[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Ilean]

You'd be surprised how many HD5870's (or better) or GTX 470's (or better) are out here that can handle the game just fine on 1920x1080 and tons of cards that can do it on lower resolutions...
The game could be more optimized... but most people still run the game fine.. the main gripe being that it could run better...
and you wouldn't need a GTX 460 or better to even play the game

With AO on?

[Rydin]

With AO on?

I don't have AO on, Not really that big a deal for me honestly

[Jynx]

With AO on?

Ambient Occlusion is a resource hog for almost anything it's in.

[Darkshade]

I just feel that it's odd that XIV is the only game I can't near max out. I can't even run XIV with AA. Can run Crysis/Crysis 2 and similar high specification PC titles at 1920x1080 with 4x+ FSAA with all settings on ultra/high at 50-60 FPS and I have to run XIV at like 3/4 resolution with no AA and still get visual lag spikes and wildly inconsistent frame rates especially in city states. Average FPS in XIV is like 25-45.

Something tells me it just isn't optimized. I mean it's a really pretty game but I don't think it's realistically pushing that many more polygons than some of these other high specification PC titles.

For reference my machine is a Phenom II @ 4.1GHz, 1GB 5850, 8GB DDR3, Win7 x64.

I'm assuming the 5850 is my bottleneck for XIV, but it destroys just about everything else. I'll try and upgrade someday if XIV ever makes it's recovery. Really hope it does.

[Rydin]

I just feel that it's odd that XIV is the only game I can't near max out. I can't even run XIV with AA. Can run Crysis/Crysis 2 and similar high specification PC titles at 1920x1080 with 4x+ FSAA with all settings on ultra/high at 50-60 FPS and I have to run XIV at like 3/4 resolution with no AA and still get visual lag spikes and wildly inconsistent frame rates especially in city states. Average FPS in XIV is like 25-45.

Something tells me it just isn't optimized. I mean it's a really pretty game but I don't think it's realistically pushing that many more polygons than some of these other high specification PC titles.

For reference my machine is a Phenom II @ 4.1GHz, 1GB 5850, 8GB DDR3, Win7 x64.

I'm assuming the 5850 is my bottleneck for XIV, but it destroys just about everything else. I'll try and upgrade someday if XIV ever makes it's recovery. Really hope it does.

You can't really compare an FPS with an MMO...
FFXIV is poorly optimized though...
The best comparisons would be Oblivion (Groundbreaking when it was new), Witcher 2 (Great looking outdoor Environments), Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (Excellent use of lighting and shadows)

[Ilean]

Yup, I don't think AO is worth it either, just it seemed to me that this guy who was complaining wants everything maxed.

[Rydin]

Yup, I don't think AO is worth it either, just it seemed to me that this guy who was complaining wants everything maxed.

Yea, so getting 50-60fps without it... the game would still be playable and fine with it...

[Darkshade]

I'm not using AO. In the future I'd like to if I can get more than a consistent 30FPS.

[Kaizlu]

You'd be surprised how many HD5870's (or better) or GTX 470's (or better) are out here that can handle the game just fine on 1920x1080 and tons of cards that can do it on lower resolutions...
The game could be more optimized... but most people still run the game fine.. the main gripe being that it could run better...
and you wouldn't need a GTX 460 or better to even play the game

5870? Madness!!!

I'm actually running the game on 1920x1080 with a HD 5770 and I really have no problems at all. Running with 4x MSAAA, but with AO off (I didn't really noticed a difference). Even so, for some reason I do believe the game can run better and as others have stated, the game does heat up my GPU faster than the other games I run (the most recent one would be The Witcher 2).

[Zephir]

Probably a lot of card can woek well with FFXIV....with a little setting work..but.

For me real problem is with HI-END card and higher settings.

I have now a Gtx 590 and without AA (at 1920x1080 i don't need AA) and without AO....if i max all other setting i encounter a lot of problem like slowing down....

And it's not acceptable that a multi GPU card can't blow this game...

A little more optimization can definitively be welcomed