6950 Performance

[Masturshake]

Well now that you have fixed the GDQ problem.. Now you can run windowed... at least I would... that could fix your issues...
And yea Premium V, The game is so unoptimized...

So you're saying windows will stopp my tearing / jitters?
Alright i'll give her a try..

[Rydin]

So you're saying windows will stopp my tearing / jitters?
Alright i'll give her a try..

I know people have reported a lot less glitches in windowed mode as opposed to full screen

[viion]

Yeh its known issue the game is unoptimized, but even still that GFX should of not been doing 30fps haha, lest you figured it out, the frame buffer matters a lot, if you was on like 1080p and doubled it you'd be having a 4k/2k res which is pointless imo, if you was running at like 720p and doubled it, it could probably handle it better as it'd just be a resized 1080p.

[Neptune]

Now that you got your drawing quality sorted out, turn your AA back on and max it out. It won't affect your performance.

[Masturshake]

Now that you got your drawing quality sorted out, turn your AA back on and max it out. It won't affect your performance.

Yeah i went on ahead and did that ahh feelsgood.. see this is what i was expecting from a GPU upgrade lol.
Well now i feel pretty confident that i can max out all the mmo's to come
Tera/GW2/B&S

[Neptune]

Yeah i went on ahead and did that ahh feelsgood.. see this is what i was expecting from a GPU upgrade lol.
Well now i feel pretty confident that i can max out all the mmo's to come
Tera/GW2/B&S

Yep you are set. Makes me kind of feel bad for newcomers to the game that would assume they could max drawing quality. When the game was released it didn't have that setting so when it came out we all quickly found out it was bs. But new players like you don't have that luxury. The luxury of quickly detecting SE's bs. lol.

[Capita]

Yep you are set. Makes me kind of feel bad for newcomers to the game that would assume they could max drawing quality. When the game was released it didn't have that setting so when it came out we all quickly found out it was bs. But new players like you don't have that luxury. The luxury of quickly detecting SE's bs. lol.

It's always had the setting, but it was under a different name. I forgot what it was called, though.

[Evangela]

Yeah i went on ahead and did that ahh feelsgood.. see this is what i was expecting from a GPU upgrade lol.
Well now i feel pretty confident that i can max out all the mmo's to come
Tera/GW2/B&S

your new video card should probably overkill all the mmo's in next few years except Final Fantasy Fourteen

[Khalus]

your new video card should probably overkill all the mmo's in next few years except Final Fantasy Fourteen

Most definitely, FFXIV is the new EQII. I've been playing the Extended server the last week since I upgraded to a GTX 580, and with everything on max I get an average of 35-48fps. For an MMO thats nearly 7yrs old, and with one of the best GPUs on the market, I was expecting a solid 60+, but ah well...not bad.

You'll have no problems playing the next generation of MMOs starting this fall, cause while SE doesn't quite understand it, many others do ~ its all about accessibility. Why do ya think WoW has so many subs {PCs that are a decade old can run it fine}, but anyway, you're set for the next 2-3yrs easy!

[Chrees]

For anyone with an ATI/AMD card, I would also give this a try. I've still got a 5770 myself, which I'm planning to upgrade around the end of summer, and this boosted my FPS by about 10-15 or so:

Just as a point of interest for anyone using an AMD/ATI graphics card.

I recently picked up the latest drivers for my card (In the AMD Radeon HD6900 series running on Windows 7 64-bit), along with the 'patch' released to help out with Brink and various other issues. Since installing these, along with fixing Brink (the program I originally installed it for) Final Fantasy XIV also runs a lot faster and quieter, not entirely sure about heat however.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...win7-64.aspx#1 is the driver page
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...15ahotfix.aspx is the hotfix page.

At the very least, it may help out some of you for the moment. Along with that, I have found the game has been running better after certain patches and such, though that may just be placebo.

EDIT: Just realized that the hotfix was originally for 11.5. Not sure whether or not it was included in 11.6 as well. My bad! I'll do some more research and get back to you!

EDIT 2: Seems like the fixes were included in the 11.6 release as well. So if you have the latest drivers, you should be good to go. Carry on!