A word from IGN.com

[viion]

Goes to show how much this guy knows lol. As usual, you can't spell IGNorant without IGN.

How is he wrong? Go look at all the patch notes, there are always several bugs being fixed. (And many wont even get released) and there are still bugs today lol.

[Mack]

How fun, my PC isn't nearly the best, but i get very good framerates (45-60) on max settings and no problems. This guy has a very elastic idea of "the best PCs", pretty much like the goon that reviewed it that said that you need an "insaely powerful PC". Lol.

Somehow I doubt this considering my PC is really good and I hardly hit 40-60 steady.

[TheVedis]

How is he wrong? Go look at all the patch notes, there are always several bugs being fixed. (And many wont even get released) and there are still bugs today lol.

name a game that has no bugs

of course they fix bugs! complaining that game fixes bugs is stupid

[Seif]

Nevermind my comment about ign having the 9th highest score for XIV as one of the reviews before that is from Vanadiel Online lol. So anyway no matter how you hate ign (personally I think EDGE is way better) compared to other notable press ign is absolutely in love with XIV. Which of course brings their journalist abilities seem a bit dubious.

[Loony_BoB]

Why we are even discussing an article from August 2010 is beyond me. The OP is very misleading by linking to such an old article.

[Zozor]

Why we are even discussing an article from August 2010 is beyond me. The OP is very misleading by linking to such an old article.

This.

Come on people pay attention. We're late April 2011. If it's not an article that includes comments about patch 1.17 then don't worry about it.

[Holy_Dragoon]

IGN reran the article over the weekend (with a few tweaks), hence why it got brought up. Yes most of the information in it is completely out of date.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I know right Abriael. I got like a $600 machine , Emachine with factory everything except video card and then in my PC I have a 9800 GT.

[Kurokikaze]

i7 930 @ 4.0GHz
6 GB DDR3 RAM
Radeon HD 5850

Given the above specs the game still chugs using the following settings:

1600x900 (windowed)
8xQ MSAA
8 Standard (General Drawing Quality)
3 Standard (Background Drawing Quality)
Lowest Shadows

Depth of Field ON
Ambient Occlusion OFF *-50% FPS. Not exaggerating*

This game is very poorly optimized and suffers from memory leaks over time that leads to the game crashing.

NO ONE is running this game perfectly while maxed out.

[Betelgeuzah]

Indeed, and the last thing we need now is to excuse them for that. This game may be primarily designed for high-end machines, but that is no excuse to not to optimize their engine much further. It is clearly possible.

Hopefully that next-gen engine guy can do something about it.