Post your game settings tweaks

[Franzisca]

And the 580 still isnt optimized a lot and furmark gets my card to mx 75C ffxiv does it to 85C (all other games, crysis, AOC rift, or maxed games are at around 72C in full load with stock cooling).

Its exactly the same for me, Crysis, Metro 2033, etc. are running about 10°C cooler than XIV.

The Nvidia driver will prevent 100% GPU load (and will also clock down if needed) for all known stress-testing tools, e.g. Furmark, OCCT, in order to protect the card. This rule goes only for the 580 so far and has been discussed on Nvidia forums recently after people were wondering why the older 480 beats the 580 in Furmarks benchmarking tool.
(Sorry for this being Off-Topic).

Square Enix is in charge to optimize their engine now....hope they will do. A patch for an optional DX11 or OpenGL 4.x mode would be great but i don't see that coming for a long time.

[slipmac]

figured out what was making my game studder. i really thought it was lag because it only did it in town.
then i got to thinking nobody is on my server lol. it was Multisampling: X8

[Khalus]

Guess I'll join in on posting settings:

• Mode: Windowed with Borderless Script
• Resolution: 1600*1200
• Multisampling: 16xQ CSAA
• General Drawing: 8
• Background Drawing: 5
• Shadows: Highest
• Ambient Occlusion: off
• Depth of Field: off
• Texture Quality: High
• Texture Filtering: Highest

I keep a solid 60FPS in any outdoor/underground zone. Unfortunately, I suffer from the weird stuttering bug within the cities too, thus my FPS drops to between 30-45 for a few min while everything initially loads, then my FPS returns to a solid 60. It still stutters on occasion, when new players/NPCs enter my view, but its not that bad...


And here are my Custom-built PC specs:

• Motherboard: EVGA P55 FTW 200 SLI
• CPU: Intel Core i7-K875 Lynnfield 2.93GHz
• GPU: EVGA GTX 580
• Monitor: 40" Proscan HDTV
• Case: Antec 1200
• PSU: Antec 750w
• RAM: 8GB A-DATA Gaming Series DDR3 1600
• HDD: Hitachi 1TB 7200

Lastly, a few images: {if anyone cares...lol}

• I ~ II ~ III ~ IV ~ V

[origamikitsune]

I'm on my laptop now so I can't post screenies; at the beach and won't be on the desktop for another couple days. Just the same...

General Draw Quality: 8
AA: 16xQ CSAA
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Everything Else: On/Max
Vertical Sync: Forced via Control Panel

Frame Rate: 45 FPS
In Combat (At BW): 40 FPS
In City: 30-45 FSP

The System:
i5 2.8ghz
4mb Ram
GTX460 768mb GDDR5
HDD: Haitachi 250GB (Don't know make/model)
1920x1280 (windowed)

So yeah. That's where I'm at. I can push better frame rates, but I don't see the point for various reasons, and it comes at a loss of quality. If I play full screen (which I sometimes do; I'll set hulu up on monitor #2 with a play list, and just leave it), I gain anywhere from 5-10 FPS, depending on if I leave my other monitor extended or not.

This setup is all stock, no special cooling elements of any kind, just an acrylic case that is wide open.

Edit:
Also, I have very little to no stuttering in the cities due to HDD issues. If I leave the game running a long time without closing it down, or if I go a few weeks without dumping the files, it will start to stutter everywhere. I've found however that a once a week wiping of everything but the user settings prevents 90% of the stuttering I would otherwise experience. I chalk part of that up to the HDD itself. Haitachis are beats. @.@

[Coldfire]

4mb Ram

Woah how are you even able to boot? Just 4MB RAM?! D:
Even my 486DX had more than that!

[origamikitsune]

I lied. I'm not playing on a i5. I'm a 386. But hey, I have the math co-processor, so I have a leg up on all you other bozos! :P Obviously I meant GB. Silly me, that's like the fifth time I've typed 4mb instead of 4gb on these forums ><

[DAOWAce]

[*]Resolution: 1600*1200
[*]Monitor: 40" Proscan HDTV

Mistake?

I wasn't aware 1080p TVs could run in 4:3 resolutions, let alone ones with more vertical space than they can display.

[Coldfire]

Mistake?

I wasn't aware 1080p TVs could run in 4:3 resolutions, let alone ones with more vertical space than they can display.

Well it's windowed mode it seems and this would work. But I guess a few lines might be missing(like 120) ;o

[Khalus]

Mistake?

I wasn't aware 1080p TVs could run in 4:3 resolutions, let alone ones with more vertical space than they can display.

Nah, I use the VGA port, instead of the HDMI, and the standard max resolution is 1600*1200. I've tried the HDMI and I don't like the way it looks, for some reason it just doesn't look right, might be the HDTV. Anyway, that and I don't like being forced into 1920*1080 with the HDMI being the max. Unable to force higher.

A few months ago, I used to use 1920*1200{forced}, but I built a new PC desk and the HDTV sits back further than it used to so I dropped my resolution to 1600*1200 so I could read it...lol

Apparently 4:3 is an option on this HDTV, and it works great...never had any issues with it, even in full screen. And oddly enough, I can also run 16:9 & 16:10 using 1600*1200 just fine too.

[PrettyPrincess]

Windows 7
AMD Phenom2 X4 3.4 ghz
4 gigs of memory
Radeon 5670 1gb

Settings
resolution: 1368x768
general draw quality: 8 (standard)
background draw quality: 5 (highest)
shadows: highest
AA: 8xQ MSAA

AO: Off
DoF: Off (card isn't good enough to have it on it seems ;
Textrue Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest