Hardware Specs for SE demo machine

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06-20-2011, 11:08 AM
Linkurrra

Hardware Specs for SE demo machine

I was hoping to get a response from a developer about releasing the hardware specs for the PC that was used to show demo videos of the game?

I know these PC's are designed to work best with FFXIV for marketing reasons. And I think the community would love to know for a baseline for performance what this PC's hardware specs are!

I can understand the reasoning for keeping this a secret at launch, however now it would be very informational for the community to know these specs. or even recommended settings to use for these demo videos.

We would appreciate your time in answering this quesion,

Thanks and keep up the hard work!
06-20-2011, 10:13 PM
Cutriss

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

I can understand the reasoning for keeping this a secret at launch, however now it would be very informational for the community to know these specs. or even recommended settings to use for these demo videos.

...I can't think of any reason for keeping that secret at all.
06-21-2011, 12:33 AM
Shyd

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...vi/envi01.html
06-21-2011, 02:21 AM
Coldfire

Just posting the official requirements is not helping much <.<
06-21-2011, 02:24 AM
_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

Wonder why they recommend 4 GB when FFXIV only uses 2 GB.
06-21-2011, 02:55 AM
Loth

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Originally Posted by _C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

Wonder why they recommend 4 GB when FFXIV only uses 2 GB.

Maybe so that the OS and other applications like antivirus, and whatever else people have running, does not hinder the game in relation to memory usage.
06-21-2011, 03:01 AM
_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

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Originally Posted by Loth

Maybe so that the OS and other applications like antivirus, and whatever else people have running, does not hinder the game in relation to memory usage.

Of course not. The game hinders itself. Read the link.
06-21-2011, 09:28 AM
Linkurrra

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Originally Posted by Shyd

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...vi/envi01.html

ah well, I knew about the minimum and Recommended settings. However the recommended in game settings are new.

My intent was to get a baseline for what the developer uses to demo the game. This machine has to be optimized and configured to display the best the game can be. Therefore, it would give us a goal to upgrade our machines to, match or surpass.

My main query is if my processor isn't powerful enough. It runs smoothly till alot of things are going on at once.

As for keeping it a secret, it would be for marketing reasons so they wouldn't scare away ppl interested in the game because they are rather high. Seems kinda silly now when the game runs poorly and no real way to turn down the graphics to get higher framerates.

There is something wrong if in towns I can turn the settings to the lowest settings and still only get 10fps in all the Adventurer guilds? WTF? seriously! I can't even see my character because it's so pixelated and yet it preforms the same. No wonder ppl think this game terrible when the very first place they start out in makes the game run like crap :P Beautiful, but it stutters and is hardly enjoyable :P
06-21-2011, 09:30 AM
_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

ah well, I knew about the minimum and Recommended settings. However the recommended in game settings are new.

My intent was to get a baseline for what the developer uses to demo the game. This machine has to be optimized and configured to display the best the game can be. Therefore, it would give us a goal to upgrade our machines to, match or surpass.

My main query is if my processor isn't powerful enough. It runs smoothly till alot of things are going on at once.

As for keeping it a secret, it would be for marketing reasons so they wouldn't scare away ppl interested in the game because they are rather high. Seems kinda silly now when the game runs poorly and no real way to turn down the graphics to get higher framerates.

There is something wrong if in towns I can turn the settings to the lowest settings and still only get 10fps in all the Adventurer guilds? WTF? seriously! I can't even see my character because it's so pixelated and yet it preforms the same. No wonder ppl think this game terrible when the very first place they start out in makes the game run like crap :P Beautiful, but it stutters and is hardly enjoyable :P

Your hardware doesn't really matter right now. The game is terribly optimized.
06-21-2011, 10:04 AM
Loth

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Originally Posted by _C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

Of course not. The game hinders itself. Read the link.

I have read the link, and see nothing special about memory related errors there.

If they did not cap it at 1.8 GB the game would crash, as it is limited by not being large address aware.
06-21-2011, 10:07 AM
Eldaena

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Originally Posted by _C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

Your hardware doesn't really matter right now. The game is terribly optimized.

I'm not sure your point? Even if that was the case (it being terribly optimized) why wouldn't we want to know what the specs were for their demos? How were they 'optimally' running a poorly 'optimized' game?
06-21-2011, 11:23 AM
Coldfire

Like most games with high memory usage FFXIV most likely catches OutOfMemory-Exceptions and unloads the least used content. It's okay to prevent using the pagefile but its not smart to limit the memory usage to a certain size. 1.8GB is just not enough for this game.
06-21-2011, 11:51 AM
_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_

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Originally Posted by Eldaena

I'm not sure your point? Even if that was the case (it being terribly optimized) why wouldn't we want to know what the specs were for their demos? How were they 'optimally' running a poorly 'optimized' game?

Your question:

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Originally Posted by Coldfire

Like most games with high memory usage FFXIV most likely catches OutOfMemory-Exceptions and unloads the least used content. It's okay to prevent using the pagefile but its not smart to limit the memory usage to a certain size. 1.8GB is just not enough for this game.

The answer.

I'm curious what they did for their demos too, but I have a strong suspicion that what they showed off was running a custom client specifically tweaked for those demos.