video card suggestions

[Coldfire]

Amazon should have some for 10-20 bucks. You can get those anywhere though. Or use a LAN cable... which is always better anyway xD

[ScipioCaesar]

Well as a quick fix I just plugged in my network cable from my UVerse box into the computer, so here I am online and good to go. Rather than spend an incredible amount of money on a wireless adapter though I'm thinking there must be some kind of wire splicer/adapter that will let me connect to both my uverse and computer, I'll have to go looking for one tomorrow, its gotta exist somewhere, and definitely be cheaper than $60!

[Coldfire]

You need a certain rank for each quest. Just kill some random mobs slightly above your rank.

[Khalus]

So what do ya think of your new custom-built PC....much better than 'that thing' you had yeah!?

BTW, you have an EVGA MB and GPU, so don't forget to go to their website, make an account and register your products...do it immediately so you have their awesome warranties and 90-day step-up program, if need be...

Also do get their EVGA Precision Tools as well. You can use it to overclock your GPU, which honestly isn't necessary at all, but most of all you cna manually adjust your GPUs fan speed which I highly highly suggest doing, especially when playing XIV and really any high end game in from the past few years.

Your GPU will not auto adjust the fan speed properly for high end games and with XIV especially, it runs GPUs extremely hot due to being so un-optimized, so turn up that fan speed to 70+ when you're gaming and keep your GPU as cool as possible. You can turn it back down afterward. There are also on-screen temps and info you can display when gaming and even place a GPU heat monitor in your task bar near your clock.

Enjoy~!

[ScipioCaesar]

Haha, much better yes. Haven't tried any games yet, been preoccupied with my roommate having this sudden crazy urge to play duke nukem for ps2 so he ran out to buy the game and had me set up the ps2. I'm making sure I've got all my drivers installed/updated and then I'll start the process of downloading some games, steam, etc. And btw, internal tempature is good when its low right? Mine is saying like 35 degrees or so right now

[Khalus]

Yeah, thats very good, especially for having a GPU the vents its heat back into the case. It will raise exponentially once you push it with a modern game though. And you do have a decent case too, which helps a bunch!

[ScipioCaesar]

did you guys have ridiculous problems with the new patch download? i went 1-4 pretty easy but ever since i got to 5/5 i've rarely even gone over 100KBs/s. it's completely ridiculous

[Khalus]

Never use the SE patcher...I DL with the torrent file SE gives everyone...at least its much faster that way for me.

[ScipioCaesar]

Never use the SE patcher...I DL with the torrent file SE gives everyone...at least its much faster that way for me.

How do you do this? my updater just cancelled itself at 98.5% after like three hours. this game is ridiculous with crap like that.

[Khalus]

If I post how the mods will close the thread...they did several times already. Just look in your My Documents/My Games/FFXIV/downloads/ffxiv etc, or search for a guide with google!

Dunno why they're getting so butt hurt about it when they give us the means to do it with each patch.