[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Elkwood]

I have GTX460-SLi and my temps dont go over 65 degrees and am running 16xQ CSAA everything maxed beside drawing quality and Ambient Occlusion.
And Am running in a 800D with their factory fans nothing more nothing less.
And if you wonder I live in Central America where temps of 20-35 degrees under a roof are normal

you sir are full of it. I have a GTX 470 in a 800D case and even with an aftermarket fan I hit 50C, I want to know what GTX460 you have because if it is a EVGA using a stock cooler I know you are full of it... if it is a Gigabyte which has an aftermarket fan built on running at 100% ok I can see those temps.

[Elkwood]

It has been 1 month since we received a reply for a Dev I would like to know the status of this issue so if a Mod could please respond it would be appreciated.

[Lavinia]

I have the MSI Hawk GTX460 and I dont overclock them. That card is famous that it can be overclocked a lot cause it has great design on its cooling department

http://img43.imageshack.us/f/tempsm.png/

Oh and btw it cant be seen but the second fan speed can jump to 70-75% because its the card that gets the less airflow that's why when the room is at 30 degrees it can run 10 degrees more hot than the 1st card

[Elkwood]

I have the MSI Hawk GTX460 and I dont overclock them. That card is famous that it can be overclocked a lot cause it has great design on its cooling department

yeah it ships with an aftermarket cooler that's why

[Soukyuu]

Well now, I was just typing out a big ol' reply to this and I just had to misclick and have my entire post erased, so I'm just going to leave you with this nutshelled version.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc

Windows 7 > Vista > XP. 50%+ DX10 capable. FFXIV made with consoles in mind, not PCs. Consoles severely outdated with current and upcoming hardware, holding multi-platform games back, especially FFXIV; but then again it's made by a developer who has only made console games their entire career.

I'm angry at losing my post, yay.

I'm glad xp users finally started to think and move on. XP was a good windows OS, but it is way too old.
I don't think the PS3 version was at fault for FFXIV being DX9 though, PS3 doesn't support any DX version so it shouldn't matter.
Like I said in another post, in SE videos (like the imho silly "SE HQ infiltration" one where they showed Miqo'te), they were still using XP. If they develop on PCs running XP, then it's not a surprise they don't use anything above DX9.

[Dhalmel]

I'm glad xp users finally started to think and move on. XP was a good windows OS, but it is way too old.
I don't think the PS3 version was at fault for FFXIV being DX9 though, PS3 doesn't support any DX version so it shouldn't matter.
Like I said in another post, in SE videos (like the imho silly "SE HQ infiltration" one where they showed Miqo'te), they were still using XP. If they develop on PCs running XP, then it's not a surprise they don't use anything above DX9.

The PS3's RSX GPU is just a modified Geforce 7800, which is a DX9 GPU.

[Ilean]

The PS3's RSX GPU is just a modified Geforce 7800, which is a DX9 GPU.

Still, DirectX is a MS API, while the GPU capabilities might be the same that's where the similarities stop.

Point being, they could have gone DX10/11 and still limit themselves to DX9 level features.

PC AAA games will support more than 1 branch of DX, I want to believe that the only reason for FF14 being DX9 is its troubled development, and that it is in SE plans to bring the engine up once things are more stable...

[Soukyuu]

The PS3's RSX GPU is just a modified Geforce 7800, which is a DX9 GPU.

As far as i know, PS3's Cell Processor can be programmed to do different work, so I thought it takes care of the GPU role too. Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that PS3 is running on their own OS, not Windows. No windows, no directX, no relevance.

[Micrll]

The problem with the PS3 if I remember right is not the graphics oomph directly or the CPU speed, its tiny amount of ram thats in it, which is the supposed reason for all the copy-pasted terrain.

[Elkwood]

The problem with the PS3 if I remember right is not the graphics oomph directly or the CPU speed, its tiny amount of ram thats in it, which is the supposed reason for all the copy-pasted terrain.

Except for the fact the game tends to use over 1gb of Ram in every instance you run it. I would tend to believe optimization for PS3 has not even taken place yet as PS3 only has 512mb of Ram. This Game currently from a programming standpoint has to many floating memory points, errors etc. for its own good. I am not sure if/when SE is going to fix this, but they need to because it is truly a overabundance on our PC Machines.