FFXIV Temps on GTX460

[Coldfire]

Those 10k RPM models are usually not much faster than others but consume way more power and make alot of noise. Also pretty useless are those hybrid drives that are a mix of SSD and HDD. Just buy a fast SSD(Agility III or Intel 510 are pretty fast) or a normal small HDD(<500GB).

[DAOWAce]

Thank you for all of the suggestions, everyone! Tomorrow I will go through them and post my findings here.

Any update?

[Khalus]

Your choice, but Sandy Bridge is the best bang for the buck at present time. This will change when Bulldozer and Ivy Bridge hit, the first of which is soon. I'd suggest waiting.

Bulldozer and Ivy Bridge prolly won't be available until spring 2012 at the earliest last I heard. And after how bad a launch Sandy Bridge had, {not saying it'd happen again} but I'd wait until fall 2012 to get those new CPUs. For now Sandy Bridge is more than enough to help destroy any current game with a good GPU.

[Coldfire]

Thought Bulldozer comes out in october o.O

[Beeli]

Any update?

Yes! Sorry, Summer = vacations. Just got back from a trip a couple days ago. Sorry for the delay!

Anyways, I lowered all my settings to standard, turned off all extras (like DoF), and then shook my fist at SE for their crappy in-game shadow effects. Unfortunately, I still had quite a stuttery run in game. SO, I figured it might just be my starting city of Gridania (which people have mentioned is a little tougher graphically for computers compared to the other two starting locations), so I made a character in Ul'Dah to test out the game there. Not a happy camper... In the town, as well as outside of the town, I noticed frequent game stuttering and when a dust storm picked up outside I just had to log off.

I'm going to make overclocking my VC a last-resort, since I have a great warranty on it. However, I was going to test the game again today using origamikitsune's suggestion where I "nuke my preferences." If that doesn't do anything, I'm not sure what my remaining options will be.

Once again, advice is always welcome.

[Zephir]

on 460 (my old card) i usually set all to max with 2x AA (in full HD no need to use 4x)

General drawing 8 e background 5

no Ambient occlusion

and i stay around 60 fps outside and 35-45 in city

and I'm around 63 C (i have direct CU 460 with voltage tweak)

If you have a bad case circulation probably you hit over 70 on 460...but

[Beeli]

If you have narrowed the issue down to HDD stuttering you can mitigate some of that (not all of it) by nuking your preferences. It works for all kinds of HDD related stuttering.

In your Documents / My Games folder there will be a Final Fantasy XIV folder. Inside that is a bunch of stuff. Create a folder on your desktop, and remove everything in the folder into the temp folder on your desktop. Once that is done, move only your user folder back in to the FF folder, and run the game. See if that helps.

Okay, so... I've been messing with my stupid files for a while, trying to do what origamikitsune suggested, and I just don't think I'm doing this right. Could someone tell me a more comprehensive way to do this? I have Windows 7, so file names are different, too. :/ Nng.

[Beeli]

I have made a wonderful discovery that might possibly solve my problems! Of course, a second opinion would be wonderful. My computer has two PCIe x16 slots. I was reading somewhere on the forums that two GTX460 cards on an SLI setup can make up for the stutters I'm having. It's more affordable at $130 (on Amazon) than going out and buying a higher-end graphics card. So, does anyone agree or see a downside to this setup?

[Coldfire]

I doubt it will help. Instead it will give you more stuttering in form of micro stuttering ^^
And your PSU probably won't be able to support two cards.

[Zephir]

I have made a wonderful discovery that might possibly solve my problems! Of course, a second opinion would be wonderful. My computer has two PCIe x16 slots. I was reading somewhere on the forums that two GTX460 cards on an SLI setup can make up for the stutters I'm having. It's more affordable at $130 (on Amazon) than going out and buying a higher-end graphics card. So, does anyone agree or see a downside to this setup?

FFXIV really don't support in a good way multi VGA configuration...