CPU Bottleneck

[Capita]

Did you even read what I wrote? Your "tools" mean crap when actual physical testing on both dual and quad cores proves that the game uses more than 2 cores. CPUz and a host of other CPU monitoring software agree with me, yet somehow your one "tool" disagrees? Yeah sure. You're more than welcome to stick to a dual core, but I'll laugh if you try to use anything higher than a GTX 460 in it. Hell, my E8600 was struggling with a single GTX 460, while my Q6600 runs the game flawlessly with dual GTX 460's, and my i7 920 doesn't even begin to choke.

I'm also well aware that hyperthreaded cores aren't physical cores, which is why I mentioned "physical" and "hyperthreaded" separately.

Battlefield 2 and Bad Company 2 also have the same problem as FFXIV. Both games use four or more cores, so using a dual core on either of them with any decent GPU severely bottlenecks the system at the CPU. Both bottlenecking problems are completely fixed with the use of quad cores, which is further proof that both games use more than two cores (BC2 was a paltry 30-50 FPS with an E8600 while a Q6600 using the same video card ran it at 80-120 FPS on max settings). It's not a coincidence that both games run ridiculously better on four cores than two. Benchmarking performance doesn't lie, otherwise people wouldn't bother with them. If you still try to tell me the game doesn't use more than 2 cores, you're severely stubborn, misinformed, and stuck in 2006.