[Question] CPU or GPU intensive?

[Mirage]

right now definitely more intense on GPU, its only singlethreaded game so you could have best CPU in the world and it still wont run 100%. My advice wait until 2.0 before upgraded as this game is poorly optimized to run on anything well. In 2.0 you should be able to play the game fine. As of right now the way its set up this game never utilizes more than 8 GB's of RAM, and I have yet to test out how much GPU power it uses but it never uses more than 10% of my GPU's power cause of a huge bottleneck.

I'm pretty sure FF14 can make use of several cores. I have 4 cores myself, which means 100% utilization of a single core would show up at 25% total CPU usage in task manager. I have however seen FF14 use around 50%, which would mean it makes use of either all of two cores, or one full core and half of two other cores. Or any other combination that adds up to 50% total.

I also think you'll find that the vast majority of current PC games do not use anywhere near 8 GB RAM.

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1920x1080 4xaa medium-high graphics settings, 30fps near uldah's aetheryte with a ton of characters on screen. blur because i am a paranoid mother fucker