FPS cap, in-game graphics, on-the-fly settings! Where are they? Why?

[leomax]

This isn't really a rant, more of me trying to understand as to why XIV is poorly optimised imo.

Now I know people are going to disagree but I was an avid first person shooter gamer before I got into MMORPG's, I came from a good decade of Quake/Unreal/Counter-Strike gaming.

I remember that XIV in beta phase iirc was uncapped or capped at 120FPS.

Surely this would help with large scale events in the futue if you get my drift, then again I can't really remember how much more fluid it was in beta now, granted this is an MMO and not a first person shooter.

So why was it removed? Can't we just of had the option to cap our FPS with VSYNC if desired instead of capping it?

Also why don't we have in-game on-the-fly graphics options? Surely this is the standard for 2011 and a next gen MMO?

I just want to know why SE chose to do this as it is frustrating having to go through the tiresome process of having to log out every time when I want to tweak/adjust something.

Does it have something to do with these FF MMO's being cross platform? I vaguely remember XI being limited to 25FPS which I found annoying as well.

Now thinking about it PS2 games ran at 30FPS and most PS3 games run at 60FPS, is this why?

Shouldn't the PC version be standalone?

Thanks :3<3

[Wolfie]

Because the game released with an unfinished engine ("Core Programming Issue").

I'd like to hear from the community reps if they have anyone working on bringing this game in line with more modern PC games. We've received almost no word at all about any work on the game's engine or server issues, aside from "it's a problem" and "when it gets fixed, we can do X".

[Griss]

Because with uncapped fps the game had the tendency to cause rigs to to heat up so much the owner could cook dinner and play at the same time?

[Wolfie]

Because with uncapped fps the game had the tendency to cause rigs to to heat up so much the owner could cook dinner and play at the same time?

That's... not true at all.

And even if it was, who cares? People can manually cap their own FPS if their hardware is not up to snuff.

[Zanfire]

Once they fix the garbage coding and make the game not suck the life out of our GPU and CPUs then they can talk about FPS unlocking. The game is too piss poorly optimized for them to worry about half that stuff. On top of that the game itself is still missing basic features.

[Malakhim]

Once they fix the garbage coding and make the game not suck the life out of our GPU and CPUs then they can talk about FPS unlocking. The game is too piss poorly optimized for them to worry about half that stuff. On top of that the game itself is still missing basic features.

This basically.

[AngryNixon]

A vote for optimization is a vote for great success.