1.18 is great but we still need better optimization of the game.

[Zenaku]

I deactivate Vsync from Nvidia control panel and set "single display performance mode"

After this

1920x1080P (windowed)
4XMSAA
General Drawing 8-9
background drawing 5
Shadow Highest
Ambient Occlusion
Depht of field
Texture quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest

You can probably use MSAA 4x 8x
Your resolution
General Drawing 8
Background 5
Shadow: High
NO ambient occlusion
Depht of field (try)
Textures quality:High
Textures filtering: High/Highest




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I can play with the Depht of field but i can't really see any diff to be the true o.o

[AarosLunos]

I can play with the Depht of field but i can't really see any diff to be the true o.o

Depth of field smooths/blurs the background texturing with distance to create an artificial foreground focus type effect. It looks really nice, surprised you can't notice it.

[Alexis_Arteme]

Hi there, I have a GTX 570 and when I play FFXIV with everything "standard" the room turns into an oven and my computer sounds like it's going to have a heart attack.

Do I have something toggled on I'm not supposed to? I really don't understand half of this stuff:

Display Mode: Windowed
Window Size: 1920x1080
Multisampling: No AA
General Drawing Quality: 8 (Standard)
Background Drawing Quality: 3 (Standard)
Shadow Detail: Low
AO: Off
DoF: On
Disable cutscene effects: Off
Enable hardware mouse cursor: On
Texture Quality: Standard
Texture Filtering: Standard

I'm not aware of a better place to go with this so if there is let me know and I'll head there, thanks...

[Radicaled321]

Vsync can help you if you have continue FPS drop

pay attention moving from GTX 460 to 580 (check your PSU)

lol yeah thanks but i just upgraded my psu to this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/245669

so it will be able to handle the gtx 500 range

[RopeyDonkey]

My issue with the game is the 'lag' I experience purely due to the round-trip so many actions need to make to the Japanese based servers. I have a good spec PC (wont bother with specs, I play with high/highest settings and get a fairly consistent 30-60fps) but REGARDLESS of FPS, the UI still feels painfully sluggish. If a mod wants some tracert readings I'll be happy to supply them - I'm based in the UK with a high speed ADSL2 line with a solid minimum of ~8mbps and an ISP with good T1 links, latency really shouldn't be an issue. I don't have problems with any other games but XIV feels horrible to play (FFXI is fine by contrast). At times its OK, but often it makes me log out. 60FPS and laggy UI makes me cry inside /sigh.

I know all the server-side checks were designed to prevent RMT - is that even working? Seems that botting etc is rife...

[Coldfire]

Hi there, I have a GTX 570 and when I play FFXIV with everything "standard" the room turns into an oven and my computer sounds like it's going to have a heart attack.

Might as well turn AA and Texture Quality/Filtering up. The problem is that ffxiv completely "does love to your GPU". It gets hawt and needs to be cooled. Open the door and a window lol

[Alexis_Arteme]

ffxiv completely "does love to your GPU"

oh dear...

[Coldfire]

I wanted to imply that ffxiv does stuff with your GPU that it's not really designed for. Lots of players have problems due to the high usage.

[Zephir]

Hi there, I have a GTX 570 and when I play FFXIV with everything "standard" the room turns into an oven and my computer sounds like it's going to have a heart attack.

Do I have something toggled on I'm not supposed to? I really don't understand half of this stuff:

Display Mode: Windowed
Window Size: 1920x1080
Multisampling: No AA
General Drawing Quality: 8 (Standard)
Background Drawing Quality: 3 (Standard)
Shadow Detail: Low
AO: Off
DoF: On
Disable cutscene effects: Off
Enable hardware mouse cursor: On
Texture Quality: Standard
Texture Filtering: Standard

I'm not aware of a better place to go with this so if there is let me know and I'll head there, thanks...

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You can go a lot far with 570

4x 8x AA all to high and general drawing 8 and background to 5

Your CPU? I see a lot of difference from my stock 3.4 2600k to the 4.5-4.7 ghz OC that i have right now

[Coldfire]

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You can go a lot far with 570

4x 8x AA all to high and general drawing 8 and background to 5

Your CPU? I see a lot of difference from my stock 3.4 2600k to the 4.5-4.7 ghz OC that i have right now

OC would turn that oven into hell though :P