Think this hardware will run ARR smooth?

Heya guys.
I just bough a new computer friday, and since i'm kinda rusty on Hardware selection, a friend told me to buy this:

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX8120
RAM: KINGSTON 4GB/1600MHZ
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB SATA 3'5"
GPU: MSI GTX650 1GB DDR5 OC

This costed around 550€ which was what i had to spend on a new computer (was saving for PS3, but i'm pretty sure this is a better choice to play ARR hopefully).

Think this will suffice to run ARR smoothy almost at best resolutions? I been asking myself because their recommended specs are kinda high and since i cant run current version fully maxed out... :/

Might not run it at max settings smoothly, but it should do fine in general.

Don't guess. Wait until it comes out and see for yourself (if you've already bought it). If you haven't already bought it, just wait.

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Originally Posted by Tiago

Heya guys.
I just bough a new computer friday, and since i'm kinda rusty on Hardware selection, a friend told me to buy this:

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX8120
RAM: KINGSTON 4GB/1600MHZ
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB SATA 3'5"
GPU: MSI GTX650 1GB DDR5 OC

This costed around 550€ which was what i had to spend on a new computer (was saving for PS3, but i'm pretty sure this is a better choice to play ARR hopefully).

Think this will suffice to run ARR smoothy almost at best resolutions? I been asking myself because their recommended specs are kinda high and since i cant run current version fully maxed out... :/

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Yeah you should be fine no problem lol - it depends on how inefficient or insane features SE implements but I'm pretty sure you can get at least high settings across the board.

I strongly suggest getting a SSD!

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Yeah you should be fine no problem lol - it depends on how inefficient or insane features SE implements but I'm pretty sure you can get at least high settings across the board.

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I hope so :3, dont wanna invest much more to play another version of ffxiv :/

And yeah i bough the pc already, just prob there was better hardware for the same price out there :/

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Originally Posted by Tiago

I hope so :3, dont wanna invest much more to play another version of ffxiv :/

And yeah i bough the pc already, just prob there was better hardware for the same price out there :/

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Could nab a SSD when they are on sell that will really help with loading times. Doubt FFXIV will be using more then 2gb of ram so just make sure your background apps aren't using too much (too many chrome tabs, pr0n videos.. stuff like).


Your graphics card can play Crysis well enough. Also FFXIV ARR is going to be coded to be more efficient then 1.0 - so what you are running now on 1.0 you could just step up one quality grade and have similar frames.

Overall I feel confident that you should be running well - just don't try 2560 x 1600 :P.

@OP: Well hopefully we'll get a benchmark soon but I suspect ARR will play on what you described just fine since the requirements are more lax in ARR than they are for the previous version.

lol i wont xD
I'll just run it at 1920x1080, i cant run 1.0 on max (without ambient occlusion and Depth of field on), i normally need to put it with a smaller resolution and low Multisampling, the rest works well on max once the resolution is around 1600x900 and no multisampling.

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Originally Posted by Tiago

lol i wont xD
I'll just run it at 1920x1080, i cant run 1.0 on max (without ambient occlusion and Depth of field on), i normally need to put it with a smaller resolution and low Multisampling, the rest works well on max once the resolution is around 1600x900 and no multisampling.

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Ambient Occlusion is bugged - it destroys everything lol. (Normally the feature doesn't do that :P, though in normal scenarios it still takes frames - just not like FFXIV's does).

Lol, i kinda noticed when my friend on a GTX670 couldnt run the game at all with it on :3

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Originally Posted by ninesunz

I strongly suggest getting a SSD!

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Can I just install FFXIV on the SSD or would it be better to install windows OS on the SSD as well?? or doesn't matter too much for the OS?

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Ambient Occlusion is bugged - it destroys everything lol. (Normally the feature doesn't do that :P, though in normal scenarios it still takes frames - just not like FFXIV's does).

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I actually listened to your advice several months ago about the Ambient Occlusion setting on the FFXIV Config. I took it off and my game ran much better, but I have it active on the NVIDIA Control Panel instead, and it works much better on there. The FFXIV Config's was really bad.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Can I just install FFXIV on the SSD or would it be better to install windows OS on the SSD as well?? or doesn't matter too much for the OS?

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You can put just FFXIV on a SSD. The OS doesnt need to be on there - I assume you have more then 2GB of ram? (I wouldn't dissuade you from putting your OS on the SSD either though).

