Current State Mac (June/2020)

[justinhuang]

I also run a mac with an eGPU My system is a late 2015 iMac, I also was experiencing issues with FPS as well as notices some graphical issues occasionally.

I started messing with the settings and under the Graphics settings, I turned the "Glare" off. By turning that off I am now running between 55 to 65 FPS and no more graphic issues. I was running in the low 40's prior to turning that off.

Maybe this will help you increase performance?

Cheers!

I will try that. Thank you for sharing

[justinhuang]

Square Enix ought to consider just building a full-fledged port for Apple silicon. Not only will it future-proof the game for Macs moving forward, but will also likely improve the experience significantly for intel-based macs running Big Sur or later. Not to mention open a pathway onto iOS devices.
Even starting with an iOS port and working it up to Mac via catalyst would give us something that would just work.

I hope they would take that into consideration but I guess numbers "kinda" influence their decisions.

[Eriane_Elis]

If I were you, I would install Windows 10, you don't have to register, the permanent trial is good. Then install custom signed drivers https://www.bootcampdrivers.com/ Make sure you read the instructions on how to do it because there's only the right way to do it and it's not just click and install.

The reason why you would want the custom signed bootcamp drivers is because Apple doesn't really give AF about it. Now you might ask.. Why would you play it on windows and not mac? Isn't a mac the faster OS? Well, not necessarily. There's a few reasons why but most importantly is that this is a Windows made game and it just works better on it. Plus DX12 support is even better!

On OSX I wasn't getting optimal frame rates and on windows with default drivers I was getting 16fps with 2K screen res set. After installing the drivers I got 60fps at 2k res. So it makes a huge difference.

It's worth the dual boot. I can't stand OSX anyways so I primary boot in windows on an imac, go figure :P

[VenKitsune]

No apologies needed. It’s not your fault. Much advice and recommendations from other players told me just like you too. Although I understand the circumstances, I just don’t want to give up without sharing feedbacks and experiences for other. If I have to migrate back to either ps4 or move completely to pc, I might as well just stop playing. Much of it are a big investment and I find hard to continue support products that doesn’t work well on my current system too. Not that I don’t like ffxiv, but I feel disappointed if they continue to do minimal polish on Mac

You say its too much of an investment...But a 2 year old mac is generally going to cost 3x more than a 1 year old, up to date PC. Apple simply charges outragous amounts of money for macs for the hardware they have so i really dont see your point about it being too much of an investment.