Thread: FFXIV 1.0 graphics

Originally Posted by File2ish

This I'm having trouble believing. My laptop (core i5 M450 and a geforce 310m) couldn't pull that off without the frame rate dropping below 5FPS and overheating within a couple minutes. Low settings at native resolution didn't really have a huge improvement either and it looked like ass. I could've maybe pushed 15-18 frames with the lowest settings (which I believe Felis had in the screenshot), but that's about it. 1.XX's graphics engine was too resource intensive for laptops with the lowest end 200 and 300 series GPUs.

Unfortunately I have already uninstalled 1.0 from my laptop, or else I could screenshot my config. But there are configuration outside and inside game you can disable back then to give quite big performance. Shadow is always a big resource taker for one. I also remembered disabling extra stuff like PhysX-like stuff. But believe me, it's possible.

Here's more example from my laptop:

Day 1 raiding when Castrum Novum released back then:


Here's another from end of era event:


EDIT:

This is from old lodestone guide:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com.../config01.html

That is the ingame graphical setting. I disabled Character Shadows, Dust Effects, Extended Drawing, & Physics.

as for configs outside game:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...vi/envi05.html

Unfortunately I don't remember specific setting for that. But at least I can make it so that it doesn't looked blocky like what @Felis posted, that one just plainly bad, I won't even consider playing it. lol