The game's running a bit jerky for me at the moment and was wondering if anyone could help ?
System is as follows:
Manufacturer Acer
Model Aspire X3810
Total amount of system memory 7.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4
Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 582 GB
Disk partition (C:) 205 GB Free (291 GB Total)
Disk partition (D:) 165 GB Free (291 GB Total)
Media drive (E:) CD/DVD
Graphics
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Display adapter type Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset
Total available graphics memory 1326 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 64 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1262 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.15.10.2302
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
DirectX version DirectX 10
Any help would be great :) :)
Need help with Graphics Settings
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03-08-2012, 05:12 AMAcSephVIINeed help with Graphics Settings
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03-08-2012, 05:35 AMREDace0
How are you even running it on an Intel chipset? My Alienware M11x simply will not run the main client unless the Nvidia GPU is on.
According to this spec sheet it should have a GeForce 9200. -
03-08-2012, 06:32 AMAcSephVIII guess by this reaction I shouldn't even be able to load the game ? hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by REDace0
I actually work for a IT re-seller so Will look at speccing up another computer.
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03-08-2012, 07:03 AMREDace0
Hey, if it's running it's running. I know a few generic tips to speed up performance.
Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field should be off.
Turn Shadows off in-game and reduce their detail to Lowest in the config.
Play fullscreen. If you need a web browser for stuff and don't have another PC, launch FFXIV via Steam so you get the Steam Overlay, which has a basic web browser in it.
Find ffxivgame.exe in your FFXIV install directory. Right-click, select Properties, select Compatibility. Set it do disable themes and possibly run in 640x480. This won't make the game run at 640x480, but will reduce the resources spent on the Windows desktop while the game is running.
As to hardware, I can only provide information on my own specs. I'm running FFXIV just fine in a 1920x1200 borderless window with the following settings on a Radeon HD5770.
2xMSAA
8 General Drawing
5 Background Drawing
Standard Shadows
Standard Textures
Standard Texture Filtering
No Ambient Occlusion
No Depth of Field -
03-08-2012, 09:45 AMColdfire
Didn't AMD release the HD7850 recently? Might be worth checking out if you're a gamer. The drivers might cause problems though since it's so new.
As for the other stuff:
-4GB RAM is more than enough
-any quadcore x86 CPU should work
-a fast HDD/SSD can remove the stuttering when stuff loads.
Settings are usually:
-2x or 4xMSAA
-8 General Drawing (9 and 10 are supersampling)
-5 Background Drawing (just increases the background resolution, can be maxed for fast GPUs)
-Shadows to lowest and disable ingame (they look horrible anyway)
-Textures and filtering to max
-Ambient occlusion off (is broken and driver profiles seem to disable it anyway)
-Depth of Field really just depends if the user likes blurry stuff, the hit on performance is about 5-10%
I would always try to run the game in the screen's native resolution as this prevents qualitiy loss that comes with resizing to fit the pixels. -
03-08-2012, 11:44 AMwolfsspirit
Should run fairly well.
I am running on an AGP card HD3850 ATI on medium/high settings without problems
2 gig system memory ddr1 and a quadcore processor.
Just gotto adjust some settings like above what he said :
ambient oclussion /dept of field and shodows off and dont run on max resolution
Main problem is the HD stuttering.. i got a fast HD.. but its realy bad the loading in game and the prices for an SSD are rediculous.
I am thinking of putting on a raid on my ancient 2 non sata ports lol since sata doesnt make the drives faster anyway -
03-08-2012, 11:47 AMZenakuya my GF have the 3870 run everything on med/high without issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfsspirit
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03-08-2012, 03:38 PMColdfire
An SSD is actually almost affordable now with the magnetic HDD price explosion. I'd say 140 bucks for 120GB with the speed of 4-5 regular HDDs is pretty much worth it. The controllers all suck though. I wish they delivered them as pure flash memory and let the CPU handle the FS.
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03-08-2012, 08:01 PMwolfsspirit
120 gig for 140 bucks.. i can buy almost 2 - 2TB hdd drives for that.
120 gig will be filled within a week..so its a waste of money.. ill consider it if they come out with 500 + gig ssd's for the same price as HD's
SSD is still very expensive compared to HD
Not realy planning to buy an SSD for just 1 game , not to mention i do not have the free slot to attach it to my system :) , already had to add an interface sata card to attach all drives lol ( and have no space left for my dvd drive) -
03-08-2012, 10:48 PMAcSephVII
I've been offerered a solution at work just pricing it up,
Intel Core i7 860 2.80 GHZ *Quad Core with HT and 8MB Cache
6 GB DDR3 system Ram
1*TB Hard Disk Drive1GB ATI* HD Radeon 5570 DVI, VGA and HDMI out
Dual Layer DVD R/W Drive
2 Hot swappable RAID Hard Disk bays( Both have a 160GB hard drive included each)
Multi Card Reader
10 USB ports (6 rear, 4 fornt)
10/100/1000 on board Network card
Wifi Card
1 E Sata port
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit with*coa License( Upgraded to Win 7 Ultimate)
Comes complete with Keyboard, mouse, power cable
Would this run it ? -
03-09-2012, 12:29 AMLaraul
Yes it should...
