FFXIV and HD 6990

[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.

[Steelcyclone]

Ya ffxiv sucks when it comes to duel gpu's. I have 5870 crossfire and run the game 60 fps on med-high settings. With crossfire enable the game runs like crap. When I cast spells it lags, its just all around crap. Have a friend with crossfire 4870's samething with his. Runs fine with a single card but once you crossfire them ffxiv rapes you. As far as weird noises go. I dont recall mine or my friends card making any weird noises while playing the game. (besides the fans kicking into overdrive)

[Lazerus]

im using a Asus Laptop, G73Jh, i have a I-7 720 1.6 - 2.8 GHZ, and a HD 5870 Mobility version ( 1 gig + DDR5 version) ( i think performs close to a desktop 5770 ) and 6 gigs of DDR3 ram.

General Quality( 8 )
Backround Quality ( 5 ) high
Shadows ( Highest )
Texture Quality ( Highest )
Filtering ( Highest ) x 16
Super-Sample
AA - Edge Detect x8/24
Catalyst AI- Standard
Running on 720 resolution ( only becuase 1080 makes UI + text to small >< UI scale can i have it ? )

i get about 23-33 FPS in town, 20-28 in the field and 35-55 FPS in dungeons ( 1080 drops me about 3-6 FPS )

i do OC my 5870 as much as i can ( standard is 699Mhz-1000) i clock it @ 785- 1085

This is with NO Depth of field or Ambient.

Oh also i run Full screen because window mode looks like crap in comparison

[Onidemon]

updated main post, edit #3

[Black_Rose]

40 FPS seems to be pretty okay with those settings.
you could allways increase it to 60, but you would need to set general drawing quality to standart (can easily go to highest with background tho), and perhaps turn the super-sampling off, i noticed that super-sampling AA allways put a heavy weight on my graphics which is why i allways have it off (atleast in FFXIV)

my settings are the same as yours.
besides i have background drawing quality at highest, general drawing quality at standard, AA at 16xQ CSAA (i don't know if ATI is x16 tho), and S-SAA off.
i hit 60 FPS on the fields, and in towns and camps it varies between 60-30 (mostly due to the low load of GPU in towns )
with ambient occlusion i lose around 5-15 FPS on fields, so i can easily use it aswell without much hassle, but i prefer to have it off since i don't see a too big difference.

PS.:

indeed you're running the game rather well, i forgot that you seem to play on 3 screens