video card suggestions

[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.

[Coldfire]

Maybe you need to edit your game.ver file. Sometimes the updater just doesn't update that file and the content is wrong ^^

[ScipioCaesar]

Well now that I'm actually playing the game and such I suppose I should ask how on earth you guys lvl up and the like? I did all my guildleves/battle&gathering leves, and I can't find any quests!!! What do you guys do while you wait for the leve timer to expire!?

[Coldfire]

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

[Khalus]

Well you can grind behest, but with the 1.18 changes its much worse an option than it was...at least to me it is. You can also attempt to find a PT, but that requires being in an LS that actually PTs, or shouting in the cities until enough players answer but thats never worked for me yet. There is currently no way to search for players looking for a PT either; well SE claims to have added a seek option, but thus far it comes up blank every time for me, thus its broken.

Or you can just go and solo grind mobs...but that gets old very quickly while alone. There are also quests all over with ? over NPCs heads that give a fair amount of SP, but you have to be certain levels for them to appear. Also the main storyline gives a substantial SP rewards for each mission, but they're few and far apart. The Grand Companies also give a little SP for each quest but that too is very limited for now. The first new dungeon is r25, and you could always try and camp outside it and see if anyone are doing Pugs for some SP.

Overall, there are many ways to get SP outside leves, but in all honesty, and at least IMHO, most of its quite bland and very boring, or requires substantial SP PTs between each milestone to unlock more of it, which are difficult to form.

Good Luck with it, but I think I'm done with 1.18 and now afk from XIV until 1.19.




So how goes your new PC...I suppose XIV looks and plays substantially better than before, try any other games yet?