The Mac OS X Client's absymal performance is a joke.

[JonFarron]

My post from Reddit:

So, I eagerly awaited the day I could play Final Fantasy XIV in native OS X on my Macbook Pro, only to find that not only did I have to miss out on Early Access, the final product wasn't even worth waiting for. It is beyond terrible. I have a 2015 Macbook Pro with 16gb of RAM, a core i7 processor, and an AMD R9 M370x GPU. The best this port can do is around 30 FPS ON THE LOWEST SETTINGS. That is garbage. This game runs at around 45-50 FPS on High (Laptop) in Windows 10 via Bootcamp, so why does it barely get 30 FPS in Mac OS? This has just been extremely disappointing and the $60 purchase was just not worth it. I guess I'll just have to switch into Bootcamp when I want to play on the go.

This was honestly just a huge disappointment and I hope they do something to fix it.

I would also like to go ahead and mention that if you download the Windows 10 Preview ISO from Microsoft and install it in Bootcamp via a USB drive, you will receive a free copy of Windows 10 when it's released late July. (just be sure to log in with your Microsoft account in Win 10). So you guys could buy the PC version and get Windows on your mac for free. I would give the partition at least 150-200GBs if you have the space.

[Reih]

This would be a solution if it weren't for some of the Macbook Pro Retina 15" having a base SSD of 256GB. Just on a windows install you lose 30GB-ish. Add FFXIV, around 20GB, and you are giving 50GB hard disk space for free. I'm not quite sure of earlier models have only 128GB instead.

Sadly, not even the most current line of Macbook notebooks can run this game properly. You'd think SE would learn from FF14 1.0. If this situation continues maybe top of the line MacBooks released by the end of 2017 will work properly.

[Delily]

My post from Reddit:



This was honestly just a huge disappointment and I hope they do something to fix it.

I would also like to go ahead and mention that if you download the Windows 10 Preview ISO from Microsoft and install it in Bootcamp via a USB drive, you will receive a free copy of Windows 10 when it's released late July. (just be sure to log in with your Microsoft account in Win 10). So you guys could buy the PC version and get Windows on your mac for free. I would give the partition at least 150-200GBs if you have the space.

That's unclear at the moment, people using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 will get the free upgrade for the first year, but it's not certain what people using the technical preview will get.

[Alef]

What version of OS X are most of you using? Is anyone using the latest El Capitan beta and does that help/hinder performance at all?

Why would El Capitan help ? I know Appel introduce Metal in it, but the FFXIV client is a just a wrapper and does not use Metal ? I guess to benefit from Metal, that would mean SE develops a new client isn't it ?

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Alef

[KisaiTenshi]

Why would El Capitan help ? I know Appel introduce Metal in it, but the FFXIV client is a just a wrapper and does not use Metal ? I guess to benefit from Metal, that would mean SE develops a new client isn't it ?

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Alef

Either SE would have to specifically design a Mac Client (eg like there is a separate PS4 client) or the third party would have to get the wrapper software to use Metal instead. There's been some comments that the DX11 client works somewhat better, but AFAIK it seems like the third party developer was way too naieve to think they could use the same technique used on some other MMORPG's that have low GPU requirements. (I mean really, FFXIV -IS- the one with the highest GPU requirements. Everything else I've ever played, except for Wizardry Online (which was specific to one dungeon) never required a video card upgrade from what was generally a 99$ GPU)

FFXIV requires a much higher minimum requirement, even V1.0 made systems cry.

[Aramyth]

You can only do that because you built your pc. If you had bought one premade, then you would be in the same boat. The fact of the matter is that we can open up our macs and upgrade components too, but it isn't for amateurs. I don't mind voiding warranties from time to time. Still, not one bit of that matters. The only thing that does matter is that I paid $60 for a mac client that isn't worth $10.

This. I want a working client for $60. If they gave it to us for free if we already owned the game I may be less inclined.

[JijaYanin]

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xivs...oke-1714525157

[Brianmj]

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xivs...oke-1714525157

About time someone blew this up.

[Madsamurai]

Heres hoping in the next Producers Letter, Yoshida addresses this with a native client in the works. One can hope right?

[Evangela]

lol that Kotaku author is one of the Mac gamers and he's angry!