pc upgrades?

[Terann]

recently got FF-XIV and would really like to play in high settings, this is what I have now, what can I upgrade to that I would allow me to turn up my graphics?
thanks in advance


Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 64bit (build 7601)
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 960T Processor
Number of Processors Logical Core Count 4 Physical Core Count 4

Physical Memory 8191.285MB
Virtual Memory 2047.875MB

DirectX Version DirectX 11
Graphic Device(s) AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
+Device \\.\DISPLAY1
+Chip ATI display adapter (0x68BA)
+Maker ATI Technologies Inc.
+Video Memory 1010.422 MB
+Shared Video Memory 3839.643 MB
+DAC Type Internal DAC(400MHz)
+Display Mode 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
+Vertex Shader 3.0
+Pixel Shader 3.0
+Vertex Texture Supported

[slipmac]

looks good to me i would just wait till its been optimized.
i run a windows 7 64 bit
P-i7 quad core 860 @ 2.8ghz -- (dont know the amd equivalent)
Logical Core Count 8 Physical Core Count 4

6 gig mem
terabite sata hdd
with an ati HD5800

and run the game at 1080p

looks like you already have better then me. so i dont know what more you want to turn up ?
higher AA?

im going to guess your cpu

[Coldfire]

Lol the CPU is perfectly fine. For higher settings in this game only a GPU-upgrade helps. Any quadcore with more than 2.6Ghz is fine for highest settings. Getting a fast SSD helps with the stuttering when many players are around.

[Terann]

at the moment if I turn up the graphics in-game it gets so laggy that I cant move so I have been running with all my settings at standard.

[syntaxlies]

recently got FF-XIV and would really like to play in high settings, this is what I have now, what can I upgrade to that I would allow me to turn up my graphics?
thanks in advance


Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 64bit (build 7601)
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 960T Processor
Number of Processors Logical Core Count 4 Physical Core Count 4

Physical Memory 8191.285MB
Virtual Memory 2047.875MB

DirectX Version DirectX 11
Graphic Device(s) AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
+Device \\.\DISPLAY1
+Chip ATI display adapter (0x68BA)
+Maker ATI Technologies Inc.
+Video Memory 1010.422 MB
+Shared Video Memory 3839.643 MB
+DAC Type Internal DAC(400MHz)
+Display Mode 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
+Vertex Shader 3.0
+Pixel Shader 3.0
+Vertex Texture Supported

unless i overlooked it you didnt mention your harddrive. anyway, if you dont already, put a sata3 solid state hard drive in. You can get a 60-100 gb one for pretty cheap and put you os and games on it and use the other one for media. If you got some extra bucks get 2 of them and run them in raid0. Its like meth for you pc.

[Coldfire]

at the moment if I turn up the graphics in-game it gets so laggy that I cant move so I have been running with all my settings at standard.

You can increase shadow detail, texture quality and texture filtering to highest. AO and DoF should be off. General drawing quality doesn't really increase your quality. Instead it just scales the rendering resolution(8=display mode resolution). Anything higher requires multiple GPUs or a very very fast one.

[syntaxlies]

also i have an amd quad core 3.0 that i had overclocked to 3.8, it works fine normally but ffxiv crashes on it. I scaled it back to 3.6 and never had a problem again.

[Terann]

this is the hard drive info that comes up.
Storage C:\ Hard Disk Drive Total Disk Space 1385.993GB Free Disk Space 1329.617GB
Storage D:\ Hard Disk Drive Total Disk Space 11.172GB Free Disk Space 1.365GB

and I think it is WDC WD15 EARS-60MVWB) SATA

[Terann]

You can increase shadow detail, texture quality and texture filtering to highest. AO and DoF should be off. General drawing quality doesn't really increase your quality. Instead it just scales the rendering resolution(8=display mode resolution). Anything higher requires multiple GPUs or a very very fast one.

Giving this a try what should I be setting the "Multisampling" at?

Thees settings are working great thanks for every ones help

[Coldfire]

I would set the multisampling to 2. Seems to be the fastest and safest mode for now. Multisampling can cause errors though depending on the AMD CC gaming settings(like bugged textures).