Why can I hardly run this game?

[indira]

well you do have a AMD, but this game does a ton of media loading as you move around,whats your HDD read speed? a SSD will make things 100% better.
your card is good.

or wait till ARR then it should run alot better.

[Valmonte]

well you do have a AMD, but this game does a ton of media loading as you move around,whats your HDD read speed? a SSD will make things 100% better.
your card is good.

or wait till ARR then it should run alot better.

thats bullocks im playing XIV on a WD: Cavier black 7,200 RPM Drive and the only time player popping occurs is when the game reaches the 40 player limit.

[Jaimie]

Here are my settings:

CPU Q8200 quad core 2.3 GHz
4 Gb RAM
550ti

windows 7 64bit

1920 x 1080 windowed
2x MSAA
gen draw qual 9
bck draw qual 3
shadow 3
amb occ OFF
texture qual high
texture filter standard


Game runs fine for me. Got anything running in the background, ie some crappy anti virus program. I use AVG.
Maybe the issue is with the AMD.

[indira]

thats bullocks im playing XIV on a WD: Cavier black 7,200 RPM Drive and the only time player popping occurs is when the game reaches the 40 player limit.

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smooth 60 fps on my rig with a corsair force red drive SSD maxed out 1920x1080 regardless of what im doing. no way your getting that maxed on a 7,200rpm way more people on my server also all bunched up in ul'dah.

yeah, 1.15 or 1.16 actually made the game worse FPS wise but increased overall UI responsiveness.

nope, been smooth since day one on my pc, just the connection was hell of slow & laggy back then. the game did DX error though back then alot.

[Laraul]

Using fraps to record the game at 60 FPS, I discovered that the UI elements (action bar, log window, status icons, etc) all update every other frame. So the UI is capped at a constant 30 FPS. This isn't a problem just an interesting observation.