FFXIV and HD 6990

[Kurokikaze]

Judging by their posts in other threads - I'm calling stupidity.

[Elexia]

Ironically, AMD the same and sometimes pulls ahead for far cheaper than Intel processors.

People like to throw away money for marginal increases~

[Hikozaemon]

Ironically, AMD the same and sometimes pulls ahead for far cheaper than Intel processors.

People like to throw away money for marginal increases~

word! (wish i could autotranslate in forum lol) its so damn marginal now from the research i did a month ago that you'd be an idiot to waste money on the top of the line processor its just gonna be obsolete in 6mnths anyways lol. The one major upgrade processors need is the damn thermal paste already applied !!! dudes aint got experience painting objects w/ a brush like finger nails.

[Renshi]

Ah anyway, I use an iMac 27" with a Mobility Radeon 4850 at 1GB DDR5, Intel Core i7 quad 2.8GHz and 8GB RAM DDR3.
In the Bootcamp is installed a Win7 64bit, and I use MacFan to speed up fans in bootcamp.
Best game settings that I enjoy: 1920x1080, graphical 9 and background 5
DoF and AO off, texture highest and filtering standard.

Most common issues: Rain and bushes makes me stutter, and I also stutter when someone near teleports, sometimes.

[Onidemon]

i updated my main post edit#2

[snowstriker]

Whoa buddy, turn that shit down.

Can't just pop up on absolute MAX settings and expect it to run perfectly.

I have a GTX 480 and if I want 60 FPS then Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field need to be turned off and AA can't really be above 2x.

You're expecting too much from FFXIV, cuz if you've been around here for a while you know that FFXIV isn't very well optimized and tortures your computer.

[snowstriker]

Also I highly recommend taking that last part of Edit #2 out. It makes you sound immature and it's a useless threat.

[Black_Rose]

perhaps this might help you,
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1336578119

i had a GTX295 which is a dual GPU aswell, and while FFXIV runs well with 2 GTX460 in SLI it performed very badly with my GTX295.
worst 550€ i've ever spent in my life.

as for your strange noises, can't help you there, i know a few ppl running on 1-2x 5870's and they don't have those problems.

[Onidemon]

perhaps this might help you,
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1336578119

i had a GTX295 which is a dual GPU aswell, and while FFXIV runs well with 2 GTX460 in SLI it performed very badly with my GTX295.
worst 550€ i've ever spent in my life.

as for your strange noises, can't help you there, i know a few ppl running on 1-2x 5870's and they don't have those problems.

My 5870 was overclocked.... and my 6990 i turned on the bios2 switch which puts the core speed at 880mhz. I think i didn't have that noise when my 5870 was a stock speed but then again no other game then FFXIV made my card do that either.... it is very strange....


I checked you link and i did try previously to rename the game.exe to something else to trigger CF profile but i didn't see any difference. So is the poor performance of FFXIV on CF rigs due to SE's lack of programming knowledge or to AMD's lack of CF profile for FFXIV??

[Black_Rose]

in such cases everyone is at fault, SE for making cards howl alot more due to an unoptimized engine, and AMD/Nvidia for lacking driver updates to help with the games performance.
i mean, it took nvidia just 6 months to get us a driver which doesn't drop our fps down to 10 instantly after activating ambient occlusion.

i guess your best bet is to wait for a newer driver, or try an old version, as the game has no influence on your cards performance.