FFXIV VGA performance help

[Xquiel]

I got a HD 6950 and I run FFXIV on on the following settings:

Windowed -1920x1080
8x CSAA
General Drawing Quality - 10 (max)
Background Drawing Quality - 5 (max)
Shadows - Standard
Texture Quality - High (max)
Texture Filtering - Highest

AO and DoF - Off

With these I get 60fps out in the field and in Ul'dah 40-45fps. You can get a lot better fps though if you do this:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/159

It basically gives the HD6950 the same performance as the more expensive HD6970 by unlocking the shaders. The HD6950 has two BIOS settings which you can switch between just by flicking a switch. One you can mod one you can't so I have the HD6970 settings on one (which did make a big difference) but I am running the standard BIOS atm as cooling does become and issue with FFXIV running them and fan noise was annoying so I am awaiting some extra cooling before I run the HD6970 BIOS full time with quieter fans.

thank you so much! that's the info i was searching for! n__n, now i'm sure i'll buy the 6950 and unlock it in the future ^^
*i'm going to ebay lol*

[AlexiaKidd]

thank you so much! that's the info i was searching for! n__n, now i'm sure i'll buy the 6950 and unlock it in the future ^^
*i'm going to ebay lol*

No prob, I just did a bit of research about the temp's it reaches as I was concerned because it was at around 85-90C when running FFXIV but it seems that is nothing to be worried about and is just normal so going to switch back to the HD6950 BIOS now. When I get a chance I will run the Benchmark if you want on both so you can see the difference I can't remember what it was exactly but it was pretty big.

*EDIT*

Got the benchmark scores here though I am sure it was over 5000+ with the unlock before so going to see what I messed up, but this is what I got so far running on high settings:

HD6950 Stock:
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...1-39-06-67.jpg

HD6950 Unlocked Shaders:
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...3-03-26-81.jpg

Also I forgot that I changed my BIOS back to a HD6950 and used this unlock method as it is supposed to be safer, but I haven't really heard any complaint's about using the HD6970 BIOS method really so go with whichever you want I guess. Thinking about it I am sure I got the 5000+ score with the HD6970 BIOS as that was the one I was running for a while until I did this switch so maybe that method does work better. Here is a link to the other unlock method that keeps the HD6950 BIOS which is supposed to put less strain on the card.

http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/923...hz-shader.html

[Zenaku]

No prob, I just did a bit of research about the temp's it reaches as I was concerned because it was at around 85-90C when running FFXIV but it seems that is nothing to be worried about and is just normal so going to switch back to the HD6950 BIOS now. When I get a chance I will run the Benchmark if you want on both so you can see the difference I can't remember what it was exactly but it was pretty big.

Yes FFXIV run around 75-95C with ATI there noting really you can do not if you want to waste money on more Fan or a new cooling system for your Video card. One of the dev team did say that SE is going to fix the issue with computers so i hoping it would lowers down the temp and allow us to play in higher setting.

In beta1 i could not even play
Beta2 i could play pretty good but uncap FPS was bad
Beta3 was 60FPS

Then it away was 85-95C too patch 1.17 which made my ati drop 10-15C