[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[SilvertearRen]

Well. Here are my specs, I recently upgraded...

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor at 3.2Ghz.
8 Gigabytes of RAM
Radeon 5870.

And guess what I see in the Control Center?

GPU at 99% load, when idling in FFXIV. The average temperature is 77 degrees Celsius. This is a problem. One of the most powerful graphics cards from the previous generation of video cards (which happened to be top of the line when XIV first launched), and the game can't be optimized so that it doesn't burn up my GPU?!

I think Square Enix needs to take optimizing their client for the PC platform seriously, because this is a major problem. Worse still, the client does not take full advantage of all six cores on my processor - it only seems to be utilizing two cores at the most.

My advice to the programming team: Implement code that will "seek out" additional cores on a computer and use them for graphics/physics processing where needed. Most game developers do this.

Oh, and reduce the retarded overhead on the GPU please. I don't want to see my video card die an early death due to some idiot programmer's lack of graphics programming aptitude. (Note to Yoshi-P: If my video card dies while playing FFXIV, I'm sending you the bill for a replacement. I'm not joking - got the Air Mail envelope ready in my filing cabinet.)

P.S. The fact that FFXIV is a DirectX 9 game, and we all likely have DirectX 11 video cards, is a little more than upsetting: Most DX9 games these days run GREAT on our video cards, yet FFXIV doesn't. -.-