Need help with Graphics Settings

[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.

[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.