GTX 780 running <20 fps at Revenant's Toll, normal?

[Ryios]

Ps4 will be better than average PC's....

But for someone like me who builds them from scratch and has every component upgraded to it's max... It's not going to touch me. I had better all around specs than the PS4 before the PS4 was even announced.

i5-2500k 4.8ghz water cooled,
32GB Ram
2 * SSD in Raid 0 at 966 mbps on data transfer
1 * SSD for games
GTX 760's in SLI for main gaming monitor at 2560X1440
On board Video for 2nd and 3rd monitor

I run the game in a borderless window and get 60fps stable everywhere I go, even in toll and fates like Odin and Behemoth.
1000 Watt PSU

[Norack]

That is odd cause on my old computer i ran a fail AMD phenom II 1090T with just a 680 and got 45 in all crowded areas, i would say its your CPU so definately upgrade that or like others have suggested OC it, but i personally dont OC anything. Or in order to see a little bit of improvement, and i mean a little bit your not gonna see alot i would recommend rolling back your driver.

[ispano]

Better than Average? Eh, not so sure. The CPU is rather weak, even compared to normal Mid Range AMD CPUs, with Intel the gap is even higher. The GPU portion is pretty much a 7870, which is basically mid range now @ ~$150.

[Reiterpallasch]

A 780 should not only give you great fps, but scratch your back and bake you cookies too.

So yeah, something else is the issue for sure.

[Zezlar]

It's a DX9 game running on a DX11 designed card with a lack of drivers/optimization.

I don't think we'll see any improvements until then. I have an i7 3820 @ 4.2ghz and a GTX680 OC and my performance is garbage, but if I go turn on anything else my performance is through the roof.

[Aysha_Alese]

final fantasy 14 does not like 1st gen i7 processors

I recently upgrade my graphic card from 560 Ti to 780, and expecting a really smooth game.
Well it is, until I got to Revenant's Toll and point my camera to the crystal, the frame rate just drop below 20 fps.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, have the latest driver installed, my other hardware are not top class but still quite decent: CPU i7 930, 12 GB Memory.

The game graphic setting is set to maximum, is this normal or something wrong with my computer?

Thanks.

[Pseudopsia]

I went and confirmed how low I could get the FPS. It's lower than I thought it would be.

When I zoom out and angle the camera a certain way I got as low as 30 FPS.

System: i7 3930k @ 4.5 Ghz and GTX Titan stock

[Dano]

get a SSD, the character models of other players are not loading fast enough due to slow loading speed of mechanical HDDs

[Awake]

get a SSD, the character models of other players are not loading fast enough due to slow loading speed of mechanical HDDs

You Sir win the internet!

[Diraco]

Sure, the PS4 COULD be the best-optimized of any client due to its unchanging hardware, but if you go by what SE actually did with FFXI and the PS2, what will happen is the client will be not-very-impressive performance-wise at release, and will get slower and buggier after every expansion. Let's not even mention what they did with the XBOX360 version. Console players didn't get special treatment either in this regard -- the PC version also got much slower over time (not entirely the fault of SE), but at least it didn't crash as frequently.

If SE was really concerned about performance, they'd have a 64-bit client using the latest-release of the intel compiler, and they'd also have a special version for AMD (since the intel compiler is broken for non-intel). This would likely cause only a few percent increase though.


Oh, with my GTX780 and 331.82 driver on w7sp1-32, 5ghz 2500k: At the Toll with ~100 characters onscreen and 1920x1200 true-fullscreen (max settings, culling off), the lowest framerate I observed was 39fps. The aetheryte and crystal background was visible. CPU usage was about 68% and about 1GB of ram was used. Looking at the ground in the same position i get 101fps and only 58% CPU.

Also, turning on culling boosts lowest framerate from 39 to 50fps, but only when there isn't much character motion. The extreme framerate fluctuation this option causes makes it way too annoying to keep enabled.