bottleneck performance?

[LunaSnowfield]

I believe you. I like to find out why, may be population difference on servers or mine is done during prime time. Two generation difference between processors can't double the performance. I'm using 16 GB of 2400Mhz DDR3 on my system.

My old computer was a I7 950 3.0 (stock speed) with a GTX 760 and in 1080p i was getting around 15-30fps in cities (specially mordhona). a few months ago i got a i7 4790k with the same GTX 760 and then my fps improved from 15-30 to 45-55.

This game doesnt need a extreme powerful card.

[GenJoe]

This game doesnt need a extreme powerful card.

Damn it!! That goes against every fiber of my gamer being!!

I intentionally have a cheap ass cpu (G3258) with a decent gpu (R9 270X) and FF14 has to be the ONE game that throws the curveball at me

[Shura]

Damn it!! That goes against every fiber of my gamer being!!

I intentionally have a cheap ass cpu (G3258) with a decent gpu (R9 270X) and FF14 has to be the ONE game that throws the curveball at me

If you don't mind me asking, have you run the Heavensward Benchmark and if so what score did you get? Thanks. Trying to build a budget gaming build for my GF to play FFXIV on and was wondering how the G3258 performs.

[GenJoe]

If you don't mind me asking, have you run the Heavensward Benchmark and if so what score did you get? Thanks. Trying to build a budget gaming build for my GF to play FFXIV on and was wondering how the G3258 performs.

Well, I don't have the benchmark software, but it's really not that bad in terms of performance, I run my PC a lot heavier than the average person. Dual monitors, a source of media (netflix/youtube/kodi) FF14, Chrome with about 6-7 tabs open at any time.. Then sometimes even WoW running simultaneously alongside FF14, it still gets playable frame rates (low settings everything)

20fps average with similar fashioned screenshot taken in Mor Dhona at Desktop (High) Settings. Note this is while running youtube on the other monitor, it does dip down to teens, sometimes spikes up to mid 20s

The only performance issue I can feel is that UI responds slowly, i.e. opening up inventory takes a second or two, running just the FF14 resolves the issue though.

It should be good enough to run the game maybe only trouble would be running frontlines, I did have trouble there previously with sprites not loading but I didn't try running without all the clutter, that probably would've fixed it..

I did do T5 without any issue, CT raids worked fine also.


Really though, I have run the game in a somewhat playable manner on my old Core 2 Quad rig with Radeon 5570 low profile card So you should have a field day with anything better than that as long as your girl friend isn't too picky about having Ultra crisp graphics

Funny little tidbit, I'm usually the first one to load content out of anybody I know (typically ~3 seconds) due to having a SSD and it's just really funny seeing my friend running his i5 and dual gpu crossfire lagging behind me when we go places

P.S. SS is taken on Jenova, typically less people hanging around Mor Dhona than other servers I imagine, but still crowded (quick headcount shows about 80 people, very roughly counted)
P.P.S. I didn't realize there was a Maximum graphics settings, that gives me ~13fps.

[Judge_Xero]

If you don't mind me asking, have you run the Heavensward Benchmark and if so what score did you get? Thanks. Trying to build a budget gaming build for my GF to play FFXIV on and was wondering how the G3258 performs.

I built a rig with the G3258. It ran the game pretty good overclocked to 4.2Ghz but the CPU will be constantly pegged at 99% which makes the FPS bounce around quite a bit which makes some areas pretty choppy.

I'd recommend getting at least an i5 even if it means spending less on a GPU. Can always turn down settings with a cheaper GPU, but that little Dual Core can only work so hard. I doubt it will make much difference with DX11 either since both cores are already maxed on DX9.

Edited: unless someone can chime in on how an i3 would fare as I've never tried one on this game, as they're pretty good value as well.

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I did try Overclocking my ram to 2000Mhz from 1600Mhz which in turn gave me about a 5 FPS difference when looking across the market, but it also made my CPU hit 90% usage in those instances (compared to 74%ish)

So for those steady 60 FPS I guess it would take the advantage of the i7 hyper-threading + fast ram.

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Would be interesting to see a comparison of scores on some of these rigs from running a "winsat mem" test in an Admin CMD prompt.

4670k @ 4.0Ghz -> Memory 2000Mhz 9-11-11-27
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.13
> Memory Performance 26033.07 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:06.19

4670k @ Stock -> Memory 1600Mhz 8-9-9-21
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.13
> Memory Performance 22455.55 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:06.41

[Judge_Xero]

My old computer was a I7 950 3.0 (stock speed) with a GTX 760 and in 1080p i was getting around 15-30fps in cities (specially mordhona). a few months ago i got a i7 4790k with the same GTX 760 and then my fps improved from 15-30 to 45-55.

This game doesnt need a extreme powerful card.

If you turn down your memory speed does it reduce your FPS? Maybe set it at 1600Mhz. (system memory, not GPU memory)