GPU getting EXTREMELY hot?

[Eunys]

40 fps everywhere. also my card surpasses the minimum requirements by a ton, meaning its FINE to play this game on, assuming i adjust graphics accordingly. what isnt fine is useless textures causing overwork on the card.

Your card for one is just hardly past the minimum system requirements. Shiny GTS 250 name is hiding a 9800 heart. As stated above by other posters all you can hope for if you are bent on not replacing it, is to clean it and put new themal compound on it as well as check your systems air flow. The game is hardly even a beta state it has it's issues but even then it's easy to get around in your situation with a $100 or less upgrade. I've posted before I run on two diffrent machines one with 2x 460 sli and a machine with a 580 with my house normally about 25-29c I don't see either systems GPU temps go above 75c.

[Fixy]

Your card for one is just hardly past the minimum system requirements. Shiny GTS 250 name is hiding a 9800 heart. As stated above by other posters all you can hope for if you are bent on not replacing it, is to clean it and put new themal compound on it as well as check your systems air flow. The game is hardly even a beta state it has it's issues but even then it's easy to get around in your situation with a $100 or less upgrade. I've posted before I run on two diffrent machines one with 2x 460 sli and a machine with a 580 with my house normally about 25-29c I don't see either systems GPU temps go above 75c.

what the bloody hell dont you understand. 9800s ran hot, period. and my fps is above 40 at average. THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH 500 DOLLAR GFX CARDS WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. polygon counts are way too high, im not here to seek your help because you are saying stuff that doesnt even matter, im trying to let devs know they need to tone down polygons in all regions.

try positioning yourself against a rock and seeing through the ground all the water that is MOVING that the card has to render while rendering texture on the mainland. most games dont have moving water underneath the ground, they're pure black or nothing.

[Geesus]

Shiny GTS 250 name is hiding a 9800 heart.

Please read this post Validates Euny's statement

Also, you JUST meet system requirements as mentioned above as well.

From FFXIV Lodestone page under the heading Required Specs:
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 series with 512 MB VRAM or equivalent

My Card 9600 GT

Your card 250 GTS

9800 GTX
Other then Cores, the specs on ALL of these cards is 90% identical. Now, I came on here on page one to give advice. Now I'm flaming you because you took the nice nature of fellow gamers and apparently more tech savvy PC gamers and BUILDERS and shat on them with your ... /rage or w/e you want to call it.

Regardless, either take the advice you got and have a better gaming experience, say thank you and move on or just don't ask for the advice if all you're going to do is get angry.