ATI Card compatibility issues!

[Drako]

Memory-Leak-Preformance-Issue This isn't the first time this problem showed itself. The last time was, can you guess it? Was the last time hunts was popular. Back when they gave us hunts and the ability to get sands/oils from them. Read that thread, its exactly the same issue. Check the dates when the thread started to die down. That was conveniently around the time they nerfed hunts. Or rather when they pushed myth out the door, and gave us poetics, and made it where no one wanted to do hunts. The issue nearly all but disappeared. Now hunts are back in a big way, and so is this issue. My Fiancee uses a AMD 6970 and has this problem as well. The work around in that thread does help some but the issue will still happen. I have a R9 290x and haven't experienced a crash. But sense 2.5 my GFX lag has went to about 30 FPS for the most part. I use to be 60+ even sitting in Mor Dhona.

Also idk why that thread is under resolved. If they put it in their because someone found a work around by disabling a option in FFXIV, then that was not the right thing to do. SE should work with ATI and get this issue fixed already. How long do we need to wait, until the DX11 client?

Well I forgot to mention this issue actually has changed sense that thread. It use to just freeze up for the most part, and rarely crashed. Usually what would happen is it would really freeze up bad for awhile, then when it finally got back to normal textures were missing all over the place. Certain npcs would be missing legs/arms, or entire mobs were invisible. But now it seems instead of the game simply recovering, and showing missing textures, it just crashes the game. Maybe someone at SE could use that knowledge to help them find out what the cause is.

Workaround: Enable LOD and LOD streaming. Issue goes away for the most part. If it doesnt, select standard laptop settings, and make sure those two LOD options are checked.

It's depressing when people that can run Elite dangerous, Crysis, Star Citizen, <insert any nextgen game> at 60FPS but can't seem to run this without disabling stuff.