Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Point_Zero]

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No... I spend 3K on a hobby that I really enjoy. I dont only play games on my computer. I saved up and built it. I am not showing off at all or else I could of spent 10k building a computer. If you dont have anything good to add to the thread please dont.

[Point_Zero]

To be honest I thought more people would bite I really wanted to talk about how peoples computers run ffxiv. /sigh this was in no way a thread to try and brag. I am sorry if it came off that way I'm sorry.

[Diraco]

To be honest I thought more people would bite I really wanted to talk about how peoples computers run ffxiv. /sigh this was in no way a thread to try and brag. I am sorry if it came off that way I'm sorry.

I was also wondering about how the game runs on high-end machines. I'm particularly interested about how it runs for that guy using an intel SSD. I find that slowdowns related to loading dynamic content are really annoying to me. It happens quite a lot on my current machine with XIV, and it seems to also on your machine. I'm wondering if this is a function of the video drivers, so if anyone with a radeon card could add a comment...

Loading slowdown also happens on XI with my current machine, but it only causes maybe 100ms pauses. On my previous athlonXP machine with a radeon 9800, there were no loading-related slowdowns. I was very disappointed to see that model loading causes whole-second pauses on the Playstation2 version of XI.

[Diraco]

The funny thing about this is look at you CPU usage when it happens.. I think it might be you CPU, or definitely the hard drive, I want to get a couple SSD and put em in raid but I just cant justify spending that much money while the price per gb is so high.

Well I mentioned the athlon XP because although it was about 3X slower than the e8400 CPU and GPU, it didn't have the problem. I'm still using that same hard drive too, however I reformatted & reinstalled XP on the new system.

If you want to experiment with an SSD, just get a single 16G one and put XIV on it

[Point_Zero]

lol thanks for the caps.. but yeah it really doesnt hurt :P I actually really enjoy it. Considering the stuff I was into for years, it was a welcome change to spend my money on something that wont kill me. I was more or less shocked to why you said that thats all. Besides I worked for 2 months and saved up and bought it.. you make it sound like I bought a rocket ship.. its only 3k lol..

[Shaolin]

Mid-range computer I built back in 2007 for little less then 1,000 dollars. With the game settings I use, I get about 40-60 FPS usually.

Game Settings Screen Shot: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/3...ivsettings.png
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W
RAM :Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Mobo: MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX
PSU: Rosewill Xtreme Series 850W
GPU HS:ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler
CPU HS:ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler
Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower
Optical Storage: SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD Burner Black SATA
Monitor: ASUS Black 22" 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor
Random Media Hookups: Connected to a 46" Sharp Aquos LCD TV and 5.1 HT in another room for movies and other stuff. I use a Logitech Y-RAN77 keyboard to control it from the other room. The keyboard was designed for my PS3, but it works with windows 7 just as well.
Main Keyboard & Mouse: Both are cheap walmart junk, good enough for an MMO