Need help with Graphics Settings

[Laraul]

Yes it should...

[Laraul]

Should run fairly well.
I am running on an AGP card HD3850 ATI on medium/high settings without problems
2 gig system memory ddr1 and a quadcore processor.
Just gotto adjust some settings like above what he said :
ambient oclussion /dept of field and shodows off and dont run on max resolution
Main problem is the HD stuttering.. i got a fast HD.. but its realy bad the loading in game and the prices for an SSD are rediculous.
I am thinking of putting on a raid on my ancient 2 non sata ports lol since sata doesnt make the drives faster anyway

Are you able to upgrade to 4GB of system RAM? That has will likely reduce the amount of HDD swapping.

[Coldfire]

The GPU might be a bit slow but it should be able to run the game at least. Gamers should aim for something with a 7 or 8 as the 2nd digit like HD5850. Those go from 100-230 bucks and need an extra power connector so I would double check the PSU before buying one.

[wolfsspirit]

win7 64 bit
playing ffxiv .. FF only uses 500 mb memory , whats the use of having 4 gig if it wont use more as half a gig anyway
all the time i play ffxiv on win7 , my memory usage does not come above 1.2 gig

maybe because i play windowed i dont know.. cant play full screen because within a hour the game exe will crash

by the way my old 650PSu gave up and now i am using the standard 300W psu wich seems to be more as enough and yes i need an external powerconnector too on my graphic card

[Coldfire]

FFXIV will never use more than 512MB RAM with the current client. PS3-limitations... seriously
More RAM doesn't help at all in this game. Got a laptop with 4GB and a desktop with 8GB and there's absolutely no advantage. They didn't even set large address awareness. Imo games shouldn't unload anything unless they get out-off-memory errors. Would be nice if the user could define the maximum memory usage before stuff is unloaded. Async prefetch would also be nice to have. Hopefully 2.0 will have that or it will be a stuttering failure too.

[wolfsspirit]

<< considering a ramdrive when i build my new system.. if its not using any memory at all .. you could as well use the remaining ram to create a virtual ram-HD and have ultra fast speed loading and times

[Coldfire]

<< considering a ramdrive when i build my new system.. if its not using any memory at all .. you could as well use the remaining ram to create a virtual ram-HD and have ultra fast speed loading and times

You will need at least 16GB then :P
Might as well get some PCIe flash memory or an SSD.

[wolfsspirit]

memory is cheaper :P besides it will come in handy playing other games offline
sdd is slower as normal ddr3 memory too only drawback is if your get a system crash.. all in memory is lost lol unless you autobackup memory every now and then to hd
the new mainboards support up to 128 memory , i think 32 gig will be great and not expensive at all.
The only drawback is you need to load the total image of the game in memory each system (re)start.. then again i mostly use Hybernate so its a lot faster

[Coldfire]

4GB is like 30 bucks... means 32GB is 240 bucks <.<
I'd say a 120GB SSD for 140 bucks is less pricey :P

[Laraul]

4GB is like 30 bucks... means 32GB is 240 bucks <.<
I'd say a 120GB SSD for 140 bucks is less pricey :P

Yeah I got enough of your "must have SSD to play game stuff..." You kept contradicting me in this thread. Of course I never asked you too try downloading the RAMmap utility which shows "file data in RAM by file." I assume you haven't done this. You said..

Please stop spreading nonsense on the support forums that could lead to people buying junk. Windows will NOT fetch files for FFXIV into memory and that video shows an empty area with no fighting and an outdated benchmark. If you read reports of people on the forums you would know this.

I do not want an argument but you are being unrealistic and assume that the way you've done it is the only way. I thought I should point out no PS3 version presently exists so your "PS3 limitations" argument is nonsense. You could say "PS1 limitations" too and it would carry about the same amount of weight.