[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Ilean]

I wouldn't say 99%... It runs fine for me... I get 60fps

You 1percenting lucky sob!

I get 60 as long as I'm not in town or black shroud.

[Rydin]

You 1percenting lucky sob!

I get 60 as long as I'm not in town or black shroud.

You'd be surprised how many HD5870's (or better) or GTX 470's (or better) are out here that can handle the game just fine on 1920x1080 and tons of cards that can do it on lower resolutions...
The game could be more optimized... but most people still run the game fine.. the main gripe being that it could run better...
and you wouldn't need a GTX 460 or better to even play the game

[Ilean]

You'd be surprised how many HD5870's (or better) or GTX 470's (or better) are out here that can handle the game just fine on 1920x1080 and tons of cards that can do it on lower resolutions...
The game could be more optimized... but most people still run the game fine.. the main gripe being that it could run better...
and you wouldn't need a GTX 460 or better to even play the game

With AO on?

[Rydin]

With AO on?

I don't have AO on, Not really that big a deal for me honestly

[Jynx]

With AO on?

Ambient Occlusion is a resource hog for almost anything it's in.

[Kaizlu]

You'd be surprised how many HD5870's (or better) or GTX 470's (or better) are out here that can handle the game just fine on 1920x1080 and tons of cards that can do it on lower resolutions...
The game could be more optimized... but most people still run the game fine.. the main gripe being that it could run better...
and you wouldn't need a GTX 460 or better to even play the game

5870? Madness!!!

I'm actually running the game on 1920x1080 with a HD 5770 and I really have no problems at all. Running with 4x MSAAA, but with AO off (I didn't really noticed a difference). Even so, for some reason I do believe the game can run better and as others have stated, the game does heat up my GPU faster than the other games I run (the most recent one would be The Witcher 2).

[Zephir]

Probably a lot of card can woek well with FFXIV....with a little setting work..but.

For me real problem is with HI-END card and higher settings.

I have now a Gtx 590 and without AA (at 1920x1080 i don't need AA) and without AO....if i max all other setting i encounter a lot of problem like slowing down....

And it's not acceptable that a multi GPU card can't blow this game...

A little more optimization can definitively be welcomed

[Tiraelina]

Probably a lot of card can woek well with FFXIV....with a little setting work..but.

For me real problem is with HI-END card and higher settings.

I have now a Gtx 590 and without AA (at 1920x1080 i don't need AA) and without AO....if i max all other setting i encounter a lot of problem like slowing down....

And it's not acceptable that a multi GPU card can't blow this game...

A little more optimization can definitively be welcomed

Increasing General Drawing Quality past 8 is pretty much the same if not worse performance hit as SSAA. It makes the game render at 1.5x or 2x your resolution at 9-10 respectively IIRC which really isn't needed.

[Ilean]

Increasing General Drawing Quality past 8 is pretty much the same if not worse performance hit as SSAA. It makes the game render at 1.5x or 2x your resolution at 9-10 respectively IIRC which really isn't needed.

Definitely worse as antialiasing doesn't increase resolution for textures and shaders like Draw Quality does 9-10.

[Coldfire]

You sure anything changed? The graphics seem to be the same for me xD