[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[God]

This issue will be a deal breaker for me in the future.

My gaming laptop is losing it's lifespan by a wide margin from all the heat this game generates.

Please fix! Thanks for the follow up!

[MonsieurVerde]

Verde come on man you cant honestly sit here and tell me 85C is Normal on a stock GPU. No other game has even gotten my GPU remotely close to that. Now how can you say it is not taxing the system over abundantly but yet not say it is the most taxing game on the market today because of all the processing it apparently has to do. You are just contradicting yourself here, which to me right now is making no sense.

Key Word STOCK. Everyone knows referance cards have really bad coolers. It is creating so much heat because it is being used fully. What's not to understand?

I merely said it wasn't the most taxing game "In History". There are far less optimised games, like Crysis. >_>

[Elkwood]

Hey everyone,

What everyone's saying about FFXIV currently being a large burden on the PC is something we've been seeing on our end as well. We brought this up with the development team and hope to have a comment from them soon.

Thank you for the response, this was all we asked for. Please keep us apprised it is much appreciated

[Elkwood]

Key Word STOCK. Everyone knows referance cards, have really bad coolers.

that's not the point, the point is it is still the game causing the burden as was admitted moments ago by SE

[Vicious]

Maybe add an option to switch between the Alpha look and the Beta look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGkhFu9mXPY

[Nuru]

I'm running a CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor and a Radeon HD 6850 GPU. Running the game above Standard settings and have not experienced any heating what-so-ever. I think giving the specs of your PCs would really help SE out in resolving this, its always good to know where the problems are.

[Elkwood]

I'm running a CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor and a Radeon HD 6850 GPU. Running the game above Standard settings and have not experienced any heating what-so-ever. I think giving the specs of your PCs would really help SE out in resolving this, its always good to know where the problems are.

Nuru I find that hard to believe, I recommend you check your CPU and GPU temps using MSI Afterburner and CPUz but I have no issues providing hardware specs

AMD Phenom 1090t with Zalman CPU Cooler
Asus M4a87 + Board
8GB DDR 2 Ram
EVGA GTX 470 Grphics Card with Zalman GPU cooler
Corsair 800D Case
Corsair 650w PSU

GPU with Stock cooler was running at 85C
GPU with Zalman is running at 50C

This game only seems to affect the GPU not really the CPU, I am anxiously awaiting SE results and statement as a Community Mod responded to the topic.

[AuctionGirl]

I am so happy to see some kind of response from someone @ SE.

Thank you for your comment!

[Sinzfeldt]

I am so happy to see some kind of response from someone @ SE.

Thank you for your comment!

Did i miss something here?

Edit: yes i did, i hope he brought up Limsas ugly ass cliffs with them too!

[Kazahashi]

What I don't understand, at all, about this game....is this:

http://kotaku.com/#!5789112/how-powe...good/gallery/1

The Witcher 2 looks amazing, to be quite honest, and granted it IS a single player game rendering only a limited amount of things, etc etc etc.....but the system requirements, and even the recommended ones are....leaps and bounds better to what you HAVE to have to get XIV running even remotely well....the whole engine is just not optimized at all, and feels very raw....in addition to the taxation on the hardware, things need to be done with the engine itself.