VIDEO GUIDE: Maximizing you FF14:ARR frame-rates

[Hanabira]

Its not about a system not being able to handle both aero and a game, but that aero does take up a fair amount of resources that could be used in the game. Especially for those of us who play on a laptop.

[TheWolfman]

bump bump, get this info out there

[LordSideKicks]

Bump for your effort

[Riv]

Awesome man, I love flux btw many thanks

I have no Aero I'm running win8.

PS: Just ignore the haters/trolls, at least someone is trying something positive it's just never good enough for some.

If you're running Windows 8, it's time to downgrade.

[Kahlane]

Thank you. This helped a lot.

[Xayoc]

Thank you. This helped a lot.

Kahlane! Greetings from Sargatanas :-) Welt, Luk, Krystyl, Tonytaru, and them are all on Gilgamesh in BG.

[Smartcat]

I just did what you said, will see what happens in game. I have trouble because sometimes npcs take a while to appear. It happens more then I wish it did. So we will see. Thx for the tips

[JamieLee]

as far as windows areo that gets disabled anytime you run a application in full screen in windows 7 and windows 8 is not effected by it do to the fact windows 8 does not have aero effects.... Kinda moot point considering most systems wont flinch with it on...
As for parking your cores first off you do not need a external app to do it with... Can be done form windows power management... alittle bit of info on parked cores

Windows sees all cpu HW threads as logical cpu's so a cpu with 4 cores and HT will be seen by windows as a processor having 8 logical cpus however when windows parks one thread of each core on such a system the actual HW core is not parked, just one thread of each core. For the HW core to be truly parked would require both threads of that core to be parked. So windows core parking is really HW thread parking. When one thread of a HW core is parked and the other is running that core cannot enter the higher c-states.

[JamieLee]

C6 does not need to be enabled for windows core parking as all windows core parking means is not scheduling the HW thread that is parked. Of course if there is a opportunity to park with power savings such as C6 all the better.

as far as seeing performance increase vs non increase is pretty much placebo.. Your prob seeing the increase from changing your power plan from balanced to high performance which allows the cpu to work at max speed without much intervention from c stat power management ...

you need to run each test 3 times and take the average of the 3 tests test 1 test 2 test 3 divide the lowest fps by the highest fps gets your actual real world fps... You can also do this via key frame counter... The lower frames lost the better the fps is which is a more accurate way to check performance fps.. as your not counting THE on screen fps your counting the frames lost or not lost... Least amount of frames lost = best performance.. which can differ from actual fps.

[Rose-Wild]

I run FF with my Laptop and this helped me get more stable FPS's
Thanks for the guide dude.