6950 Performance

[Neptune]

Interesting. I've been running an SSD since day 1; I didn't realize it made that much of a difference. I figured it would only help out with between-zone loading screens.

[Capita]

Interesting. I've been running an SSD since day 1; I didn't realize it made that much of a difference. I figured it would only help out with between-zone loading screens.

It's due to Square's inability to utilize buffering properly, so we're forced to frontload a huge amount of data, which causes stuttering and frame loss. The SSD fixes this because it can actually read the data fast enough. Of course, you need fast enough RAM to keep up with the SSD and handle the data coming in. But most non-generic DDR3 RAM can do it easily. DDR2 is a little more selective, but it's fairly minor.

[Coldfire]

GW also runs on very old PCs and is super successful. Well FFXIV will appear on PS3 and that's what they put all their hopes on. But imho the PS3 is a disaster itself xD

[leomax]

Yeah SSD has made a massive performance for me as well, since I got my new lappy I put the SSD in it from my PC, now XIV on my PC stutters so much on 7200rpm HDD! :3

[Rydin]

Yeah SSD has made a massive performance for me as well, since I got my new lappy I put the SSD in it from my PC, now XIV on my PC stutters so much on 7200rpm HDD! :3

Velociraptors (10,00 RPM0 and caviar blacks (64mb cache) help with this also... not nearly as much as an SSD but at a much more reasonable cost per gigabyte