OS X El Capitan - Mac Client Status

[Galadrium]

Curious to know how it worked for you and what Mac you have.

[Brianmj]

I haven't realized any performance improvements. But I'm on a 2013 mbp.

[Tessara]

I should branch out on these forums, since I only seem to post in Mac threads, but for what it's worth, I just noticed this new client last night. Had to re-download and re-install, but wow, what a difference. Huge leaps over the last time I tried it, which itself was a much better version than we had in June. For me, I'm seeing performance on par with the Windows client, with the only stutters right now when I'm running through a crowded city. But that can happen in Windows too.

For reference, I have a late 2012 iMac 27", 3.2 GHz i5, 24GB RAM, GeForce GTX 680MX (2GB), running 10.11.4.

[Ouria]

I should branch out on these forums, since I only seem to post in Mac threads, but for what it's worth, I just noticed this new client last night. Had to re-download and re-install, but wow, what a difference. Huge leaps over the last time I tried it, which itself was a much better version than we had in June. For me, I'm seeing performance on par with the Windows client, with the only stutters right now when I'm running through a crowded city. But that can happen in Windows too.

For reference, I have a late 2012 iMac 27", 3.2 GHz i5, 24GB RAM, GeForce GTX 680MX (2GB), running 10.11.4.

I have an iMac with the same configurations as you although 8gb ram less. Before this update my 2014 rMBP with Intel Iris Pro performed better than my iMac where I could play the game with 20-30fps on standard setting for laptop. While my iMac usually stayed below 20fps no matter the setting. This update didn't do much for my rMBP, for the iMac however it made a huge difference. At high settings the fps usually stays around 40 fps although it can vary with 20fps up and down depending on how crowded the place is.

[Reih]

Got an e-mail from the SE store with no info at all except that they will resume sales on february.

**Updated and a new e-mail has been sent with a working link**

[Reih]

Well seems we finally got an official answer for us mac users. It's still gonna be a "middle-ware" port. Unless there's an update I'm missing or a reinstall I should be doing I don't see a big change on my mac. Any feedback from other mac users? Also wondering if Metal ever got used at all.

[Felmyst]

Lol mac...please

[Galadrium]

It is still not going to be a native Mac client. Here are the new recommendations.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...82dd284b405a2f

[DracotheDragon]

it is also going to run in 900p only and i have a 2560 x1440 screen, so if i want to run it full screen or even full size at the 4 k size it will either crash or give me slow downs :/ know what would be insainly helpful to mac users, a softwehre that could be used to test a "BENCHMARK" if you will, since they seem to have very spisific requirements for it, my new 2015 imac can run ARK on the epic settings and i can play a bunch of games in 4K with little to no issue but this game using cider is locking me to 900p while my ps4 will have it at 1080?

[Blayde]

Were any actual improvements made or just released requirements?