[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Elkwood]

A lot of this arguing is fairly pointless. It's a well-known fact that FFXIV is poorly optimized, has been since beta. I love the game and even I can see it, there's a lot to be done in this area. However I don't see them getting to this until after the large battle update simply because the optimization isn't the highest priority at the moment.

Arcell, this isn't a topic designed to do anything but get acknowledgment from the Devs that they are aware this is an issue and needs to be addressed. I can understand the large battle update needing to be done, however this was brought up to many times in beta and still completely ignored. My hope is to garner acknowledgment from a Mod or Dev and to get status updates from them as they are working on it.

The problem is and always has been PC development with SE takes a back burner approach, it happened in FFXI and I do not want to see it in FFXIV

[Sinzfeldt]

My hope is to garner acknowledgment from a Mod or Dev and to get status updates from them as they are working on it.

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[Arcell]

Right I totally get that, I was just putting a few things into perspective. I was just simply stating that while I'm sure they're aware and working on it, other things do have a higher priority. I certainly see this being one of their next big projects. Honestly I don't know how they couldn't be aware of it lol. Also it seems at this point the community reps for our forum are still waiting on replies for other things so it may be a bit before we see any kind of acknowledgement here.

[Galamantyl]

I am in favor of any game design not using mostly the CPU to generate graphics like a former title I can think of. /cough

I am in favor of graphics.

I am strongly against my computer having a seizure because it can't keep up with the graphics.

[Aistaraina]

An acknowledgement of it would be nice, yes, but I feel the need to point out most users are saying FFXIV is using somewhere between 1-2GB of RAM. A PS3 only has 512MB, so they MUST be aware of the issue. The game in it's current state won't run on a PS3.

[Elkwood]

Ok i just went out and dropped another 70 USD on a better cooler for my GPU, I can confirm a 40C drop in temp across the board on my GPU while playing XIV so far. Will check it in some Behests and during leves tonight, I can say the Zalman cooler so far appears to be worth it.

Also seems when OC my Card to 750/1500/1701 mhz with the new cooler and setting AA to 8xQ MSAA my card is actually now running at 43C which is even better then the 46C I got Stock with out doing any OC and leaving my game at 2x AA...

[Sinzfeldt]

Ok i just went out and dropped another 70 USD on a better cooler for my GPU, I can confirm a 40C drop in temp across the board on my GPU while playing XIV so far.

You really do make me lol, a custom cooler isn't the cure to all ills. Guess what, i can achieve 50c too if i set my gpu fan to 80%.

[Kazahashi]

Maybe someone here can help me, considering people are talking about how taxing the game is....

When the game first launched, I bought the CE, and had the game maxed in everything except for Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field....and then I turned Depth of Field on and it still ran just fine....I quit in November to give the game time to get fixed and went and played WoW with my Dad (long story, but in short, it helped me find him again after not talking for a long time....and it was the only way I knew I could get in contact with him)....anyways, so I came back last week, I reformatted my hard-drive, did a clean Win7 install, which is what I was running before....updated the game AND all my drivers fully and got all the up to date stuff....and the game runs WAY worse then it did before....to the point that I can only run it acceptably on Standard now across the board....

It's weird as hell, and has me terribly confused because I had bought this computer (built it myself, not pre-built) specifically FOR this game.....did something happen with the patches that I'm not aware of, or should I roll back my ATI drivers for the older ones? I know my way around computers....a lot, but this has me incredibly confused, and slightly more than irritated. Thanks in advance for the replies and/or tips.

I posted this in the Tech Support forums too, but you all seem fairly active in this thread, so I figured I'd give it a shot here as well.

[Sinzfeldt]

Game performance shouldn't have degraded THAT much, you can try a different driver but it shouldn't make too much difference. What is your setup?

[Kazahashi]

AMD Phenom II x4 965 (with an Arctic Cooler 7 Pro)
6 GB DDR3
ATI RADEON 5850
1 TB WD 7200 RPM HDD

That's really all that matters when it comes to the game....it's really freakin' weird though, and makes me think I should try wiping the computer again....I dunno.