FFXIV video settings TIPS!

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Hi Everyone,

I did some experimentation with FFXIV's video settings and these are the settings that i find worked best for me. I also found that there's really only 2 settings in there that are glitchy and seem to have a major impact on performance.

Here are my settings Which give me 60FPS outside.

Display Mode: Full Screen... It does create some screen tearing. It's quite annoying but playing in windowed mode resolves this.

Forcing VSYNC through drivers will fix this, at least for NVIDIA cards.

Window Size:[/B] 1680X1050

Multisampling: 16xQ CSAA

General Drawing Quality: 8 (standard) I can set this to 9 no problem but i will drop to 45-50FPS... settings to 10 tho' will result in a 50% FPS drop and bring me to 25-30FPS. The last option is definitely not well optimised and it makes no sense to see such a big impact on performance simply by going from 9 to 10.

Seeing as 9 has the engine work on a screenbuffer 1.5 times your resolution, and a setting of 10 will increase the screenbuffer to twice your resolution, it does make sense that you see drastically lowered performance.

Also, it is important to keep in mind, if you are a NVIDIA card user, that they label their AA settings in a strange way. Take a look at this article on AA by AMD and NVIDIA. (edit: I know you are using an AMD card, this is for the NVIDIA owners out there)

Background Drawing Quality: 5 (high)

Shadow Detail: Highest


Graphics TAB

Ambient Occlusion: Off, Turning it on will result in a 50% drop in FPS just like putting general drawing quality to 10. I don't see any visual difference other then this weird black line across the screen, splitting the screen in two. One side in a permanent shadow and the other side bright. It is quite annoying.... a glitch perhaps?

There is a difference, though whether it is worth the hit we take to FPS, is personal preference.