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DarkVagabondDarkVagabond Member UncommonPosts: 340
in Final Fantasy XIV

Problem

A multitude of players state that the Beta is "Barely playable" with benchmark scores at or below 2000, which I personally reside in.

Most of those same players list a single Geforce 9800GT as the very minimum required in order to operate this game, which I am also personally using.

Glaring Flaw

I personally had been following a multitude of FFXIV streams, one in which a Japanese user was running an 8800GT, and another where an European user was operating a 9800GT.

In both instances, so far as I could see, they were playing at or above 720p and made use of full shadowing and ambient occlusion.

Question

There seems be some component that is being downplayed massively in regards to the operating efficiency of the FFXIV engine, what is it?

For the Record!

Windows 7 64-bit

AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core processor (4 CPU's), ~2.2GHz

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (DXdiag states Approx. Total Memory 2673 MB, seems odd, I'm probably overlooking something.)

5120MB RAM

Comments

  • HyanmenHyanmen Member UncommonPosts: 5,357

    You need more RAM.

    The benchmark is a bit harsh when it comes to scoring. I think you can make the game work on almost any hardware, but it'll look like crap.

    Using LOL is like saying "my argument sucks but I still want to disagree".
  • striker09dxstriker09dx Member UncommonPosts: 197

    is that a typo or you have 5 gig of ram? if not you need more, as stated above.

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  • DarkVagabondDarkVagabond Member UncommonPosts: 340

    Common sense and experience tells me the RAM talk is trolling, but I've seen far too many individuals that swear by their twelve gigs of RAM to be entirely sure.

  • HyanmenHyanmen Member UncommonPosts: 5,357

    Oh, I didn't see the 0 there =/

    But yeah I don't think you'll have a problem running this game, although you have to lower your settings quite a bit.

    Using LOL is like saying "my argument sucks but I still want to disagree".
  • ArmaniDemonArmaniDemon Member Posts: 133

    The 8800 and 9800 are essentially the same card... so that`s not the greatest comparison there.

    http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

    As to what element contributes the most beyond the GPU; it`s clearly the CPU. FSB speed and ram also contribute immensely in feeding the cpu. 

    I myself jumped 2k points on high res upgrading my 9800gt to a HD5850. Then again my processor and mobo are solid enough: Q9550 @ 3.4 ghz and 8 gigs of 1333ghz. 

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  • LastChimeLastChime Member Posts: 107

    As stated, should play it, will it play it on top settings? Most likely not, but go ahead and try ;) .

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  • TedronaiTedronai Member UncommonPosts: 67

    more ram? I run win64 which u need to go above 4+, is this a recommend os for the game then?

     

    And if u have 5gig btw u have some mismatched rams, but that's another issue ;-)

     

  • spankybusspankybus Member UncommonPosts: 1,367

    4 gigs or Ram is all you need for a 32-bit application. Anything above that is ignored anyways, unless they release a 64-bit version of the Client, which I doubt they will.

     

    That said, 512MB is a joke for a next gen anything.

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  • CharixCharix Member Posts: 5

    4GB of RAM is all a 32-bit application can address.  Why have more?

    Booting my OS alone takes 2.1 GB of RAM.  When I had 4 GB, that left only 1.9GB for a game, which really wanted 3.5, so swap happened.  Increased to 8GB, I can run the game and other background programs without roaming into swap space.  The game gets its whole set. :)

  • TerminxmanTerminxman Member Posts: 3

    Originally posted by striker09dx

    is that a typo or you have 5 gig of ram? if not you need more, as stated above.

    If you actually have 5 gb of RAM, there is no way that's going to hinder your performance. 4gb is still feasible at this point in time. The idea that you need 6gb of RAM to run modern games is a myth. If anything is bottle necking your system it would be your video card. I'm not telling you that you have to upgrade anything, I'll bet the game will run fine on your system with some eye candy. Remember the game is still in beta, there are still performance optimizations that will be done.

  • birdycephonbirdycephon Member UncommonPosts: 1,314

    This game is also highly modular, so there will be features in the final release that you've never seen in beta.

  • EtraEtra Member UncommonPosts: 164

    Originally posted by birdycephon

    This game is also highly modular, so there will be features in the final release that you've never seen in beta.

    This. Let's also not forget the debugger running in the background (which heavily drains your resources.)

    I wouldn't upgrade out of fear. If the game doesn't run well for you at launch, then upgrade. Launch week will probably be a disaster, going by the connectivity issuse going on in beta (or went on.) Just my opinion, though.

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