Need Some Help With Specs.

[Coldfire]

That'll run the game just fine... someone else I know runs it on that same GPU and has no complaints. You have 8GB of RAM so no need for an SSD.

You could have 800GB RAM and it wouldn't help a bit. This game never ever gets above 1GB RAM usage and knows no preloading. An SSD is the only solution until they fixed the engine. And there's a big difference between "running" and "enjoyable". With a 540M it will definately not be enjoyable.

[Laraul]

You could have 800GB RAM and it wouldn't help a bit. This game never ever gets above 1GB RAM usage and knows no preloading. An SSD is the only solution until they fixed the engine. And there's a big difference between "running" and "enjoyable". With a 540M it will definately not be enjoyable.

An SSD is the only solution? You think everyone playing this game runs it off an SSD? Well I assume most people don't. I certainly don't. I have 8GB of RAM, and I know that Windows will map files fetched off the disk by the game to RAM for quick retrieval later. The next time the games fetches them it just grabs them from the disk cache, rather than the HDD. This is highly effective on systems with enough RAM availible to support 2-3GB of files mapped off the drive. Which is why most people don't need an SSD.

And this video of a 2010 MacBook Air running the game, using a far less powerful GPU than a 540M, shows that you can get the game running well enough to enjoy.

[Coldfire]

An SSD is the only solution? You think everyone playing this game runs it off an SSD? Well I assume most people don't. I certainly don't. I have 8GB of RAM, and I know that Windows will map files fetched off the disk by the game to RAM for quick retrieval later. The next time the games fetches them it just grabs them from the disk cache, rather than the HDD. This is highly effective on systems with enough RAM availible to support 2-3GB of files mapped off the drive. Which is why most people don't need an SSD.

And this video of a 2010 MacBook Air running the game, using a far less powerful GPU than a 540M, shows that you can get the game running well enough to enjoy.

Please stop spreading nonsense on the support forums that could lead to people buying junk. Windows will NOT fetch files for FFXIV into memory and that video shows an empty area with no fighting and an outdated benchmark. If you read reports of people on the forums you would know this.