Optimal Settings on my Toshiba Qosmio Laptop? Any Tips?

[Mihalis]

Hello guys, I have an Toshiba Qosmio i7 Laptop. It has 4gb mem. 1.5gb Video Card (geforce gtx 460m). 1.7mhz proc. (turbo boost to 2.94mhz.). and a few others i cant recall off the top of my head. I was curious of the settings for FFXIV? What can i run on it? which settings, if any, can i have on highest, or high. ambient occlusion? depth-of-field? Draw-Distance? Screen Resolution, or Windowed? any help at all would be appreciated. thanks again.

[origamikitsune]

For best performance run full-screen, Ambient Occlusion off, Anti Aliasing off. Start with everything at standard / medium and see how it runs. Work up from there until you find a group of settings that works for you. Do not increase "General Draw Quality" over 8 (which may overwork your processor and possibly cause damage.) I suggest leaving AA off until you find what you want, then try it with varying degrees of AA. Each computer is different, and other programs and services you have running in the background can alter what settings your system can handle, so there isn't really a "Set" group of settings.

[Coldfire]

Texture quality and filtering should definately be high/highest, hardware cursor enabled, window mode if you plan to browse the internet while playing (alt-tab in fullscreen = crash), depth-of-field on if your eyes can take it :P, ambient occlusion off (looks bad anyway), multisampling 2x, general drawing 8, background 3 or 4, shadow standard or high (if crispy shadows are important for you).
Be aware that being in town the HDD is the bottleneck and you will ALWAYS have stuttering unless you have a PCIe SSD.
Outside of town the GPU has most work. So test your graphical settings where lots of mobs run around and a big landscape(maybe even in combat).