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

I actually listened to your advice several months ago about the Ambient Occlusion setting on the FFXIV Config. I took it off and my game ran much better, but I have it active on the NVIDIA Control Panel instead, and it works much better on there. The FFXIV Config's was really bad.

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:D ! Glad that helped~ And the NVIDIA Controls are pretty cool you can do a lot to your game just through NVIDIA's configs (though remembering what you did just when a game starts to get pissed at you is sometimes frustrating lol)

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Originally Posted by Shougun

You can put just FFXIV on a SSD. The OS doesnt need to be on there - I assume you have more then 2GB of ram?

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Cool, thx - got 8GB of ram so should be good on that part :)

I'd say go with a Commodore 64 or gtfo!!.... I kid I kid...

4gb is not enough this days... 8gb at least or if you go with 16gb you can disable the windows paging to make the hard drive go faster and make it last longer.

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Originally Posted by Signy

4gb is not enough this days... 8gb at least or if you go with 16gb you can disable the windows paging to make the hard drive go faster and make it last longer.

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4gb is fine XD (dont scare people now >.> lol). You just have to be smart about how many apps. you got up - though 8gb and even really 16gb is super cheap these days (and is super useful for bloating your active apps list XD). Think I got my 16gb corsair ram for ~40 cause of a sell.

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Originally Posted by Tiago

Heya guys.
I just bough a new computer friday, and since i'm kinda rusty on Hardware selection, a friend told me to buy this:

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX8120
RAM: KINGSTON 4GB/1600MHZ
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB SATA 3'5"
GPU: MSI GTX650 1GB DDR5 OC

This costed around 550€ which was what i had to spend on a new computer (was saving for PS3, but i'm pretty sure this is a better choice to play ARR hopefully).

Think this will suffice to run ARR smoothy almost at best resolutions? I been asking myself because their recommended specs are kinda high and since i cant run current version fully maxed out... :/

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Motherboard: Seems fine.
CPU: ranked 109/418 (According to passmark)
RAM: Get 4 sticks of 4GB. (it's affordable) Seriously 4x1gb is dated, or if you're running 2x2gb that worries me for gaming.
HDD: really doesn't matter for MMOs. It sores data? Cool!
Video Card ranked 75/471 (According to passmark)

Baseline gaming system is how this looks to me. Moar ram plox.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

4gb is fine XD (dont scare people now >.> lol). You just have to be smart about how many apps. you got up - though 8gb and even really 16gb is super cheap these days (and is super useful for bloating your active apps list XD). Think I got my 16gb corsair ram for ~40 cause of a sell.

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Just to add: Some operating systems can't even use more than 4GB like 32 bit versions of Windows 7. In cases like that, adding more will do a person no good at all.

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Originally Posted by Wynn

Just to add: Some operating systems can't even use more than 4GB like 32 bit versions of Windows 7. In cases like that, adding more will do a person no good at all.

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OH man I really hate that. I mean I know about it so its cool for me but I get people asking me "why isnt my system using all its memory". And I face palm at microsoft and ask "Are you running 64bit pro version?" and they say no and then I face palm at microsoft again.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

OH man I really hate that. I mean I know about it so its cool for me but I get people asking me "why isnt my system using all its memory". And I face palm at microsoft and ask "Are you running 64bit pro version?" and they say no and then I face palm at microsoft again.

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Why facepalm at microsoft? 32 bit was a nessisary version of windows 7 for compatibility reasons.

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Originally Posted by Cedri

Why facepalm at microsoft? 32 bit was a nessisary version of windows 7 for compatibility reasons.

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Microsoft has ram limitations as part of the 64 bit versions. Home is 8gb but premium is 16gb. If you have 16gb but not premium windows 7 you have 8gb anyways.

Windows 8 has hilarious limits though 128(home)/512 gb(pro)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Microsoft has ram limitations as part of the 64 bit versions. Home is 8gb but premium is 16gb. If you have 16gb but not premium windows 7 you have 8gb anyways.

Windows 8 has hilarious limits though 128(home)/512 gb(pro)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

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OH you're talking about that I thought you were talking about 32 vs 64 bit os XD

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Microsoft has ram limitations as part of the 64 bit versions. Home is 8gb but premium is 16gb. If you have 16gb but not premium windows 7 you have 8gb anyways.

Windows 8 has hilarious limits though 128(home)/512 gb(pro)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

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128/512GB ram.... damn times are changing fast.... lol I still remember when I was going OMFG this game needs 15 floppy disks to install on my hard drive.... I think was running 128MB ram also...

