VIDEO GUIDE: Maximizing you FF14:ARR frame-rates

Hello all, I made a video guide on my stream on how to increase your in game frame rates through some windows fixes and software settings, this should yield anywhere from 1-16fps increases.

Here is the video, feel free to drop by my stream to ask any questions, or if you just need some assistance with these fixes.

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You may stop by my stream to say thank you, or if you have any general questions
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Hey we're neighbors on Levi. :)

I don't really understand what you are referring to with "aero mode" - it looked like all you did was change your theme / background?

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Originally Posted by Sebastien

Hey we're neighbors on Levi. :)

I don't really understand what you are referring to with "aero mode" - it looked like all you did was change your theme / background?

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aero mode is a system UI that uses heavy processes when you don't want it to. XSplit disables it automatically for you anyways, but turning it off renders more processing power to running progs and such.

Why not just post the tips in written format? It would be much easier to see what you are talking about then.

Thanks a lot of this.
Hugely helpful things i'd completely missed.

I tested these out last night, as did some of my guildmates. Unparking the CPU does offer some performance improvement, but it seems to vary a lot depending on your system and where your bottleneck is. For me, I only gained 0.5 FPS on the benchmark. However, some of my guildmates saw bigger gains.

As for the "aero mode", I feel like wolfman was a little confused/confusing in his explanation. He's actually turning aero off, not on. On my system, this had absolutely no impact on framerates at all. (Actually my benchmark score dropped by a few points when I turned aero off, but not even a tenth of a frame's worth.)

I'm going to try f.lux this weekend.

Are you talking about windows Aero? I've tested over and over myself and it automatically turns off when you launch a game. It has no effect at all on or off..

If yer system can't handle Aero being on then it's really time to upgrade lol

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Are you talking about windows Aero? I've tested over and over myself and it automatically turns off when you launch a game. It has no effect at all on or off..

If yer system can't handle Aero being on then it's really time to upgrade lol

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Yeah exactly, but this was just another plug for a livestream promotion I'm pretty sure.

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Yeah exactly, but this was just another plug for a livestream promotion I'm pretty sure.

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If all you can see, Strychnine, when people genuinely try to help others, is a form of negativity and means of self gain then I am sorry you don't have the maturity to understand why good people help others in this world.

See it as you want,

do I get more people visit my stream because of this? yes.
Do I get more people come and appreciate what I do because of this video? yes.

Was it a shameless plug? no. I am happy I can help people improve their performance and introduce them to f.lux. I don't stream for money, I make 0 income off of it and I do it because I have a love for gaming..... Take that as you will, I'm just happy the people who are willing to accept the help get the performance increases they otherwise would not have gotten.

I respect your opinion and hope you understand that this is meant to help people, if my stream gets exposed because of this, well, then so be it, I cannot control that.

Awesome man, I love flux btw many thanks :)

I have no Aero I'm running win8.

PS: Just ignore the haters/trolls, at least someone is trying something positive it's just never good enough for some.

Its not about a system not being able to handle both aero and a game, but that aero does take up a fair amount of resources that could be used in the game. Especially for those of us who play on a laptop.

bump bump, get this info out there

Bump for your effort

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Awesome man, I love flux btw many thanks :)

I have no Aero I'm running win8.

PS: Just ignore the haters/trolls, at least someone is trying something positive it's just never good enough for some.

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If you're running Windows 8, it's time to downgrade.

Thank you. This helped a lot.

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Thank you. This helped a lot.

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Kahlane! Greetings from Sargatanas :-) Welt, Luk, Krystyl, Tonytaru, and them are all on Gilgamesh in BG.

I just did what you said, will see what happens in game. I have trouble because sometimes npcs take a while to appear. It happens more then I wish it did. So we will see. Thx for the tips :D

as far as windows areo that gets disabled anytime you run a application in full screen in windows 7 and windows 8 is not effected by it do to the fact windows 8 does not have aero effects.... Kinda moot point considering most systems wont flinch with it on...
As for parking your cores first off you do not need a external app to do it with... Can be done form windows power management... alittle bit of info on parked cores

Windows sees all cpu HW threads as logical cpu's so a cpu with 4 cores and HT will be seen by windows as a processor having 8 logical cpus however when windows parks one thread of each core on such a system the actual HW core is not parked, just one thread of each core. For the HW core to be truly parked would require both threads of that core to be parked. So windows core parking is really HW thread parking. When one thread of a HW core is parked and the other is running that core cannot enter the higher c-states.

C6 does not need to be enabled for windows core parking as all windows core parking means is not scheduling the HW thread that is parked. Of course if there is a opportunity to park with power savings such as C6 all the better.

as far as seeing performance increase vs non increase is pretty much placebo.. Your prob seeing the increase from changing your power plan from balanced to high performance which allows the cpu to work at max speed without much intervention from c stat power management ...

you need to run each test 3 times and take the average of the 3 tests test 1 test 2 test 3 divide the lowest fps by the highest fps gets your actual real world fps... You can also do this via key frame counter... The lower frames lost the better the fps is which is a more accurate way to check performance fps.. as your not counting THE on screen fps your counting the frames lost or not lost... Least amount of frames lost = best performance.. which can differ from actual fps.

I run FF with my Laptop and this helped me get more stable FPS's
Thanks for the guide dude.

I'm glad I could help everyone out so much, it makes the time investment worthwhile knowing I could help so many good people out.

If you have question you can ask me live on my stream if you wish, www.twitch.tv/elmosmybff if you guys and gals are otherwise ok and don't need help then happy trails!

Hey I liked your tweak to "unpark" your cores, i never heard of that before and it did give me an increase in FPS in-game.

Thanks for the advice OP, will try this out for other games, I run FFXIV capped @ 60 fps 24/7 but always nice information to use in the future, cheers!

Personally I think Flux makes the game look like crap - perhaps I've gotten used to the brightness when playing at night. The unpark the core app was a nice bump though.

Had some pretty cool people reach out to me and personally thank me for this over the past few days. It's great to see so many people seeing awesome performance increases!

Bump, get this out there

bump this up, people need to see this

You can also try using this :)
http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

Check this out anyone who hasn't

very useful information!

Not to be rude or insulting the info was hardly useful... Not to mention Turning on or off HT absolute does nothing for the program as its first off 32 bit and second off wont take advantages of HT.. Also unparking your cores isn't is not needed as just setting in windows power management... Please quit bumping your thread in hopes to get more watchers on your live stream thanks...

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You can also try using this :)
http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

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between that and just altering windows power-management would give the same result's as his cough video.

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Not to be rude or insulting the info was hardly useful... Not to mention Turning on or off HT absolute does nothing for the program as its first off 32 bit and second off wont take advantages of HT.. Also unparking your cores isn't is not needed as just setting in windows power management... Please quit bumping your thread in hopes to get more watchers on your live stream thanks...

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Tell that to the over 2,000 personal thank yous on stream, the countless emails I receive, and the many shout-outs I get; all with frame rate increases by almost every single user who has made these changes.

My video has contributed increase gains to thousands of people. Please stop post buffing your stats on a forum, it's not worth it bro.
Thank you!