[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Sinzfeldt]

What exactly are you looking for in a cliff? Rainbows?

They're bloody cliffs.

You clearly have no standards, let me guess you play all games on low?

[Malakhim]

You clearly have no standards, let me guess you play all games on low?

Well if by standard, you mean something that exists in this plane of reality(I.E. a scraggly gray cliff), then I guess I don't.

[AngryNixon]

This game is very poorly optimized as I'm sure has been mentioned a few times already.

FFXIV needs to stop touching my computer inappropriately... it already has nightmares in the middle of the night where the fan starts revving to max for no apparent reason, I figure he must be having night terrors... poor little guy.

[MonsieurVerde]

1) You must have bad eye-sight because it is ANYTHING in front of you it is just most noticeable on LLs cliffs/buildings etc. Unless you are practically blind you can NOT miss it and that is the reason it is an issue.

2) You need to watch task manager more.

3) Go play some other games, read a few tech sites then get back to me about how the only gpu optimisation that should be done is for the 2% of people that use dual gpus.

I See no issues at all in Limsa. Yes there is that curtain effect but I don't see any rough textures on my side of the pond.

Task Manager doesn't contain info about the GPU. How much of it is being used is no indication of "Optimisation". As far as memory goes...this game stores nearly everything in Memory, woohoo.

@Nixon, how is your GPU fan suddenly revving up for no reason?

[Elkwood]

I don't think it is, as the last several nVidia drivers have had odd issues with FFXI.


Your system has major cooling issues if you need to run an air conditioner for the sake of keeping the PC cool at any time, much less 24/7. Something tells me your PC is running hotter than it should even when you're not playing games.

Nah my PC is not running hotter then it should be, as I stated numerous times heat is only an issue with FFXIV. When I power my PC on my CPU temp is 24C idle, when XIV is running it is 32C. I have swapped cases from a Raidmax to a Corsair 800D re-thermal pasted everything with IC Diamond 24 paste. The only thing I have not done is swapped out the stock fan on my GPU. The GPU really does seem to be working hard when playing XIV and that is it. This is the only game I have seen those temperatures from, so in reality it must be an issue with the way XIV is rendering and storing things in memory.

[Sinzfeldt]

I See no issues at all in Limsa. Yes there is that curtain effect but I don't see any rough textures on my side of the pond.

Task Manager doesn't contain info about the GPU. How much of it is being used is no indication of "Optimisation". As far as memory goes...this game stores nearly everything in Memory, woohoo.

@Nixon, how is your GPU fan suddenly revving up for no reason?

I never said i had rough textures, it is the LOD "curtain effect". And go read some techsites/windows 101 i was referring to the lack of full CPU core utilisation in task manager not anything to do with gpu usage lmao. Don't try be cocky when you are clueless, it doesn't work.

[Arcell]

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.

[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.