Quote Originally Posted by Nici View Post
My old pc at the time couldn't handle it, playing the game as a slide show was impossible, i think i only played like a few days of the beta and just hit the uninstall button at the end...it was such a horrible experience, unlike ARR right now which i love so far.
When I first got the game, this is what it looked like at the settings I was able to play it at. Even with this there was lag.
(Note: this is not actually my screenshot, but it is exactly what the game used to look like.)


Around 1.18 I got a new computer, so I started playing again then, but even then it was a budget machine so at best I was using the standard setting. The frustrating thing about 1.x was that the standard setting was pretty much what should have been low, since anything less than standard was a significant downgrade in quality. Especially pixelation of not only the environment, but the nameplates. I mean why even release a game with a supported graphics setting that results in the text being illegible and most environmental features indistinguishable? Even FFXI looked better at minimum settings than that did.

And that's not even talking about the slow as molasses UI. Opening up a merchant's store interface or your retainer could easily take up to 30 seconds, especially if you were in the Ul'dah which was the hub equivalent of today's Revenant's Toll. Probably the biggest derp I've ever encountered in a public release of a game.