It could be worse, almost everywhere in china except shanghai your average ISP only gives you 1-4 MB down speed, and thats not stable either it cuts out all the time. Only place to have stable there like we do at home is in a corporate offices lol.

Oh yea, they share internet to all the residents in the building there too, like a campus internet does but its their whole country almost lol

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Originally Posted by UnrealTai

Only place to have stable there like we do at home is in a corporate offices lol.

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Maybe include prisons as stable ISP locations?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/22871..._warcraft.html

Yeah a 100Mbps conneciton is not even available anywhere close to where I live. They just started to roll out 30Mbps in my area, which I of jumped on right away.

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Originally Posted by Grey_Cain

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

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You don't need this for the game... why are they even asking this?

Don't even need the minimum speed either. I have like the crappiest isp in the world (Verizon) running at about 700kbps download and I am fine.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

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Originally Posted by Levian

Not like they only want to test things for high end computers. They'll need folks on the low end as well. Probably more so to be honest. There aren't that many people with super high end custom built gaming rigs. The majority of people are just using mid level Best Buy rigs.

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They don't care. Right now the alpha looks more demanding than the current game anyway.

I think it'll be 1.0 all over again.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

They don't care. Right now the alpha looks more demanding than the current game anyway.

I think it'll be 1.0 all over again.

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It's really not -- If they optimized well it's actually less demanding with the same specs.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

You don't need this for the game... why are they even asking this?

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I was just joking about how their specs jump from 1.5 Mbps minimum to 100 Mbps recommended.

Really though, I think the recommended stuff is probably what you need to have everything loaded max graphics settings with no slowdown or stuttering (well, even that's probably optimistic since the network connection is the only super-high recommendation).

But a steady 1.5 Mbps connection that maintains a strong data stream can outdo a 100 Mbps connection that drops packages frequently. I used to have the issue that if my roommate was running torrents I wasn't able to stream video because it cut out so much, and the fix was in the settings, not the connection speed.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

It's really not -- If they optimized well it's actually less demanding with the same specs.

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The current engine is well optimized. It's still highly demanding though. Will ARR still terminate if you ALT-TAB during full screen? Probably yes. Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful. SE doesn't do PC games. They focus on consoles, where you don't have to worry about users with very different hardware configurations.

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

The current engine is well optimized. It's still highly demanding though. Will ARR still terminate if you ALT-TAB during full screen? Probably yes. Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful. SE doesn't do PC games. They focus on consoles, where you don't have to worry about users with very different hardware configurations.

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

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It has been announced many times by Yoshida its a completly new engine, and SE do make PC games here's some off Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...ds=square+enix

It will not be silly not to use Crystal tools for FFXIV because its used for all FFXIII games so their hard work is still going to be used, it was however not optimal for MMOs which is why it performs very poorly here, they have made a new engine designed entirely for MMOs and can scale very well to different devices it can theoretically even run on a PS Vita.

Know the facts before you post especially things that have been officially announced many times in interviews and directly to the community.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

The current engine is well optimized. It's still highly demanding though. Will ARR still terminate if you ALT-TAB during full screen? Probably yes. Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful. SE doesn't do PC games. They focus on consoles, where you don't have to worry about users with very different hardware configurations.

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

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The current engine is not optimized...

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Originally Posted by Laraul

The current engine is well optimized.

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No it really isn't.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

It's still highly demanding though.

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That's because it isn't optimized.

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Originally Posted by Yucie

The current engine is not optimized...

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It is........ For PS3 and Xbox, and single player games, FFXIII and FFXIII-2 perform really well.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

It is........ For PS3 and Xbox, and single player games, FFXIII and FFXIII-2 perform really well.

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We're not talking about those now, are we? Didn't think so.

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Originally Posted by Yucie

We're not talking about those now, are we? Didn't think so.

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The engine isn't optimized for MMOs, which SE themselves have stated numerous times.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

The current engine is well optimized. It's still highly demanding though. Will ARR still terminate if you ALT-TAB during full screen? Probably yes. Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful. SE doesn't do PC games. They focus on consoles, where you don't have to worry about users with very different hardware configurations.

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

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WTF?
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Originally Posted by Laraul

Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful.

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It was confirmed that you can do this in ARR.

The current game is not well optimized for PC . . . a well optimized game wouldn't have you changing simple graphics options such as resolution with the game closed only, or shut down when you alt-tab when in fullscreen . . .

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Originally Posted by Laraul

The current engine is well optimized. It's still highly demanding though. Will ARR still terminate if you ALT-TAB during full screen? Probably yes. Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful. SE doesn't do PC games. They focus on consoles, where you don't have to worry about users with very different hardware configurations.

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

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Learn to read the interviews/

Yoshi has said many times ALT + TAB WILL work without crashing the client, and he's also said many times users will be able to customize pretty much all settings inside the game so it plays well on most systems.

And Do you even know WTF your talking about? The new engine is nothing like the crystal tools engine, it's the reason we're getting a new one.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

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Except they aknowledged the fact the engine is not fit for a MMO themselves... so it would actually be silly to go ahead and continue using it.

They also said that the new engine is based on luminous. The other parts of your post was commented on by other people already, and they are right. After YoshiP promising us all of the things, they better be in the client at release. Better yet, in alpha

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Originally Posted by Andrien

Can anyone compare for me?

Geforce 8800 Vs Geforce GT 130M

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The GeForce 8800 or the 8000 series are EXTREMELY faulty. They only have a life of 6 months before they die. That's what happened with my 8600M GT. It caused the motherboard to fry 4 times and Best Buy's Geek Squad (lol) kept trying to replace the motherboard each time. It's one of THE WORST GeForce series to own.

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Originally Posted by Grey_Cain

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

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no matter what your speed is SE servers are only going to average out there connection so you will be getting way lower connection to the game. were talking like 10-100kbps

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Originally Posted by indira

no matter what your speed is SE servers are only going to average out there connection so you will be getting way lower connection to the game. were talking like 10-100kbps

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You sure about that number?

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

You sure about that number?

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uploading pic.

30Mbps cable connection
one hour of FFXIV running around. green is the in & out yellow are packets
youtube is the spike on the right.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8447/7...b45c05e5_z.jpg

http://i48.tinypic.com/r74y1z.jpg

This is my connection currently.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

This is my connection currently.

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That the speed of your computer's NIC for your LAN. Not the speed of your WAN connection back to your provider.

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Originally Posted by rubina

That the speed of your computer's NIC for your LAN. Not the speed of your WAN connection back to your provider.

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I see, How can I test that?