Ever wonder why this game heats up GPU's so much?

[Andrien]

Hopefully your annoying sig will be addressed too.

Lets not get off topic here, because I'm easily annoyed by immature post. Yours is a prime example.

[bojangles]

Lets not get off topic here, because I'm easily annoyed by immature post. Yours is a prime example.

While immature he is correct. I nearly has a seizure trying to write this POS)*#&*!$&)#!JJF! M1f jh

[Winterclaw]

Furthermore, I really can't believe they would do something like this in their own game.... its quite amateur design.

Welcome to the world of FFXIV fandom, where everything but the sound and graphics are amateur designed.

[Winterclaw]

I actually checked this out today to see if the water makes much of a difference on the frame-rate.

I went to the boat at Thanalan and tried looking straight at the water, what I noticed was the frame-rate sky-rocketed to a nice easy 60fps, lovely and smooth.

Then I spun the camera around to face away from the water and look up at the building, the moment the building came into view the frame-rate dropped down to 30-40 fps.

Then I looked back at the water and the frame-rate went back up, and slowly the boat started to move onto the camera from the right. The more of the boat came onto the screen, the lower the frame-rate went untill eventually it went down to the 30-40 fps I was getting from looking at the building.

I've also noticed the biggest spikes in frame-rate is caused from plants and bushes. So I don't think having water under the ground is actually the problem, I think it's how many polygons some parts of the enviroment are made from.

That's just what I think though.

Hmmm. Part of me wonders if it is the lighting model and the number of bounces they are using.

[Greencactaur]

Wow they better fix this x-x.

[El-Neko]

Or make it more optimized.

[ispano]

That's not a valid argument. I don't see any FPS counters on this screen shot. Are your eyes so good that you can actually see drops that do not make the FPS go below 24 images par second?

I know this post is on the 3rd page, but i've been away from my computer for a few days. Do you really think a person can't see the difference between 24 fps and say 40 fps? And the change between that? Because they can. The human eye doesn't "see" in FPS, it sees changes, and 24 fps looks different than 40 fps.