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03-09-2012, 12:33 AMLaraulAre you able to upgrade to 4GB of system RAM? That has will likely reduce the amount of HDD swapping.Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfsspirit
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03-09-2012, 05:54 AMColdfire
The GPU might be a bit slow but it should be able to run the game at least. Gamers should aim for something with a 7 or 8 as the 2nd digit like HD5850. Those go from 100-230 bucks and need an extra power connector so I would double check the PSU before buying one.
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03-09-2012, 05:59 AMwolfsspirit
win7 64 bit
playing ffxiv .. FF only uses 500 mb memory , whats the use of having 4 gig if it wont use more as half a gig anyway
all the time i play ffxiv on win7 , my memory usage does not come above 1.2 gig
maybe because i play windowed i dont know.. cant play full screen because within a hour the game exe will crash
by the way my old 650PSu gave up and now i am using the standard 300W psu wich seems to be more as enough and yes i need an external powerconnector too on my graphic card -
03-09-2012, 06:51 AMColdfire
FFXIV will never use more than 512MB RAM with the current client. PS3-limitations... seriously ;)
More RAM doesn't help at all in this game. Got a laptop with 4GB and a desktop with 8GB and there's absolutely no advantage. They didn't even set large address awareness. Imo games shouldn't unload anything unless they get out-off-memory errors. Would be nice if the user could define the maximum memory usage before stuff is unloaded. Async prefetch would also be nice to have. Hopefully 2.0 will have that or it will be a stuttering failure too. -
03-09-2012, 06:55 AMwolfsspirit
<< considering a ramdrive when i build my new system.. if its not using any memory at all .. you could as well use the remaining ram to create a virtual ram-HD and have ultra fast speed loading and times
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03-09-2012, 07:10 AMColdfireYou will need at least 16GB then :PQuote:
Originally Posted by wolfsspirit
Might as well get some PCIe flash memory or an SSD. -
03-09-2012, 08:32 AMwolfsspirit
memory is cheaper :P besides it will come in handy playing other games offline
sdd is slower as normal ddr3 memory too :) only drawback is if your get a system crash.. all in memory is lost lol unless you autobackup memory every now and then to hd
the new mainboards support up to 128 memory , i think 32 gig will be great and not expensive at all.
The only drawback is you need to load the total image of the game in memory each system (re)start.. then again i mostly use Hybernate so its a lot faster -
03-09-2012, 06:35 PMColdfire
4GB is like 30 bucks... means 32GB is 240 bucks <.<
I'd say a 120GB SSD for 140 bucks is less pricey :P -
03-12-2012, 09:24 AMLaraulYeah I got enough of your "must have SSD to play game stuff..." You kept contradicting me in this thread. Of course I never asked you too try downloading the RAMmap utility which shows "file data in RAM by file." I assume you haven't done this. You said..Quote:
Originally Posted by Coldfire
I do not want an argument but you are being unrealistic and assume that the way you've done it is the only way. I thought I should point out no PS3 version presently exists so your "PS3 limitations" argument is nonsense. You could say "PS1 limitations" too and it would carry about the same amount of weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coldfire
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03-12-2012, 10:33 AMColdfire
Did you take any drugs by chance or drink too much beer? It's rather sad to rant on a support forum like you currently do. Raging won't make the things you say right.
PS3-limitations is pretty valid 'cause this game uses an engine that was designed for the PS3 and the developers keep that in mind when they add stuff or alter the engine. It is supposed to be released on PS3 after all but I guess you totally didn't know that, right?
I don't see where I say SSD is a must. Stop whining and raging and let people that can actually argue without starting to cry and flame do the talk.
Also I tried that RAMMap utility long ago. It kept like 5% of the ffxiv files in my 8GB memory. They got replaced as soon as I started a different game. What you're trying to say is that RAM is the ultimate solution to every slow loading HDD which is just wrong. The data won't magically find it's way into your RAM. It has to be loaded and this causes stuttering. And even then when it's in your RAM it gets unloaded quickly since it's not used often. -
03-13-2012, 05:47 AMninesunz
I have a raptor 10k hdd
my friend has a ssd
ssd > hdd for ffxiv, even on raptor it stutters for me...i hate my friend. -
03-13-2012, 09:00 AMColdfireAin't those pretty noisy? I'm thinking of removing all normal HDDs from my machine to put them in a NAS in a different room xDQuote:
Originally Posted by ninesunz