GTX 580

[Blaze85]

My 580 never gets hotter than low 50's on full load. I'm using an Antec900 v2 case and it cools fairly well. Perhaps a new case would help!

[Zenaku]

My video card 3870 512MB is at 75-90C which is ok i play it all day when i used to play a lot without issue. My card only start to lag games with it reach 98C i talk to the company who made my card and said 90C is ok for this type of card. But i do wish SE make ffxiv better for video card some card which are 50x better then mine are going up to 90c also o.o

[Muegen]

hello there. i posted a thread a little bit ago about the performance of my 6990. im not trying to steer away from the 580 talk to much but i got no response in my thread.

Just a quick question here. What i am gathereing from reading this thread is that it is completely normal for me to be experiencing shity performance with my 6990 with draw qualities past 8 because of poor graphical design of this game on SE's end? I had the same crappy performance when i had 3 5870's running in tri fire mode. Ive played every other game like dragon age 2 and crysis 2 with max settings and it ran very smoothly with not even a stutter but i cant say the same for this game.

i was also reading in another thread posted on here that this game uses alot of cache from the hard drives and that some people were getting there stuttering problems fixed by switching to SSD's. I have two western digital caviar black 640's at 64MB cache in a raid 0 config. i couldn't possibly think that that is my issue.

i thank you for your time and hope to hear some responses from you about this situation/issue i still continue to have and hopefully SE reads this and we can get some positive feedback from them.

[origamikitsune]

Well, I had my GTX460 running at all max settings save no Occlusion or AA, and FF14 ran borderline too-hot. I dropped my General Draw Quality form 10 to 8, and enabled 16x QCSAA, not only does it look better, but I run almost a full 10c cooler than before. As for caching, yes, this game does seem to do a lot of it. Lowering the draw quality fixed a large % of that for me, to the point where I barely notice it even when I first log in. Though I do not have an SSD, I have a beast of a haitachi HDD, and I seem to have less problems than other people in otherwise nearly identical setups to me.

[Crowley]

reading in another thread posted on here that this game uses alot of cache from the hard drives and that some people were getting there stuttering problems fixed by switching to SSD's. I have two western digital caviar black 640's at 64MB cache in a raid 0 config. i couldn't possibly think that that is my issue.

This game certainly chews up GPUs that are a few gen old, core2 duos, and even while I ran that setup a SSD gave me an amazing performance increase over my Caviar Blacks.

XIV is a ton of very small files, which isn't optimal for an SSD, and yet I still noticed a world of difference.