Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[Dubont]

1) I'd use Ambient Occlusion if it was implemented properly because it creatures the illusion that the game has some shadowing, but, of course, only those with dual 590's and a 5GHz 995x can run ambient occlusion at comfortable framerates. (maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit..)

you aren't far off. I run at mid-high settings and the second that I turn on AO, I can press my "move forward" key...go grab a glass of kool-aid, come back and my dude MIGHT have moved...

[Black_Rose]

you aren't far off. I run at mid-high settings and the second that I turn on AO, I can press my "move forward" key...go grab a glass of kool-aid, come back and my dude MIGHT have moved...

did you try AO lately?
i dunno but i've tried it with my GTX460's in SLI and it was working fine.
with highest settings possible ( besides general drawing quality which shouldn't be above 8) i only lost 5-10 FPS outside towns, so i had a stable 50~55 FPS on the fields.

i know that months back AO would've cause extreme FPS lose, but ever since around may/june it was working normaly for me.
maybe due to new Nvidia driver, maybe SE did something.

either way, i still don't use it at all, the difference isn't that big.