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

128/512GB ram.... damn times are changing fast.... lol I still remember when I was going OMFG this game needs 15 floppy disks to install on my hard drive.... I think was running 128MB ram also...

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oh the days of windows 3.11... Also, remeber when ZIP disks came out!? OH MAN!

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

128/512GB ram.... damn times are changing fast.... lol I still remember when I was going OMFG this game needs 15 floppy disks to install on my hard drive.... I think was running 128MB ram also...

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http://blog.fagerholm.de/uploads/Har..._128GB-RAM.jpg

128gbs.. looks like a server :P

Enjoy loading all of your programs into memory at once, and then shortly melting your cpu.

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Originally Posted by Cedri

oh the days of windows 3.11... Also, remeber when ZIP disks came out!? OH MAN!

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All I can think of about older windows is all the crashes and memory leaks >.>. Must.. re..star...t... blue screen (leaks more then blue screens but w.e I think its awkwardly funny when it happens at the same time).

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Originally Posted by Shougun

http://blog.fagerholm.de/uploads/Har..._128GB-RAM.jpg

128gbs.. looks like a server :P

Enjoy loading all of your programs into memory at once, and then shortly melting your cpu.



All I can think of about older windows is all the crashes and memory leaks >.>. Must.. re..star...t... blue screen (leaks more then blue screens but w.e I think its awkwardly funny when it happens at the same time).

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ah the future of home computing.

i suggest you get a SSD its almost a must on new systems

anyone here heard or read if ARR have Ambient Occlusion setting?

SSD= Serial Sata Disk?

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Originally Posted by Tiago

SSD= Serial Sata Disk?

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Solid State Drive. Its because it doesn't have any spinning parts, in simple terms just think of it like a giant RAM (Random Access Memory) brick.

(SSD are slower then RAM btw :P so.. yeah take the comparison loosely :P)

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Originally Posted by Tiago

SSD= Serial Sata Disk?

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=SSD

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=SSD

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LOL! Thats the coolest website ever XD. I dont mind answering random questions but looolz that's funny.

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Originally Posted by urban

anyone here heard or read if ARR have Ambient Occlusion setting?

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If it does, I sure hope it actually works this time.

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Originally Posted by Wynn

If it does, I sure hope it actually works this time.

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I could be making this up but I feel like (awesome assurance.. right? lol) that Yoshi said the reason why it wasnt fixed is because they felt developing extra features to a system that was going to be tossed was wasteful* of their resources and that they rather be as efficient as possible. So who knows if it will be in, but if it is in expect it to work.

* Which is a major reason why new content systems or large scale fixes that weren't utterly necessary never happened.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Can I just install FFXIV on the SSD or would it be better to install windows OS on the SSD as well?? or doesn't matter too much for the OS?

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You get the most from you SSD if you install the OS on it. Fast boot times, better program responsiveness (if you install them on the SSD). I can't work on HDD based PCs without feeling irritated at their sluggishness anymore... For FFXIV 1.0, you will also get rid off the microstuttering since SSDs handle small files much better than HDDs.

Overall, pack everything you can on the SSD. If they weren't so expensive, I'd move to SSDs completely.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

You get the most from you SSD if you install the OS on it. Fast boot times, better program responsiveness (if you install them on the SSD). I can't work on HDD based PCs without feeling irritated at their sluggishness anymore... For FFXIV 1.0, you will also get rid off the microstuttering since SSDs handle small files much better than HDDs.

Overall, pack everything you can on the SSD. If they weren't so expensive, I'd move to SSDs completely.

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Newegg had 128GB SSD for $100 bucks for the black friday weekend stuff so I grabbed one, should be arriving soon :)

Wife is going to kill me.... *again*

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Newegg had 128GB SSD for $100 bucks for the black friday weekend stuff so I grabbed one, should be arriving soon :)

Wife is going to kill me.... *again*

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I was going to grab one too! haha but my husband gave me a death stare from across the room, so I had to look at it lovingly and weep instead

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Newegg had 128GB SSD for $100 bucks for the black friday weekend stuff so I grabbed one, should be arriving soon :)

Wife is going to kill me.... *again*

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Just show her your subligar - works on mine... :D :D

(If you (anyone) have any questions http://lmgtfy.com/ ... lol XD, but seriously that I know of there are at least 5 CS majors on the forums and hundreds of computer hobbyists.. so together we can make ARR look sexy and load instantly)

Please dont defrag your SSD though.. :P