FFXIV and HD 6990

[Onidemon]

AO as is now, killing your FPS it's not worth it.
it does give a slight difference, but none that is worth it dropping another 5-15 fps for.

as for DoF, yes for those that can run stable with it it's worth it.
i'd still rather have a clear sight, but then again, with the textures blurrying out in the distance DoF surely does give a better view.
with General Drawing Quality and Background Drawing Quality both at highest the view with DoF is at best, but setting both on highest really drains your GPU.

If SE programmed FFXIV properly and had it use your system's resources correctly, you think i could run it on absolute max settings? I mean Crysis and Crysis 2 both look better and i can run these on max settings with Eyefinity resolutions.

[Black_Rose]

probably.
as much i know about AO, i think it's done by the hardware itself if the game runs on DX9, so it would enhance the performance if the game would run on DX10/11.

as for the rest, there is a lot of issues, i think it's within the crystal tools engine, but i'm no expert so i can't verify this.
running FFXIV on max settings would probably be possible, tho some of those settings are purely made to make your system bleed.
the worst of all being general drawing quality, which is actually at max if you use it at 8 (standart), setting it higher just means that the quality will be multiplied with your current desktop resolution.
running at 8 is your exact resolution, running at 9 multiplies it with x1.5 and 10 multiplies even to x2.0, so it's like running the game at x2 of your screen resolution.

but i think those problems will slowly be resolved as have others since the release.
at the release the game performed very badly on my current system, but since then it has improved with every patch and driver update.