**NEW AMD Radeon Driver, EXTREME boost for game.

[waldo]

Got my R-290 (overclocked to R-290X specs with the Artic Cooler III mod a whopping 150usd difference between the two) for only 329.00 usd from Newegg on the 1st shipments! Didn't realize until now that the R-290 prices have nearly doubled!! WTF!

Sell it fast!!

[Atheena]

Sell it fast!!

Pfft I'm keeping both of mine sold my 5850's already ><!

[Autymnfyres]

Very good to hear this. Just wanted to note that I've a older rig I put together last year -- Radeon HD 7750 card and the game has played amazingly ever since I stepped into early launch. Even fps is 65+ out in zones and 55-60ish in town. Maybe I'm just lucky? Then again, I'm running overmuch ram which is always delicious as well. My bf's Dell XPS desktop w/nVidia and as maxed out as he could get in when ordering from the corporate world - eh, runs FFXIV ARR, hmm ick-ily? LoL. Until my little build experiment last year I was a marked white knight for nVidia in gaming, but I'm now extremely pleased with the performance I get in mmo's with AMD.

[waldo]

AMD = same thing (for the most part) for less money.
Personally I've had few crash issues with AMD than nvidia hands down.
To each their own.

[Youmu]

Goddamn, I picked a 7950 over a 290 earlier this year to save cash, and here I am thinking I couldve made cash buying it new and reselling.

[Dervy]

Well, AMD is way behind Nvidia imo

As one of those "Nvidia fan boys", I'll tell you this now. Current Nvidia drivers are absolutely horse faeces and I'm honestly considering making a swap to AMD cards if Nvidia continue to make terrible drivers. I'd say AMD currently ahead of Nvidia, lol.

[Iymala]

Thank you for the heads up on the new drivers.

[Pseudopsia]

I would like to see SE add Mantle support to the Directx 11 client that is coming.

In theory it should increase the frame rate a lot in situations where there are 100 characters displayed such as large fates. Might even allow the 100 character display limit be increased.

I will switch back to AMD video card if SE does this.

[Doki]

I've always gone with Nvidia because EVERY LAN party I've gone to, it's only the people with AMD cards that get crashes, and complain about their horrible drivers.

[Ryios]

I'm not really a fanboy of either, I just use whatever gives me the best performance for the price for the game I want to play. And at FFXIV Launch, that was an Nvidia 760, which was the cheapest card with the highest benchmarks on an i5-2500k build.

However, I do LOVE shadowplay. makes it so much easier to stream.