Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Alpha test now accepting applications

[Reika]

The current game is not well optimized for PC . . . a well optimized game wouldn't have you changing simple graphics options such as resolution with the game closed only, or shut down when you alt-tab when in fullscreen . . .

[Fear]

The current engine is well optimized. It's still highly demanding though. Will ARR still terminate if you ALT-TAB during full screen? Probably yes. Will you be able to change your graphic settings inside the game? Doubtful. SE doesn't do PC games. They focus on consoles, where you don't have to worry about users with very different hardware configurations.

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

Learn to read the interviews/

Yoshi has said many times ALT + TAB WILL work without crashing the client, and he's also said many times users will be able to customize pretty much all settings inside the game so it plays well on most systems.

And Do you even know WTF your talking about? The new engine is nothing like the crystal tools engine, it's the reason we're getting a new one.

[Soukyuu]

From what I've seen the game uses basically the same engine. I'm sure changes have been made but they spent four plus years on the existing engine it would be silly not to use it.

Except they aknowledged the fact the engine is not fit for a MMO themselves... so it would actually be silly to go ahead and continue using it.

They also said that the new engine is based on luminous. The other parts of your post was commented on by other people already, and they are right. After YoshiP promising us all of the things, they better be in the client at release. Better yet, in alpha

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Can anyone compare for me?

Geforce 8800 Vs Geforce GT 130M

The GeForce 8800 or the 8000 series are EXTREMELY faulty. They only have a life of 6 months before they die. That's what happened with my 8600M GT. It caused the motherboard to fry 4 times and Best Buy's Geek Squad (lol) kept trying to replace the motherboard each time. It's one of THE WORST GeForce series to own.

[indira]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

no matter what your speed is SE servers are only going to average out there connection so you will be getting way lower connection to the game. were talking like 10-100kbps

[Jennestia]

no matter what your speed is SE servers are only going to average out there connection so you will be getting way lower connection to the game. were talking like 10-100kbps

You sure about that number?

[indira]

You sure about that number?

uploading pic.

30Mbps cable connection
one hour of FFXIV running around. green is the in & out yellow are packets
youtube is the spike on the right.

[Starlord]

This is my connection currently.

[rubina]

This is my connection currently.

That the speed of your computer's NIC for your LAN. Not the speed of your WAN connection back to your provider.

[Starlord]

That the speed of your computer's NIC for your LAN. Not the speed of your WAN connection back to your provider.

I see, How can I test that?