PC Graphic Card - Help Appreciated

[Marishi-Ten]

The graphics with windows of 8 card makes for do issue with game. If you can make for get window of 7 then you'd be very much well off. Also not for very sure of SSD, as they're typical more slow due to being solid (the electric takes longer to pass through it).

Windows 8 actually streamlines RAM allocation and allows for heavy rendering to load faster than Windows 7 (VRAM/RAM caching).

SSD's (Solid State) have I/O speeds of 600MB/s while a mechanical drive is around 140MB/s. SSD's have no moving parts making them much more consistent and less prone to problems (MTBF is 500,000 hours on average). SSD's don't need to worry about heat, and can survive multiple critical power failures.

I believe you mean the flow of positive and negative electrons that send the 1/0 binary signal. Electron flow is constant and doesn't change. A hard drive is limited to R/W capabilities and the SATA/PCI bus speeds (which any SSD in the market today will out perform any mechanical drive that has ever been in production).

You signature leads me to assume that you might not take my word for it so here are some citations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage

[gadzi_h]

You should be able to use the thunderbolt port to add a few graphics cards using a PCIe external case. Just search "thunderbolt external gpu enclosure" in any major search provider and you will see some answers.

[Haibel]

https://forum-ru.msi.com/index.php?topic=78679.0

Here it is possible to replace the video card
see screenshots
Russian forum, see your English forum MSI

On an Alienware/dell laptop that is designed with that option in mind. OP has a Sony that cannot be upgraded this way.
Nobody said you can't upgrade any laptops graphics, Just that the OP Can't upgrade his.

As far as current laptops out there that can play this game. You can get away with anything that has an AMD A8 or A10 and play
this game fairly well. A6 and lower is only a little better then Intel HD graphics. So that really the option you have for Budget level
laptops. You can at times find sub $700 laptops with actual Graphics cards if you look around but you can find AMD A8's all day long
for $400-$600. Just depends how good you need the graphics to be.

[Marishi-Ten]

You should be able to use the thunderbolt port to add a few graphics cards using a PCIe external case. Just search "thunderbolt external gpu enclosure" in any major search provider and you will see some answers.

I've always been really interested in playing around with the external GPU solutions. I know MSI touted the GUS/GUS II as an affordable and compact solution but it looks like they cancelled it: http://www.change.org/petitions/msi-...want-to-buy-it

Bums me out because that seems like such an awesome concept. I know Apple has their own external solution (for a disgusting amount of money that is): http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...card-case-deb/

Sonnet has a more "put together" solution: http://www.sonnettech.com/

[scootie12]

I appreciate the replies. Just to reiterate, I got the laptop primarily for work purposes a week ago, but maybe I'll see what the return policy is and just eat the fee for restocking.

I'd love to have the game on the go, and if I can find something better suited for gaming, that would be perfect.

I've never been tech savvy with graphic card side of computers so I always figured speed trumped most things, especially a computer with nice 1080 display.

I'll look into options this weekend. Luckily I haven't done anything with the computer yet other than playing around with FFXIV options......priorities :-D

[Marishi-Ten]

I appreciate the replies. Just to reiterate, I got the laptop primarily for work purposes a week ago, but maybe I'll see what the return policy is and just eat the fee for restocking.

I'd love to have the game on the go, and if I can find something better suited for gaming, that would be perfect.

I've never been tech savvy with graphic card side of computers so I always figured speed trumped most things, especially a computer with nice 1080 display.

I'll look into options this weekend. Luckily I haven't done anything with the computer yet other than playing around with FFXIV options......priorities :-D

Look around for a mid end machine. Personally, I don't mind "legacy" machines. I have/had an Asus G60Jx that ran XIV just fine (BIOS bricked. Long story filled with frustration and hardware modifications I'll get that sucker back up and running). My testing laptop can run XIV on high (Acer 5560G). There are deals out there (I got both machines above on Ebay) you just gotta look for them and know what you can live with and a deal when you see one.

Happy hunting!

[Aethaeryn]

Definitely don't follow the guide that guy posted from the Russian forum. Best bet would be RMA and buy something else. I'm not really sure what's on the market in that price range for laptops these days, so make sure you read a lot of reviews and benchmark results before you buy one.

[scootie12]

I was able to exchange my laptop with no issues.

Ended up paying a few hundred more for one with a dedicated graphics card 740, and also upgraded to 16GB RAM etc. now the game plays beautifully and looks awesome. Nice to finally be able to see it on PC running smoothly and looking very detailed :-)

Now I can toggle between PS3 and PC. Only sucky part on PC was having to redo my hear sets and hot bars, but I did it fairly quickly

Thanks again everyone

[scootie12]

Forgot to mention. The guy that helped me plays FFXIV hahaha

[Vanidin]

Glad you found a good solution!