ARR Recommended Requirements?

[Malakhim]

I'm pretty sure the only reason they went with the 5xx series is branding. I was running FFXIV 1.0 with a GTS 250 without any problems and upped to a GTX 460 1 gig with almost no difference that I could tell. The card I'm currently running can be had for around 120 bucks now, so things ain't that bad. At least they aren't recommending an i7 this time. That was ludicrous.

[Issachar]

Alpha ran fine on a 6850

[lolodin]

i ran it on a 4200 wasnt too bad definintly not the worse

[radhaz]

I had an over heat shutdown with my R6970 in alpha, but that was with unlimited FPS. It was doing crazy frame rates. It performed flawlessly with 60 FPS.

[Xeon]

I think figuring out the specific video card that meets the recommended requirements is the least of SE's priorities right now.

Actually, this should be the first thing they are thinking about in the very first stages of developement, as performance issues with the old engine is the reason for the overhaul. You don't just program a game and say at the end, hey, now lets see what our game will require to run, or it could end up spelling performance disasters that came to be known as 1.0.

last I checked, and it's been awhile, but ATi/AMD was the largest manufacturor of graphics card chipsets. A company may optimize more towards one brand or the other, but just testing on one platform would be folly and would cost SE alot of revenue off of game sales. Usually a company wont just test for both companies, but go down the line testing most graphics cards made within the last 4-5 years or so, and SE would have had a target in the very beginning on what hardware they would be catering to, both low and high end.

Also, not specifying which 5xx series card would be required for the recommended settings might just stir some of those 520 owners to think they have a chance of playing with near max settings, which just by looking at the videos, can tell would not be possible. I can see, however, not listing an AMD cpu for recommended as they are just so far behind I5/7 at this time, but I believe those with recent quad core AMD cpus will stand a chance of having enough power under the hood, should this game be highly optimized for multi-core CPUs.

And as glad as I am to hear that the alpha version was running well as far down as with a radeon 4200, you guys shouldn't be mentioning this info until the NDAs are lifted to avoid service suspensions or worse.

[SirOleas]

It's probably a mistake...but as stated earlier... They are not minimum requirements either.

I just hope NVIDIA releases an SLI profile that doesn't suck.
2x GTX 580s...Must...max...game...out.... x.x

Edit: After looking at the minimum requirements I don't know why anyone would be worried really...You know...unless you're running a PC from 15+ years ago.

[Xeon]

Awww, my 5850 stopped booting.. Not even sure why, just wouldn't boot anymore after shutdown... RIP 5850 ... *Plays taps*

Had to go pick up an OEM version of the 560 ti which is only slightly better, but unlike the retail version, its more like the 570/580 and has 3 way SLi so might be a cheapy way to max out the game

[ChiyoKatsui]

I'm running on the following stats, and Alpha ran at 60fps full time, on max settings. Didn't use the unlimited fps option.

MOBO: ASUS CrossHair III Formula
CPU: AMD Phenom II 955 BE OC @ 3.8Ghz
RAM: 4GB G.Skill 1333 DDR3 RAM (Win7 32bit - So only like 3200MB usable)
GPU: AMD Radeon 7700 HD Ghz Edition (OC@ 1.2Ghz Clock - 1.125 Ghz Memory)

It only cost me about 360 bucks to upgrade my old rig to this. Only old part left is my DVD drives and HDDs.

[Meatdawg]

pretty sure i'm not breaking any nda, but keep up your rental cop duties pseudopsia....

[ChiyoKatsui]

60fps until you panned over the aether gate in Gridina where you dip to like 20 fps

Uh, nope. Never expierenced that.

Two above posts are breaking NDA, I suggest you clean them up.

Nothing was revealed about the Alpha. Unless you count the FPS mention. Which case, any common game has those.