Any plans on optimization?

[Louisville15]

I know this game has a ton of stuff that needs to be fixed first, but I'm still curious if there are any plans to optimize this game. I have a monster PC and this game still runs extremely choppy at times. I'm not getting my hopes up because better optimization is probably far down the list of things needed to be addressed, but I thought I would ask anyways.

[miqokini]

I definitely second this. I spent a crap load of money on my beast of a machine, and while the game looks great, I also notice that it gets pretty choppy sometimes.

[Eekiki]

The only time it gets choppy for me is if it has to send a bunch of data to their servers at once, like when I enter the city, and it has to bring up a bunch of character data so they get displayed on my screen.

So what needs to be optimized is how the clients communicate with the servers. That'll probably take care of a bunch of choppiness.

[Delsus]

The only time it gets choppy for me is if it has to send a bunch of data to their servers at once, like when I enter the city, and it has to bring up a bunch of character data so they get displayed on my screen.

So what needs to be optimized is how the clients communicate with the servers. That'll probably take care of a bunch of choppiness.

From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.

[Eekiki]

From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.

I can see where that's true. I got a HUGE improvement in the amount of time it takes to load a lot of character models on the screen simultaneously when I upgraded my graphics card from a GTX275 to a GTX580.

[Delsus]

I can see where that's true. I got a HUGE improvement in the amount of time it takes to load a lot of character models on the screen simultaneously when I upgraded my graphics card from a GTX275 to a GTX580.

That would help because the extra power of the 580 allows it to render the graphics from the dats alot faster, It could be a mix of everything though, maybe an official responce so we know where we would need to upgrade for the best performance, or if its somthing SE SE can fix and where they are on it.

[Louisville15]

That would help because the extra power of the 580 allows it to render the graphics from the dats alot faster, It could be a mix of everything though, maybe an official responce so we know where we would need to upgrade for the best performance, or if its somthing SE SE can fix and where they are on it.

It runs much worse than it should for me, and I don't even have everything maxed. Running an i7 @ 3.6 and 3x 470 SC in Tri-SLI.

[Ava]

From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.

SSD doesn't fix choppiness. Using a 50 GB OCZ Vertex II with only OS and FFXIV installed and I still have choppiness, all the time, with graphics set to "Standard" across the board. Especially during weather effects. Rest of my PC is of similar quality (Radeon 5850, 3.2 Q9550, 8 GB RAM). I can run anything perfectly except FFXIV.

[Delsus]

SSD doesn't fix choppiness. Using a 50 GB OCZ Vertex II with only OS and FFXIV installed and I still have choppiness, all the time, with graphics set to "Standard" across the board. Especially during weather effects. Rest of my PC is of similar quality (Radeon 5850, 3.2 Q9550, 8 GB RAM). I can run anything perfectly except FFXIV.

I would say thats because of your CPU, even though its at 3.2GHz an i7 has features that help to improve performance, like turbo boost (if its needed) and hyperthreading, which your CPU doesnt.

[Ava]

I would say thats because of your CPU, even though its at 3.2GHz an i7 has features that help to improve performance, like turbo boost (if its needed) and hyperthreading, which your CPU doesnt.

The Q9550 is more powerful than the low end of i7s, the only CPUs worth upgrading to would be a hi end i7 or i5 and I can't justify upgrading my mobo + cpu with the current games on the market. If this game requires a high end i7 just to be able to play smoothly on Standard settings, then that's a serious design flaw. I know people with significantly worse computers than mine claiming to run on higher settings just fine. This would indicate a serious optimization issue.

Your choppiness is due to the weak HD5850. It just can't handle this many polygons in crowded areas. With my HD5870 I get 60 fps most of the time. If I play fullscreen and use Crossfire I always get 60 fps.
You can set everything to highest except general drawing (8) and AO. There isn't much difference since the polygon count is the same.

Perhaps you can shed some light on this then. I have a friend who plays using a Geforce 460. According to the benchmarks (i'll let you Google them, they are everywhere) a 5850 performs higher than a 470 (one model above the 460). This friend has his settings all set higher than mine and claims to not have any sort of choppiness at all with a standard HD and a comparable CPU (IIRC he's using a low end i5). How could this discrepancy be explained?