[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Fear]

The game is definately in need of some more optimisations. I just spent a small fortune on building myself a new high spec PC and im still getting some minor hiccups within the game, you'd think a £1600 Custom build PC would run this game flawlessly at max everything on a high resolution, but clearly not.. Looks like im going to have to blow an additional wad of cash getting a second card to SLI and something to cool the damn system.

£1600? I just built a PC for £850 and I can run the game on max. everything (besides AO and Field of deph) with a stable 50-60 FPS. Got Intel i5 2500k & ASUS 6950HD. Tho I do have an issue with the game freezing/skipping from time to time and the only way I managed to fix this was by turning off the CPU's power-saving mode, I had to force the CPU to run at 3600Mhz otherwise it kept jumping between 1700-3400 and lagging the crap out of me

[Konachibi]

£1600? I just built a PC for £850 and I can run the game on max. everything (besides AO and Field of deph) with a stable 50-60 FPS. Got Intel i5 2500k & ASUS 6950HD. Tho I do have an issue with the game freezing/skipping from time to time and the only way I managed to fix this was by turning off the CPU's power-saving mode, I had to force the CPU to run at 3600Mhz otherwise it kept jumping between 1700-3400 and lagging the crap out of me

Currently running with:
Windows XP
2GB RAM
Geforce 210
AMD Athlon II x4 620 (2.61ghz quad core)

Game is installed on a 120gb IDE 7200rmp Harddrive that also houses windows.
Also have a 300gb SATA harddrive.

Can currently run the game on default 'standard' settings, runs smoothly in many areas but often drops in frame-rate in heavy foilage areas such as bushes around trees in Thanalan and most of Black Shroud. Weather also causes a drop in frame-rate, which can make it especially horrible in Black Shroud when it starts raining. However most of Thanalan and La Noscea run smoothly.

In cities, Ul'dah runs perfectly, Gridania runs fairly ok, but for some reason Limsa has a horrible frame-rate whenever I'm near the adventurers guild.

I'm hoping to upgrade my Geforce 210 to a Series 4 GT soon, as well as adding an extra 2GB of RAM

I was wondering though, would my loading times and possibly some in-game lag be reduced if I moved my games installation over to the SATA drive instead of running it on the IDE drive that also houses my OS?

[Coldfire]

Make sure your PSU can power the new GPU. You will also have to install Win7 x64 to safely use the 4GB RAM. And yes a SATA drive will most likely reduce the stuttering when loading characters.

[Konachibi]

Make sure your PSU can power the new GPU. You will also have to install Win7 x64 to safely use the 4GB RAM. And yes a SATA drive will most likely reduce the stuttering when loading characters.

I'm using a 650w PSU at the moment. However it's also running the DVDRW drive, 2x 12" fans on the front of the computer case, 2x 6" fans on the side of the computer case, and the processer fan, and the shiny blue lighting inside the case, and another 30gb IDE harddrive.

It IS using DDR2 RAM though, not DDR3 (sadly) so I figured more = better.

Think that'll be enough wattage for the series 4 GT + 2GB RAM upgrade though?

I don't really get stuttering in the game though from character loading, it's mostly just frame-rate lag from graphic-heavy areas.