[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[AlexiaKidd]

I just had a PC built last week. I was told I could run FFXIV on max setting with this spec no prob and I tried and it struggles to hit 60FPS in empty area's and in towns drops to 20-30 FPS. Here is the spec:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper TX3
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD USB3
Memory: 8.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz XMS3 CL9
Hard Drives: Corsair 60GB Force SSD
Second hard drive: 2TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA Lightscribe
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 6970 2GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio Included
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus
PSU: 650W Corsair TX Ultra-Quiet

The only things installed on it atm is Windows 7 and FFXIV on the SSD, a friend came and overclocked it a few days ago and it made a slight difference. I have knocked some setting back down now to keep it running at a constant 60FPS but I was still very suprised I couldn't max it. I told the guys who built it and they were also shocked and offered to take a look at it because they thought there must be something wrong with the PC they built. They checked it over and everything was fine so they wanted to see it running FFXIV and they still couldn't understand why it couldn't run at 60FPS on max, they then said the game must have crappy optimisation and thought it was still in beta lol