Post your game settings tweaks

[nasomi]

With my dual GTX580's in SLI:

Resolution: 5760x1200
General Draw Quality: 8
Everything else: Max
AO & DoF: off

It's not that the game hates ATI cards. It's that they lack the balls that nVidia has.

Find your video card on this list:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Then compare it to the cards performance that you see people comparing high settings to, and perhaps you will see why you are only playing at medium settings. And the curve is exponential, low to medium may take +10 video card power, but medium to high may take +20 video card power.

[Zephir]

Gtx 590 OCed

Res: 1920x1080
GDQ: 8/9
Other set: MAX
AO:Off
DoF: On
Vsync: Forced ON


Framerate: 40-45 in Ul dah locked 60 in every other area^^

[Tman]

HIS 5770 here (oc'd just a touch)



Resolution: 1440x900 (i have a smaller monitor )
Multisampling: 4xAA
General Drawing: 10 (highest)
Background Drawing: 5 (high)
Shadows: Highest
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Disable Cutscene Effects: Off
Hardware Mouse: On
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest

unfortunately the best i get is constant 30 fps because i had to change it under system, if left alone i get pretty crazy fps spikes. Fights like ifrit with all that fire effect or multiple chaos thrusts do cause me to bog down to 22fps but other then that, beautiful

[Laraul]

FPS spikes are likely caused data being fetched from the HDD that isn't the disk cache.

Tip... if you are going to enable AA, leave "General Drawing" at 8 or less. Anything above 8 performs the same function as super sampling AA or SSAA. 2X, 4X, and 8xQ are MSAA.

You don't need a frame rate above 30FPS... better to have it locked at 30FPS than set to 60 with fluctuations.

Why are people disabling Depth of Field?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXGrSFrfYo4

[Zephir]

HIS 5770 here (oc'd just a touch)



Resolution: 1440x900 (i have a smaller monitor )
Multisampling: 4xAA
General Drawing: 10 (highest)
Background Drawing: 5 (high)
Shadows: Highest
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Disable Cutscene Effects: Off
Hardware Mouse: On
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest

unfortunately the best i get is constant 30 fps because i had to change it under system, if left alone i get pretty crazy fps spikes. Fights like ifrit with all that fire effect or multiple chaos thrusts do cause me to bog down to 22fps but other then that, beautiful

Set General drawing to 8 (over is a nonsense)