PS3 Graphics

[Ethari]

The Dev team has stated that they are specifically Optimizing the new Engine to be optimized for PS3 while maintaining the ability to up the Specs on PC.

Basically what it boils down to is. This game will look a little better than it does now on standard PC settings on PS3, but only PC will be able to push it up to Very High settings.

This is really the answer that I was looking for. Even if I am able to switch models, I may still consider purchasing a PS3 for other games and ffxiv as well.

[Jinko]

This is really the answer that I was looking for. Even if I am able to switch models, I may still consider purchasing a PS3 for other games and ffxiv as well.

Wow you don't own a PS3, you know this generation of consoles is almost over right ? /jk

[Asmeret]

Wow you don't own a PS3, you know this generation of consoles is almost over right ? /jk

I actually bought a PS3 "just to have one". All I do is use it for Netflix/Hulu+. Hopefully it'll get some more use when FFXIV gets it's PS3 release... Although I already play on my TV and use a controller....

[Ethari]

I'm aware, but now that the systems are rounding themselves out, I'd like to go back and enjoy some of the ps3 exclusives that I missed. I enjoy my 360 and pc way more, so I've stuck to them for the longest time.

[Dibria]

@Ethari - Ditto, I've had the chance to pick up a PS3 but with the exception of a handful of exclusives I've never felt I've missed out on anything, but I will probably pick one up before vs. XIII comes out (if it ever does) and play through Uncharted etc.

[Signy]

Not really on topic but yesterday i get a Ati HD7950 and FFXIV run almost at the same speed as with my HD4850. I guess on 2.0 they will fix this with the new engine.

[Dibria]

That suggest your graphics card isn't the bottleneck - assuming you didn't upgrade the rest of your system with it.

[Signy]

Well i have a AMD 955, 8gb of ram and two WD 640gb on raid 0 that tops on 200mb/s of read/write. My cpu playing FFXIV is around 50% load and the GPU goes from 30% (outside ul'dah) to 90% (on ul'dah).

I tested and i tryed chaging a lot of configuration and nothing change the fact that i have 30fps~ on ul'dah. I test my new GPU with a few others games (MW3 and AC:L) and they run flawlessly with all settings maxed (even AA @ x8).

[Dibria]

Strange, I have never really noticed a performance difference in or around ul'dah so I've never bothered to check what my usages and I'm running a substantially less powerful card (560ti OC) - that said I'm not running the game at absolute max settings.

I did notice a substantial performance increase when I moved my install to an SSD though, I think it relates to when you load an area full of people the game loads all the armor and weapon models off disk so your frame buffer size makes no difference to performance. Raid 0 is fast but 200mb/s sounds fast for two even top of the line drives in random read/writes, is that sequential performance? If so that isn't what the game will get when loading resources off disk.

In case that sounded condescending I will just say here I'm not trying to be, I'm doing some upgrades and am genuinely curios as to where the bottlenecks happen.

[Signy]

Yes, is sequential reads, on random reads i get something between 100 and 150mb/s depending on the file size, anyway i notice when it load characters that i get a little freeze on the img but it don't happend again after it load all the characters (i guess that leaves the models on memory). I'm about to buy a SSD to put FFXIV and Tera there. Yesterday i tried a few ati drivers to see if it was that that was making it go slower and nothing change, i tried 12.1 (the one that come with the GPU on a cd) and 12.2 pre cert.

I guess i'll have to wait to 12.2 proper release.

BTW i'm using fraps to check the fps.